May. 2013.. The longest month... In the history.... Of the world.....

[Solace]

While I can hardly wait until phase 3 starts (and keep sighing when I look at the calendar), my mind is more occupied with wondering if my month old pc that has worked all of 3 days will be fixed by the start of phase 3.

Oh nooeess. Well, I hope you get it figured out.
Here is a very helpful group of people.
Tell them your problem and they can almost certainly figure it out.
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/
Been going there for years.

Yea I also tried some other MMO's like GW.. Just doesn't seem to cut it.
I felt the same..
Like I was playing a game meant for 8 year olds.
No real feeling of a living and breathing community.
FF is where the heart is I guess.

[LlenCoram]

If the game isn't out by June 9th, I'll have the new Animal Crossing by then. My plans are to recreate Limsa as much as I can.

I'll even be able to fish!

[finiteHP]

Oh nooeess. Well, I hope you get it figured out.
Here is a very helpful group of people.
Tell them your problem and they can almost certainly figure it out.
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/
Been going there for years.

I'll keep that place in mind when I next have problems. Right now it's a case of waiting for ASUS RMA department to get around to looking at my computer. I knew it was a mistake to be lazy this time around and buy a pre-built computer. If anyone wants to see the full story of this whole sordid experience, I've hidden it below since it's long.

The last time I bought a pre-built was about 13 years ago. The two computers between then and my latest were built for me by a local company. I was going to get them to build me a new one, but I got lazy and thought by a pre-built one from ASUS would be fine especially since it has a 3.9GHz Intel Core i7-3770K, 16GB RAM, 3TB hard disk drive + 128GB SSD, and a GTX 680. I bought it from Staples (the only place that has computers that good here) on Friday May 10th. Set it up on the 11th and discovered that apparently sometime in the last 13 years pc makers stopped including installation/recovery cds. It's now on a recovery partition. Computer worked fine for 2.5 days (until Monday afternoon) and then booted up into a generic admin account where I would get an error about windows not being installed correctly which would reboot the computer and give me the error in an endless loop. I called ASUS tech support and they instructed me to access the recover partition on boot up (spam F9 as it boots). All that would give me was a nice light blue screen with no text or hard drive activity. "That's not supposed to happen" was their response. Really? Who'd have thought. Subsequent reboots without touching any keys would either just take me to that nice blue screen or give me an error (can't remember what it said off the top of my head. Something about an error while booting). They told me I should take it back to Staples. I did the next day and their techs looked at it. No idea how qualified their techs are, but they phoned later in the day to tell me that they couldn't do anything with it. It baffled them, all the other techs they know, and the techs at ASUS that they contacted. They asked if I wanted a refund since the computer obviously had something very wrong with it or try sending it to ASUS to see if they could fix it. I chose refund in a heartbeat. A few hours later I got a call saying that returns had denied the refund since the computer isn't in resalable condition. They sold me a computer that breaks within 72 hours and won't take it back because they couldn't sell it 'open box'. So I contact ASUS support again and am told that all they can do is have me send it to their RMA department to look at on my dime. Wednesday morning I head over to Staples, haul the box over to the in-store Purolator Courier desk (a Canadian courier company) and pay 60 bucks to ship the carcass to ASUS. Tracking info says they got it Monday the 13th. Now I just wait (a week so far!) to see what comes next. Never again will I buy a pre-built computer.

On the plus side, I got a French Canadian keyboard (lots of keys are in totally different spots but not in the same places ad French keyboards) out of all of this. Too bad I last spoke French in Grade 6 18 years ago.

[Coris]

I'll keep that place in mind when I next have problems. Right now it's a case of waiting for ASUS RMA department to get around to looking at my computer. I knew it was a mistake to be lazy this time around and buy a pre-built computer. If anyone wants to see the full story of this whole sordid experience, I've hidden it below since it's long.

The last time I bought a pre-built was about 13 years ago. The two computers between then and my latest were built for me by a local company. I was going to get them to build me a new one, but I got lazy and thought by a pre-built one from ASUS would be fine especially since it has a 3.9GHz Intel Core i7-3770K, 16GB RAM, 3TB hard disk drive + 128GB SSD, and a GTX 680. I bought it from Staples (the only place that has computers that good here) on Friday May 10th. Set it up on the 11th and discovered that apparently sometime in the last 13 years pc makers stopped including installation/recovery cds. It's now on a recovery partition. Computer worked fine for 2.5 days (until Monday afternoon) and then booted up into a generic admin account where I would get an error about windows not being installed correctly which would reboot the computer and give me the error in an endless loop. I called ASUS tech support and they instructed me to access the recover partition on boot up (spam F9 as it boots). All that would give me was a nice light blue screen with no text or hard drive activity. "That's not supposed to happen" was their response. Really? Who'd have thought. Subsequent reboots without touching any keys would either just take me to that nice blue screen or give me an error (can't remember what it said off the top of my head. Something about an error while booting). They told me I should take it back to Staples. I did the next day and their techs looked at it. No idea how qualified their techs are, but they phoned later in the day to tell me that they couldn't do anything with it. It baffled them, all the other techs they know, and the techs at ASUS that they contacted. They asked if I wanted a refund since the computer obviously had something very wrong with it or try sending it to ASUS to see if they could fix it. I chose refund in a heartbeat. A few hours later I got a call saying that returns had denied the refund since the computer isn't in resalable condition. They sold me a computer that breaks within 72 hours and won't take it back because they couldn't sell it 'open box'. So I contact ASUS support again and am told that all they can do is have me send it to their RMA department to look at on my dime. Wednesday morning I head over to Staples, haul the box over to the in-store Purolator Courier desk (a Canadian courier company) and pay 60 bucks to ship the carcass to ASUS. Tracking info says they got it Monday the 13th. Now I just wait (a week so far!) to see what comes next. Never again will I buy a pre-built computer.

On the plus side, I got a French Canadian keyboard (lots of keys are in totally different spots but not in the same places ad French keyboards) out of all of this. Too bad I last spoke French in Grade 6 18 years ago.

Read your story.... what the f is happening D:
Seems ridiculous to me for them not taking it back... Here (GER) they have to do it (I think), even after such a short time! Hope everything will be fine soon!
I guess the PC wasn't cheap, that is why I thought "Why don't they directly sell a Windows 7 with it?"
I am using a selfbuild too (first one ever) and recommended this way to my friends, but when another friend from Spain looked for a new system, we had to go for prebuilds because he had no one down there to help him since he never put it together on his own. We checked the opportunites in local stores but ended up on Amazon and even found some nice setups and all of them were shipped with an OS.

[Solace]

I'll keep that place in mind when I next have problems. Right now it's a case of waiting for ASUS RMA department to get around to looking at my computer. I knew it was a mistake to be lazy this time around and buy a pre-built computer. If anyone wants to see the full story of this whole sordid experience, I've hidden it below since it's long.

The last time I bought a pre-built was about 13 years ago. The two computers between then and my latest were built for me by a local company. I was going to get them to build me a new one, but I got lazy and thought by a pre-built one from ASUS would be fine especially since it has a 3.9GHz Intel Core i7-3770K, 16GB RAM, 3TB hard disk drive + 128GB SSD, and a GTX 680. I bought it from Staples (the only place that has computers that good here) on Friday May 10th. Set it up on the 11th and discovered that apparently sometime in the last 13 years pc makers stopped including installation/recovery cds. It's now on a recovery partition. Computer worked fine for 2.5 days (until Monday afternoon) and then booted up into a generic admin account where I would get an error about windows not being installed correctly which would reboot the computer and give me the error in an endless loop. I called ASUS tech support and they instructed me to access the recover partition on boot up (spam F9 as it boots). All that would give me was a nice light blue screen with no text or hard drive activity. "That's not supposed to happen" was their response. Really? Who'd have thought. Subsequent reboots without touching any keys would either just take me to that nice blue screen or give me an error (can't remember what it said off the top of my head. Something about an error while booting). They told me I should take it back to Staples. I did the next day and their techs looked at it. No idea how qualified their techs are, but they phoned later in the day to tell me that they couldn't do anything with it. It baffled them, all the other techs they know, and the techs at ASUS that they contacted. They asked if I wanted a refund since the computer obviously had something very wrong with it or try sending it to ASUS to see if they could fix it. I chose refund in a heartbeat. A few hours later I got a call saying that returns had denied the refund since the computer isn't in resalable condition. They sold me a computer that breaks within 72 hours and won't take it back because they couldn't sell it 'open box'. So I contact ASUS support again and am told that all they can do is have me send it to their RMA department to look at on my dime. Wednesday morning I head over to Staples, haul the box over to the in-store Purolator Courier desk (a Canadian courier company) and pay 60 bucks to ship the carcass to ASUS. Tracking info says they got it Monday the 13th. Now I just wait (a week so far!) to see what comes next. Never again will I buy a pre-built computer.

On the plus side, I got a French Canadian keyboard (lots of keys are in totally different spots but not in the same places ad French keyboards) out of all of this. Too bad I last spoke French in Grade 6 18 years ago.

Yea that sucks..
There are just too many people working in the computer industry now a days, that don't know shit about computers imo.
Tech support? lol as if..
Prebuilts are soo dangerous, you never know who built it.
Maybe he accidentally shot sparks across your PC by grounding some wire out..
Maybe they used it as a display model for a while and messed it up/overclocked it to near death..
Idk. I just don't trust it..
I build my own now.

Yea I read your story too.
They should definitely refund your money.
That's just beyond ridiculous.

[Rex]

Really? This month has gone very quick for me.

But then again. I'm hard at work (at actual work AND XI...I've done more work in XI this month than I have in years. ;p)...

...It's also my birthday on May 27th. When NA SE has a day off! Woo! Come party with me SE!

[Nikkita]

Pfft. Hardcores have all threads in new posts fully read, all threads in English forums perused and have started using google translate to read the foreign language threads out of boredom.

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Google translate blows. I wait for Reinhart to post anything worth while... it's just.. not... worth... the effort......

[Solace]

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Google translate blows. I wait for Reinhart to post anything worth while... it's just.. not... worth... the effort......

Yea, I've used all kinds of translators. Try Clownfish and Qtranslate.
They always come up lacking though.
I play some sims with people I can't understand sometime and I have ended up saying some very funny things..lol..

[TamjiN]

The days are long but it will all be worth it at the end. New letter coming out -> Beta phase 3 -> Trailer at e3 and hopefully more!

[Solace]

The days are long but it will all be worth it at the end. New letter coming out -> Beta phase 3 -> Trailer at e3 and hopefully more!

Yea I heard we would get an update at the "End of May".
I am dieing to see that update.
I hope they aren't pushing back phase 3.
If they do though, such is life..