[ltp] Linux friendly repair shops in San Francisco?

[James Knott]

Tod Harter wrote:
> On Friday 20 February 2004 6:19 pm, James Knott wrote:
> 
>>Bill Barnard wrote:
>>
>>>I have a T30 which has been running Linux very nicely for a couple years
>>>now. It probably needs a system board repair or replacement because it
>>>no longer recognizes the second 256 MB memory module I bought for it.
>>>(Both modules test good by the slot swapping method.)
>>>
>>>Can anyone on the list recommend a repair shop in the San Francisco,
>>>California area with which they've had a good experience?
>>
>>A repair shop doesn't have to be "Linux friendly", as they shouldn't be
>>touching the data on the disk without your approval.
> 
> 
> Yeah, well most of your ordinary local repair shops are going to want to test 
> the system, and they would most likely boot it into whatever is on the hard 
> drive. Thus the tech is going to pretty much immediately be stumped. Maybe 
> nowadays things are different, but any time I was a PC tech I sure HATED it 
> when the clients system was something stupid I couldn't at least bring up 
> once and verify it worked.

A competent repair shop should have a disk they can use to test with. 
You do not do anything that may damage the clients software or data, 
unless you have permission.