Well it's not really a war. It's not even a battle. It more like a fight you have with your sister. You know the one. You piss her off and she gets back at you by not talking to you. That's right, The Silent Treatment.

So I can't tell if Compaq is angry with me (for buying one of their defective computers no doubt) or is just plain incompetent. How many voice mail messages can you leave with the promise of a return call within 2 hours during regular business operations before you assume the worst when your call is not returned?

For my part, all I want is simple. I want them to replace the lemon they sold me with a new laptop so I can turn around and sell it to someone else which wiill allow me to buy a computer from a company that actually can make a computer that works the way it is supposed to. Someone like Dell.

I don't even know what possessed me to buy a Compaq in the first place. It must have been the thin air in Colorado. Anyway, the poor thing is in the shop at the moment, for god knows how long, and I have no hope that they are going to replace it or even fix it.