self 0, technojinx 352

Right, well, allow me to say that Café Viva in Claremont are, for purposes of computer repairs, rather worse than useless. They have just taken a week to look at my dad's computer, which is simultaneously screwed by a dodgy hard drive and an overdose of viruses. They have told me something different every time I've phoned them, including that the hard drive has been physically damaged by the viruses, which is to the best of my knowledge technically bollocks; they have been unable to install a new hard drive because the motherboard uses the old connections and they have no idea of when their shipment of old-style hard drives will arrive. This evening they crowned their achievements by informing me that the machine would boot up but wouldn't load XP, which is the reason I brought it to them in the first place, at which point I distinguished myself by having a hysterical crying bout in the middle of their shop floor. I then reclaimed the computer and stalked out, weeping gustily. At least they didn't have the gall to charge me anything.

I haven't been able to research computer repair facilities because the campus internet has been down all afternoon, score yet another one for the techno-jinx. I would be grateful if Capetonian technogeeks could recommend me a computer repair place within my approximate vicinity which won't actually drive me to homicidal despair.