Foilin wrote:Dell laptops are hella reliable, the only reason it should be serviced that much is because your putting shit on it that shouldnt be there. I LOVE vista i just built a new system and vista is rockin, stick to XP the diff isnt bigg nuff unless you have 4gigs of ram dualcore and DX10 video card(s). Any other laptop is pretty shitty imo. other than alienware (which is also DELL)
I'm on my 3rd motherboard soon to be my 4th when they come replace it tomorrow for my Inspiron 600m.
Not a single piece of this computer is left over from the original one they sent me except maybe the processor itself, the battery and the A/C adapter.
Everything else has been replaced at least once including all the cosmetic plastic, lol.
LockStar. wrote:Thing is that there wouldn't be problems if the majority complaining was running XP on their machines.
That's what happened with XP. People complained about it and stuck to 98/me/2000. When they finally upgraded their computers, to something that could handle XP and came bundled with it, they got used to it. The majority of people wouldn't have problems if we were still on windows 95.
LockStar. wrote:Let me begin with: SCREW VISTA! SCREW BILL GAY! (or however his damn name is spelled)
Had my laptop for some 7 months now, and it has been to the tech for 4 times so far, 3 of them blue screens and once for a corrupted hard-drive. As a matter of fact this morning I woke up to find that it didn't shut down properly and had the 2 options: 'Repair Windows bla bla' (When pressed nothing happens) and 'Start windows normally' (When pressed laptop just restarts and comes back to the same screen) I tried Safe mode, memory diagnostics.. nothing. Then I end up downloading a recovery disk file (God knows where I put mine) and doing a simple system restore for an hour and a half.
Problems, problems, problems.. I will give an example with a simple .rar extraction file. I run basic vista home edition.. for any action like pasting or installing something you have to have Administrator rights, and not just be logged in as admin but also to approve the action. So I want to extract a file from a .rar archive to a program folder.. vista asks winrar for administrator rights and winrar just buggs out and returns with an 'Access denied' error and closes the archive. So I would just extract the thing to desktop and copy it manualy from there to my location... I wonder if it was someone else who didn't understand how this works. So bad thought out.
Reinstalling vista on my notebook: SATA Drivers loop... and apparently the usual way I know to bypass those wont work on my bios. So.. the only way for me to get rid of it and install XP on it is to get a USB floppy drive to boot the SATA drivers from.
HOPELESS I TELL YA!
wait, you sent your computer away because of a blue screen?... Also, the classic "omg it keeps asking me for admin rights" just turn off UAC!
Anywho, your main problems seem to be hardware. That aint vistas fault.
Sent my computer away? Lol.. in my country, the longest drive you could have is 30 mins, just drive down the shop in like 15 mins.
LockStar. wrote:Let me begin with: SCREW VISTA! SCREW BILL GAY! (or however his damn name is spelled)
Had my laptop for some 7 months now, and it has been to the tech for 4 times so far, 3 of them blue screens and once for a corrupted hard-drive. As a matter of fact this morning I woke up to find that it didn't shut down properly and had the 2 options: 'Repair Windows bla bla' (When pressed nothing happens) and 'Start windows normally' (When pressed laptop just restarts and comes back to the same screen) I tried Safe mode, memory diagnostics.. nothing. Then I end up downloading a recovery disk file (God knows where I put mine) and doing a simple system restore for an hour and a half.
Problems, problems, problems.. I will give an example with a simple .rar extraction file. I run basic vista home edition.. for any action like pasting or installing something you have to have Administrator rights, and not just be logged in as admin but also to approve the action. So I want to extract a file from a .rar archive to a program folder.. vista asks winrar for administrator rights and winrar just buggs out and returns with an 'Access denied' error and closes the archive. So I would just extract the thing to desktop and copy it manualy from there to my location... I wonder if it was someone else who didn't understand how this works. So bad thought out.
Reinstalling vista on my notebook: SATA Drivers loop... and apparently the usual way I know to bypass those wont work on my bios. So.. the only way for me to get rid of it and install XP on it is to get a USB floppy drive to boot the SATA drivers from.
HOPELESS I TELL YA!
wait, you sent your computer away because of a blue screen?... Also, the classic "omg it keeps asking me for admin rights" just turn off UAC!
Anywho, your main problems seem to be hardware. That aint vistas fault.
Sent my computer away? Lol.. in my country, the longest drive you could have is 30 mins, just drive down the shop in like 15 mins.
The Vatican? Getting to the University each day takes me an hour for 1 way =S
