Sam may well be correct.

There was a great article in a recent British computer magazine in which the publisher did an expose of computer repair shops in England. The fault they created was unseating a RAM bank in a laptop!

incidentally, the article said only one of many shops fixed it without doing anything wrong. Some shops fixed it immediately, then said the customer needed a new motherboard. One charged for a new motherboard but did not install it. And several shops went on to look at passwords, bank account numbers, and erotic pictures that were planted on the laptop. The test included software that turned on the camera when the computer was booted, and recorded what happened. Not very reassuring.


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