Hi here is an cutting from the Register about Evesham

TimeUK founder Tahir Mohsan said today he has put the Evesham Technology Ltd brand up for sale, following the departure of the defunct British computer maker’s co-founder and chairman Richard Austin last month.

Mohsan issued a press release today in which he claims that his Dubai-based outfit, PCC Technology, has “successfully completed” the so-called “restructuring” of Evesham Technology Ltd, which had gone into administration in August last year.

Mohsan said: “It is PCC’s objective to seek a buyer for Geemore Technology Limited. The company has been offered to Richard [Austin] but he has decided for his own reasons that this is not the right time for him. If a buyer cannot be found, Geemore intends to continue but the operation may be reduced to a smaller operation with lower overheads, in a controlled and responsible manner, whilst ensuring that customers are not affected.”

Geemore Technology had been created by Mohsan in an attempt to prop up Evesham Technology after the struggling indigenous British system builder went into administration.

Austin, who had stayed on at the firm’s Vale Park headquarters, quit his directorship at Geemore Technology Ltd and was replaced by John Aikman on 4 January.

Meanwhile the Evesham Micros name, under which Evesham Technology had been trading under since Mohsan stepped in, was officially changed to Geemore Technology Ltd on the 14 January, according to records at Companies House.

Although Mohsan said last year he would pump $22m (£11m) – via PCC Technology – into a rescue package for the firm, it wasn’t enough to save the majority of the company’s Worcestershire-based workers, as well as others working in showrooms throughout the UK. Most of them lost their jobs last summer.

The employment axe swung again on the same day that Austin left the firm last month, with only a handful of remaining staff being given temporary contracts to stay on at Vale Park.

Mohsan also claims all customer orders had been “fulfilled or deposits refunded”. He added that “free” support for Evesham kit had now ended.

He said: “It was no longer possible for Evesham to provide free support to its customers. However, PCC was conscious not to leave customers out on a limb without any support so has negotiated reduced rates with Total Care so that customers can take up support should they desire.”

In recent days a number of readers have told The Register that representatives from Total Care And Support Ltd have been offering new warranties to customers for any Evesham-branded kit – at a price.

A rep at Total Care, which is based at the Time Technology Park in Burnley and lists Mohsan's business partner Tariq Mohammed as director, had already confirmed to us that the firm had taken full control of the Evesham Technology customer warranty list.

She said that reps had been contacting individuals to sell them warranties that range from £4.99 to £9.99 a month for Evesham Technology kit that was bought before August last year.

Austin said in today's statement that he was taking a break in his career “as far as IT is concerned” because he lacks the “energy required” to stay in the business.

He refused to provide El Reg with further comment on his departure. Austin also declined to tell us more about his latest business venture, Alqemi Ltd, a new company which he created on 1 February.

We also requested comment from Richard Singleton who is now dealing with all Evesham-related enquires, but he is yet to return our call. ®

I hope this does not muck up your clame against them

Ok pc came back about 20 min ago. Will update later... But it looks like they changed everything but the hard drive!

I will try and post old spec, and new spec as much as possible as im curious if what i have now is A better B worse or C about the same but just different!

Ok first problem was turned it on, couldnt book, tried to change it to boot from hard drive... discovered there was no hard drive! Popped the side of the case off. found the loose plug, plugged the hard drive in, and it booted up.

Ok so far Ive noticed, instead of taking about 6 mins to boot up, it takes about 20 seconds. (yippie)

Changes as follows Before After

Instead of 2x Nvidia 6800 GT (256mb) graphics cards,

I have 2x Nvidia Winfast PX8600 GTS TDH High def directx 10 ready (256mb) graphics cards which came with a couple of free games and are apparently vista certified.


Instead of AMD athlon 64 processor 3800+

Now i have AMD Athlon 64 x2 duel core processor 6000+ MMX (2cCPUs)

Instead of 2x 512mb DDR RAM (PC3200) 400MHz
I have 1x 1GB DDR2- SD Ram (pc2-6400) DDR2 800 4400mhz
Which means i have an extra slot and instead of buying 2x 1GB ram sticks and disposing of the old 512's i can just buy one 1GB one

The motherboard has also changed but I'm not sure what it was before, or what it is now yet

The case, DVD player, DVD writer, all of the fans, the memory card reader, the sound card and the processor are all also brand new ( but of the same type as before)


Not bad going i guess!!! Expecially as in their letter they pretty much said "hard luck"

That must be a great relief to you and that they have upgraded it quite a bit. If you want to know what what hardware and software and software updates you now have now try this site www.belarc.com/free_download.html Good luck with your new PC hope nothing else goes wrong with it. Didn't you do well.

wow, wish something like that would happen for me

well done , that letter did sound like they were refusing to do anything about it!!

Well done Claire, persistents paid off in the end

Well since the PC came back from Evesham i have only used it for about 3 hours as i have been busy beyond relief ( uni work, 2 shows and a puppy= no free time)
Yesterday my mum wanted to borrow my computer as its downstairs and hers is upstairs ( she was watching the puppy for me while i was out), pushed the power button...and...wait for it....

Huge BANG, flash of sparks coming out the tower and a smell of burning plastic and that was that. Thing is now dead as a door nail!

Everything else connected to the surge protector is working fine and it detected no power surge so Eveshams shoddy work comes into light again!

Oh no not againI feel so sorry for you, you have persevered with it longer than would have. I think I would call it quits and get a Dell, HP or even better go to a local dealer and get them to build you one with the specification that you require.

I cant afford to replace it, expecially not as i need a new laptop. Just means no videogames for the forceable future and ive lost all the files on it for the time being i guess!