BICTIA

BICTIA, Buy It Cheap, Throw It Away. If you follow this advice that we champion here at ThirdPipe you avoid items like this below –

COLUMBUS, Ohio - It’s a simple process we do every day. But when you turn your computer on and something’s not right, you know right away.

There are plenty of options to get computers fixed for a price, Consumer 10’s Chuck Strickler reported.

Consumer 10 asked 10TV’s IT guy, Josh Waibel, to create a simple problem on a laptop computer. He changed one setting in what’s called the BIOS - a key program that ties together all hardware on the computer. It is an easy fix in about 30 seconds for someone who knows what he or she is doing, Strickler reported.

“This is definitely something you can find out while you’re doing your diagnostics or troubleshooting,” Waibel said.

So we thought. Consumer 10 sent a producer to take the disabled laptop to a Circuit City and its Firedog service.

When your compute device is as cheap as you can get it calling in these guys does not make sense. On a $250 desktop, throwing $70-100 on the problem is not not a great application of your funds. Watch video for a little humor. Fact is you would pay these guys for their time and some could not fix it.

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