I am very sad to have to give this establishment a one star, because up until about a year ago,…read morethey were THE place to get your computer work done in the local area. I have been a loyal customer for them since they opened in 2012, and they were awesome... completely professional, stood behind their work, and when they said it would be done by a certain date, by God they were done by that date. But in the past year or so, I've had them work on my computer three times, and all three times I've had fairly large problems with their work.
The first time, I needed my Steam account fixed, and after doing God knows what with my computer for a full month, they ended up completely formatting all of my hard drives and starting from scratch because they couldn't figure out what was wrong. But they didn't put anything back as it was, so I had to spend several hours reinstalling and putting everything back the way it was. As well, for some reason, they also undid the overclocking and other special changes needed for my computer. It fixed the problem, but... a full month, and they gave me back a blank computer. Gee... thanks. I could have formatted my hard drives myself, if that was all you were going to do, why did I pay you a couple hundred bucks to type "Format C:"? I wanted it fixed, not delete the entire damn thing!
The second time, I asked them to physically clean my computer inside and out, fix some audio issues I was having with the new gear I'd purchased, and give me some estimates on some graphic card upgrades. They didn't clean the computer (I had to wait another hour after they called me to pick it up for them to clean it), the audio issues weren't fixed (I ended up having to hire someone else to do it), and apparently their idea of "estimates" was "Ummm... I don't know, what did you want to buy?" Great customer service there, eh?
Now, finally, I just picked up my computer from them for the last time, and this is the final straw. I had to go out of state to Illinois for five days, so I gave my computer to them to overclock and speed up, do whatever they could to make it as efficient and fast as possible, fix an intermittent problem I was having where the computer would pause and freeze up for about 30 seconds or so before fixing itself, and physically clean it. They had five days to do it... I was assured it would take no more than two, so it would be ready when I got back. Well...
First of all, they said they couldn't work on my computer while was in Illinois, because I had to bring in the computer's power cord. I've never had to bring in my power cords in the entire time I've been with Manteca Computer Services... in fact, the previous owner specifically requested we didn't. So according to them, they couldn't work on it until I brought in my power cord. What kind of computer shop doesn't have power cords? I've never even heard of that with any computer shop ever... it's the most basic thing to have! So the first five days... worthless. Well, still... they could clean it, right?
Nope. I brought them the power cord when I got back from Illinois, and for the next week they had my computer. Never mind that they said it would take two days, they had it for a week. I picked up the computer... it was dirty. I asked if they had cleaned it, and the technician looked at me as if it was the first he'd heard of it. He checked the tag... sure enough, he was supposed to clean it. Well, I didn't have time to wait around for an hour, so I took the computer anyway. He said he couldn't fix the intermittent problem, but he'd overclocked the computer.
I got back home, set it all back up, and checked to see if it had been overclocked (I know how to check it, I just don't know how to do it). It hadn't been touched. As well, my first hard drive had originally be partitioned into a C: and D: drive... for some reason, they had deleted the D: drive. Why? There was no reason whatsoever to even touch it, why was it gone? I fired up some programs, including some very graphic-heavy ones... zero difference in how it performed before. So what the hell did they do to my computer during the two weeks they had my computer, other than delete my D: drive which I didn't want them to do?
So I take the computer back in, the owner tells me I'm at the front of the line, and they'll fix it immediately. Total lie. I called them two days later for an update, and they hadn't even looked at it yet. The technician had to ask me what was wrong with it... AGAIN! I took the computer back (by this point, I'm done with them), and at least this time it was clean. No overclocking, error still happening, D: drive still deleted. I basically paid them to break my computer.
You used to be the best, MCS... get your shit together!
