Ryoki wrote:I have no idea, but i'll use this thread to voice my disdain about those pig fuckers at dell:
I got one of their Dell Dimensions fairly recently and it started BSOD'ing on me, with increasing regularity. As far as i could find out, it had something to do with the drivers of the graphics card being incompatible with Vista, or something ridiculous like that... but i may be wrong completely about that, no idea. This remains a very obscure sort of mystery to me. Installing the latest (and correct) drivers didn't help whatsoever. This was a huge annoyance, but not a tragedy. What came next, however, was.
Suddenly my hard drive starts making these 'whirrrr-clunk' noises and i get ocassional freeze ups. I found this very worrying. Then, this weekend i start that bastard up and the screen stays ominously black... nothing will work, not even a boot with the windows CDROM. It doesn't even make those hidious 'whirrr-clunk' sounds anymore. It tells me it's unable to boot up, and that it can't find it's harddrive, which doesn't help.
So i call Dell and explain what has happened and find out those heartless swine simply refuse to help me (or even tell me whether i'm only slighty fucked or proper fucked) without having me present at the computer, complying with their self-repair instructions and reading out labels printed on the side of my PC case. And their helpdesk opening times are workdays only, till five in the afternoon... so it looks like i'm going to have to take an afternoon off for this complete fucking bullshit.
Goddamnit.
We discovered within a few hours that Dell's Vista image is completely unstable and unusable
Dave wrote:We discovered within a few hours that Dell's Vista image is completely unstable and unusable
Say what? Dell computers with Vista are inherently shit?
They're sending me a new hard drive as we speak, it should arrive tomorrow... i was hoping that would help. But no dice?
Dave wrote:We discovered within a few hours that Dell's Vista image is completely unstable and unusable
Say what? Dell computers with Vista are inherently shit?
They're sending me a new hard drive as we speak, it should arrive tomorrow... i was hoping that would help. But no dice?
I have a Dell Laptop with Vista and Linux and it seems pretty stable to me.
