Actually one thing I will say about dells is that they are built "clean",
meaning the insides of the tower and nicely put together. SOunds stupid butif
you have ever changed ram out of a dell and say out of an HP then you'll know
what I am talking about. It's just to bad that they don't work for
>But they're DESIGNED in Cupertino... and that makes all the difference? ;^)
that must be it!
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> -Original Message-
> From: Bill Wheatley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 8:26 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Dealing with a Dell Lemon
>
> Apple computers are all built by the same little chinese kids as dell
> :)
But they're
Apple computers are all built by the same little chinese kids as dell :)
I have a couple friends with apples that were fucked over just the same as
dell fucks windows people over. There are even defects in some of apples
laptops that cause streaking of colors etc.
Just saying this so people don't
first off, I wasnt starting a os war.. just stating how I fixed my dell issue.
@mary
I hear ya too and not saying you need to go switch.. just saying that was my
solution. I realized that no matter what I did that hunk-o-junk just wasn't
going to work. Forking out the $$ hurts at first for a mac
Don't most computer parts come from like, the same places?
Maybe it's more about testing... eh.. I often wonder. but not enough
to really dig in there and find out. Or else I forgot.
You know, I love OS X and all... but Mint is more kick-ass for what I do.
My MacBook Pro is nice, but the keyboa
> Then one day a support guy told me the secret... first when you call
> immediately ask for a level 2 manager & if there are more than 3
> support issues they must give you a new one, which of course they
> don't tell you but if you bring it up they "suddenly" remember it.
> It's been a few ye
sounds like the problems I was having with mine except mine would crap out bout
once a month and i'd loose everything, it because a ritual to do the monthly
re-install.
Dell would send people out or suggest to re-install it every time, thanks dell
that was very fuckin helpful!
Then one day a s
right -- also double-check your power strip if any and consider
swapping out your power supply.
On 7/17/08, Mary Jo Sminkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hmm for what it is worth in the A+ curriuculum they teach that random
> >wierd errors often have to do with the power supply, and I don't see
>
>Hmm for what it is worth in the A+ curriuculum they teach that random
>wierd errors often have to do with the power supply, and I don't see
>you mentioning that you have ruled this out. It would probably be
>cheap to get a spare part from your local mom and pop computer repair
>shop to test this,
>Again though, I have business support and it may make all the difference in
>the world.
Yeah, I think I'm just normal home support, being a freelancer I don't have a
business account with them.
MJS
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Hmm for what it is worth in the A+ curriuculum they teach that random
wierd errors often have to do with the power supply, and I don't see
you mentioning that you have ruled this out. It would probably be
cheap to get a spare part from your local mom and pop computer repair
shop to test this, if yo
Are you home support or business support?
I was able to gripe and gripe very loudly with a long list of repeated
issues until they finally caved and sent me a new one. I also had Next
Business Day business support and a line of email communication with a dell
support rep that "took ownership" of t
> How is Dell support? Have you suggested to them that it might just be
> cheaper for all involved if they send you a new system and you send
> the lemon back to them? Just a thought...
Ha, you bet I have. They don't care, by far the greatest expenditure of time is
on my end. I griped about it on
>What kind of coverage do you have ... ?
Just the typical tech support plan, which does include on-site support if they
do need to replace something.
>And yeah, unfortunately, reformatting will be necessary before they even
>think about replacement for any reason. :/
Well, I'm in the process
What kind of coverage do you have ... ?
And yeah, unfortunately, reformatting will be necessary before they even
think about replacement for any reason. :/
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Mary Jo Sminkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> No, I don't believe I do. It may take that stroll one of the
> I just mentioned it because I would have sworn to a 99% level that it
> was the HD or motherboard, but it turned out to be bad memory.
I'll definitely keep it in mind if I can't track it down to something else.
> Maybe something will go horribly wrong with the hardware that they'll
> just hav
How is Dell support? Have you suggested to them that it might just be
cheaper for all involved if they send you a new system and you send
the lemon back to them? Just a thought...
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Mary Jo wrote:
> Well, my struggles with this crappy Dell system continue. It's been
Ah, well, since it sounds like you've rather eliminated the RAM,
probably isn't that.
I just mentioned it because I would have sworn to a 99% level that it
was the HD or motherboard, but it turned out to be bad memory.
Maybe something will go horribly wrong with the hardware that they'll
just hav
>If it weren't so intermittent, I'd say do the old, pull a stick, see
>if it's stable. If not, eliminate another stick. Rinse, wash,
>repeat. That might hurt you too much tho. I know that at the time,
>dropping back to a single gig, and running eclipse and DBs and
>everything, was rather painfu
I had something similar (something I thought was HD-ish) that turned
out to be a bad stick of RAM.
If it weren't so intermittent, I'd say do the old, pull a stick, see
if it's stable. If not, eliminate another stick. Rinse, wash,
repeat. That might hurt you too much tho. I know that at the tim
>What error messages are thrown by the BSOD?
Fairly sure they have all just been a page fault error, no file is referenced.
I wrote down the last one but that was a few weeks ago, before I was off on
vacation and can't find it now. The crashes have been pretty random, but as far
as I've been ab
Wait for it, wait for it... upgrade to Vista, that will fix it!
Sorry, I just couldn't resist.
I will note that I was running my HP TC4400 tablet on XP until the
disk crashed. I am running Vista Business now. In many ways it is a
huge PITA, but last week Microsoft released an update that finally
: Dealing with a Dell Lemon
Well, my struggles with this crappy Dell system continue. It's been pretty
unstable for months now, randomly throwing BSOD errors and most recently
caused my entire email inbox to disappear. Thankfully I'm obsessive about
backing up so have yet to have any real
Well, my struggles with this crappy Dell system continue. It's been pretty
unstable for months now, randomly throwing BSOD errors and most recently caused
my entire email inbox to disappear. Thankfully I'm obsessive about backing up
so have yet to have any real data loss that I couldn't recover,
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