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Solve : Dell? Not much of a fan any more.? |
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Answer» I bought a Dell Dimension 5100C about 3 years ago. I have had nothing but trouble with it. It wold loose all sorts of stuff, modem ,pointer things like that. Support would have me put every thing back to where it was when I bought it and have me unplug cables and plug them back in then send out a teck to replace a part. I bet over the last 3 months I have spent more than 30 hours with support. They have replaced the motherboard three times, the modem five, the fan and the heatsink. The last time the teck was out here he replaced the modem and that didn't fix the problem and he got them to replace the computer. I guess he got tired of coming out here. It is a long way from the city. The new computer got here three DAYS ago. They didn't consult me about any thing. They sent a InSpiron 530S. It has Vista for the OS. It is much bigger than the old one so it looks like *censored* one the desk. Then it has much better cooling than the old one because of the size and the EXTRA fan. It don't get NEAR as hot as the old one did. It has a 500 gig hard drive and best of all it has a card modem and not that postage stamp looking modem. It has a card reader insted of a 3.5 floppy, the wife has a lot o f stuff on floppy. I guess that I will pick up a usb 3.5 floppy. When I bought the old one the CPU was top end, I paid extra for it, I got a 2200 duel core with this one. I know that it is much better than what I had but it is a long way from top end. This was the third time I was told that the computer would be replaced. I told the wife that I will believe it when it shows up. It is hear and I am not sure if I like it or should call them try to get it replaced with some thing else. I told the teck that I didn't wont any thing that wold be proprietary. I am told that the motherboard is. I know that the PSU is. I guess that I should be happy that they replaced it at last. In short I would have never have bought this computer. Then from now on I will never buy an off the shelf computer anyway. What would you do? What are my options? Oh the old computer had Windows XP Pro. I do like XP. May be I am just use to it. Vista seems to run smoother and faster than XP.Sorry that you're unhappy, but, it seems to me that Dell did a wonderful job. Sometimes it just easier to build your own. Dell stuff is all sensitive any how. If the mb fails you have to get the exact, but if a differnt one fails then as long as it meets some of the specs you want you can get an even better one or faster cpu or something. What does this mean ? ?saing that you can upgrade a custom pc but its hard to upgrade a dell.Upgrading a Dell is as easy as any other machine provided the right parts are purchased... I think you meant to say that Dell uses a lot of propietary parts which means they need to be replaced with Dell products...Yeah thats what I was tring to get at. Like HP's, Compaq ......dell's are not good. Watch this video and you will see why...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIk5gjc5318Quote from: paudashlake on July 30, 2008, 08:01:14 PM dell's are not good. Watch this video and you will see why...... when something bad happens to somebody, obviously somebody must be at fault. If someone leaves their oven on and their house burns down, do they sue the company that manufactures the oven? No, because it is their own mistake. If somebody leaves their computer on all night to download torrents of recently released movies, completely ignoring the fact that speedfan is telling them to shut down or it will overheat, and it catches fire, god forbid it be the fault of that person who made the conscious decision at some point to leave the computer on. I found the music made me think of africa and third world countries, not a middle-class person in a sue-happy country, looking to blame somebody but themselves for their own misfortune. Computers generate heat, often lots. They require plenty of airspace in and around the case and especially fan holes, and they should be kept fairly far away from flammable materials, like oil-soaked rags or LIGHTER fluid. Much like the aforementioned oven. You won't find people carelessy placing paper on the elements of a stove, so why do I so often see people block their monitors/computers intake vents with paper and other materials? I've seen them covered with stickers for goodness sake, and they can't seem to figure out why their computer keeps overheating. OK- I'm done now. The main point I'm trying to make here is A: how do they know the computer started it, and B:would they be suing their furnace company if a bunch of dust-bunnies in the registers caught fire? Probably not.Not exactly clear as to what was causal in that slide show - nice music, though. Just found out last night that the processor (T7200 Core 2 Duo) in my wife's laptop can go to 100C! Holy Toledo! Even an American knows that's the boiling point of water! Computers are not toys.the processor in my computer (amd xp-m) can go to 102c THAT'S HOT!! |
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