Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:40:04 -0500 From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> To: Chris Howells <chris@chrishowells.co.uk>, Tuc <tuc@ttsg.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please Message-ID: <200303062140.04668.bts@babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <200303060028.48911.chris@chrishowells.co.uk> References: <200303051935.h25JZqSY003695@himinbjorg.ttsg.com> <200303060028.48911.chris@chrishowells.co.uk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 07:28 pm, Chris Howells wrote: | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- | Hash: SHA1 | | Hi, | | On Wednesday 05 March 2003 19:35, Tuc wrote: | > So the next question is how do I approach Dell to replace | > the motherboard/cpu/memory? If I show them FreeBSD they'll laugh. | | Oh dear, that's bad news. | | See http://developer.kde.org/~howells/inspiron for the battle I had | against Dell regarding trying to run Linux on a (brand new) faulty | Dell laptop. That is amazing and disheartening since I actually originally starting using Dell laptops because when I bought my first one they were about the only major manufacturor which *did* promise that their equipment would work with Linux. And shortly thereafter they started selling them with Linux pre-installed. Of course about a year later they stopped selling them with Linux, but I didn't realize that they'd gone completely over to the dark side. Actually, I notice that their website still offers Linux driver downloads for machines as recent as the 8000, so it was claerly still supported when I got my current machine. Hate to think I might have to find another company for my next computer. Do NOT buy a Compaq, whatever you do. Officially Compaq technical support disclaims any responsibility if you've installed *software* on it. The conversation: "you mean you don't support it if you've installed another *operating* *system*, right?" "if you've installed any software that didn't come with it." "A . . what? . . I . . . you're kidding . . . ok, never mind." "I'd like an RMA number, please." "Ok, . . . . " Thank heavens it went belly-up in the first two weeks while I could still return it for any reason . . . Before I got the Dell I researched to make sure that wouldn't happen again. But before I got the last one I didn't RE-research to see if they had completely changed their tune. Guess I've been lucky :-) -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200303062140.04668.bts>