I praise dell NO MORE

[somdebay]

Stuff I have no idea about? You just lost yourself alot of credibility. At least my DELL laptops work.

I lost credibility with who, YOU? you have just as much credibility as slappy...dude, COME ONNNNN!

 

[FromTexas]

I am sitting there on my laptop at my desk, out of no where while checking my e-mail my hard drive starts to click...my computer shuts down, my hard drive is dead. AND because my warranty is up DELL wants to charge me $40 for a phone call! **** DELL! it was only 2 years old

You are the one who chose the most basic warranty service Dell offers that doesn't provide you continued phone support and parts service. Also, if you know its the hard drive why do you need phone support? To tell you its crashed and they will have to charge you for a new drive if you want one? shrug:

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

You are the one who chose the most basic warranty service Dell offers that doesn't provide you continued phone support and parts service. Also, if you know its the hard drive why do you need phone support? To tell you its crashed and they will have to charge you for a new drive if you want one? :shrug:

Because he's a moron who wants to complain about it to DELL so somebody there who doesn't care can listen to him, even though a hard drive costs all of $20 to replace.

Anybody who works in tech and knows alot about computers, like somdmoron claims to, knows DELL is not a great company when it comes to customer service. ####, I found that out years ago...

And at least I know how to back-up files to CDs, DVDs, External Hard drives, Flash memory, etc. I do this often - that's why I don't cry when a hard drive dies on me.

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

yeah no kidding, after the HD took a crap, I attempted to start up a few times just to be sure thats what it was, then I go a dell screen saying i needed to contact dell to get a password to get access to MY data...they wanted to charge me $40 for that...um thanks but no thanks, i can re-rip all of my music.

Or you can get an external hard drive enclosure for a laptop for $10, hook that up to a desktop with DELL HD in it, and rip away. Oh wait, you smashed it up - hoping that somehow the fairy godmother would move your files into molecules into the air and teleport them to your desktop.

I take back my comments about you being a smart guy. I was wrong.

 

[Speedy70]

Duuuude, ya shoulda got a mac.

Agreed.

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

I lost credibility with who, YOU? you have just as much credibility as slappy...dude, COME ONNNNN!

Um, slappy's gone. I'm still in the green. And, my DELL laptop still works.

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

Agreed.

I HATE Macs. I don't know why - I just do. I had a Mac G3, and I absolutely detested it.

I love the handle though - makes for a great BOAT ANCHOR!

 

[RadioPatrol]

I have to Dell Laptops and a Dell Desktop, I haven't had really any major problems with mine. I was smart enough to buy the 4 yr. warranty though. I also got the accidental breakage coverage because I'm a clutz! I agree with itsbob it all depends on the luck of the draw sometimes!

the 4 yr warranty does nothing to replace your data files, kids pics, word docs

 

[Christy]

I am sitting there on my laptop at my desk, out of no where while checking my e-mail my hard drive starts to click...my computer shuts down, my hard drive is dead. AND because my warranty is up DELL wants to charge me $40 for a phone call! **** DELL! it was only 2 years old

*end rant*

so anyways, I'm going to buy a new desktop computer tomorrow at least with those I can change the parts out myself.

Any suggestions?

Good and bad of towers you own?

I have a tendency to crash hardrives, no matter what type of computer it is. I have a stack of them stuffed up in my cabinet for when I get the motivation to send them in to the specialists in order to recover my data.

I've learned to backup, and store all my stuff in a million different places. Redundancy is my friend.

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

I have a tendency to crash hardrives, no matter what type of computer it is. I have a stack of them stuffed up in my cabinet for when I get the motivation to send them in to the specialists in order to recover my data.

I've learned to backup, and store all my stuff in a million different places. Redundancy is my friend.

Get an external hard drive enclosure. You can probably find a decent recovery program for $30. I think Linux has one. I've never had to do this, thankfully.

 

[Christy]

Get an external hard drive enclosure. You can probably find a decent recovery program for $30. I think Linux has one. I've never had to do this, thankfully.

I'd crash an external hardrive, and everyone I've ever gone to in order to recover my hardrive(s) has had no success. EVER. Soooo, like I stated previously, I'm the queen of redundancy, I have anything of importance saved in many different places, either on a CD, or with my photos, a CD AND a server somewhere.

I just save my old hardrives for the hell of it, figure maybe someday I'll have them all recovered just for the hell of it. Just to see what I have on there, kind of like old boxes you stuff up in the attic and bring down after 10 years just to see what the hell you've got laying around. :shrug:

 

[RadioPatrol]

I had pretty good luck with a Linux Live Boot CD, a hard drive adap for laptops, and was able to recover lots of data fro drives that would not boot XP cause the System BIOS Could not find the drive, the drives were starting to get the click of death, the whine of a worn out spindle bearing, i even had to keep spraying on that had a bad Chip on the HD controller board on the back, with caned air turned upside down so it sprayed very cold liquid till the data copied over ......... there are lots of tricks to getting data back from a single hard drive ........ the worst was a collection of drives put together as a single volume (striped and mirrored not RAID) recovering 25gb of insurance policy data

 

[Mousebaby]

the 4 yr warranty does nothing to replace your data files, kids pics, word docs

That's why I back up everything CONSTANTLY! I have been burned way too many times not to!

 

[river rat]

the HD, nah...thanks...but im done with the laptop...i wasn't that impressed with it anyway...i could get a HD on ebay for $20...im just going to parts out the laptop and make what i can off the ram and battery, screen, etc. and get a tower.

CAN I HAVE YOUR F6 KEY? PLEASE?

 

[ylexot]

I'd crash an external hardrive, and everyone I've ever gone to in order to recover my hardrive(s) has had no success. EVER. Soooo, like I stated previously, I'm the queen of redundancy, I have anything of importance saved in many different places, either on a CD, or with my photos, a CD AND a server somewhere.

I just save my old hardrives for the hell of it, figure maybe someday I'll have them all recovered just for the hell of it. Just to see what I have on there, kind of like old boxes you stuff up in the attic and bring down after 10 years just to see what the hell you've got laying around. :shrug:

I haven't crashed a whole lot of drives, but I have had quite a few start to do the death rattle and smack the heads against the stops. Now I have a RAID 1 setup for my data (pair of drives with the same data). If one of them dies, I can recover easily.

 

[Seraphin]

Ok I log out and when i log back in i can only see like a few pages.

what is going on :shrug: i cleaned out all my cookies. Now what?

 

[Dougstermd]

Ok I log out and when i log back in i can only see like a few pages.

what is going on :shrug: i cleaned out all my cookies. Now what?

I dono mine does that all the time

 

[PsyOps]

Dell is all I have owned for the past 10 years. I don't know of any company that will provide service, for free, after the warrantee is expired and will renew to extended service after the current service has expired. I learned that the hard way when I let one of my PC's warrantee expire and tried to renew it and they said they can't. They are under the assumption you want to renew it then immediately try to get something major fixed.

But I keep service agreements on all of mine until I know it's not worth it anymore (i.e. time to upgrade). Dell has always been very responsive in getting things fixed for me. My daughter’s hard drive (on her laptop) crashed... they had one mailed to her next day. A key popped off her keyboard and they had one to her the next day.

The only gripe I have (as with any large company) is when you call you typically get some helpdesk in India and can't understand a word the guy is saying. Cisco is even worse.

I'm certainly not trying to sell Dell. It's just what I am comfortable with and would recommend giving them a second chance, only this time don't let the warrantee run out. I think they offer the best PCs out there for the price.

 

[Vince]

Have had two Dells in the past 10 years. Still have the second one and the daughter has the first one. Both running. Only thing I did with mine was upgrade the video card. Only complaint with Dell or any computer is the upgrade. I've got RDRAM in this one and it would cost me an arm and a leg to upgrade it, but that would be the same with any brand.