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| asdf Dell: RAM & HDD =/= motherboard |
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| Visage:
I predict the guy will say something like "OMG U OPEND YOUR COMP AND PUT IN RAM WE GAVE U? WARRANTY VOIDED BITCH GTFO!" |
| zz_tophat:
--- Quote from: Truce on November 20, 2009, 01:16:06 PM ---No no, even if it started out with that as the problem, the motherboard is whack now. You can't even go past the language selection when you try to install any version of Windows. Ubuntu can't even be loaded on it without it yelling at you. Hopefully Dell will comply sooner or later and send us a new motherboard; the laptop's great otherwise and I'd prefer not to have to buy a new one this holiday season. --- End quote --- Your first problem is that you got a blue screen, in vista and W7 blue screen almost always means hardware failure. hardware failure = bad, vera vera bawd. It should be more common knowledge (but isn't) that if you do something to get a blue screen in those OS's DO NOT DO IT AGAIN. In other words what could have been a redeemable software/hardware conflict turned in to motherboard melting clusterforget because you repeated the mistake. I won't ask how many times you unplugged your laptop and experienced the blue screen, just know that every time you did you moved one step farther from the "wait for patch" zone and a step further towards sapping your own sentry. |
| Miga:
--- Quote from: zz_tophat on November 20, 2009, 01:42:49 PM ---Your first problem is that you got a blue screen, in vista and W7 blue screen almost always means hardware failure. hardware failure = bad, vera vera bawd. It should be more common knowledge (but isn't) that if you do something to get a blue screen in those OS's DO NOT DO IT AGAIN. In other words what could have been a redeemable software/hardware conflict turned in to motherboard melting clusterforget because you repeated the mistake. I won't ask how many times you unplugged your laptop and experienced the blue screen, just know that every time you did you moved one step farther from the "wait for patch" zone and a step further towards sapping your own sentry. --- End quote --- Yeah, but he even said that stuff happens in Ubuntu, which is very unusual, seeing as how my IBM ThinkPad T40 used to BSOD almost every 4 seconds because anything DirectX-related would make the GPU drivers crash, and Ubuntu hasn't done anything that bad yet. |
| zz_tophat:
--- Quote from: Miga on November 20, 2009, 01:45:24 PM ---Yeah, but he even said that stuff happens in Ubuntu, which is very unusual, seeing as how my IBM ThinkPad T40 used to BSOD almost every 4 seconds because anything DirectX-related would make the GPU drivers crash, and Ubuntu hasn't done anything that bad yet. --- End quote --- He would not have Installed Ubuntu unless he had already failed trying to re-install W7. Meaning everything was already crapped up in there before he tried to install it. |
| D3ATH:
Software can't forget up your hardware. |
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