From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 6 18:40:18 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6FF437B405 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 18:40:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EBD043F3F for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 18:40:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from mail3.nc.rr.com (fe3 [24.93.67.50]) by ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h272cebD019937; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:38:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([24.74.172.220]) by mail3.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:38:07 -0500 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id 0768DBA08; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:40:04 -0500 (EST) From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: Chris Howells , Tuc Subject: Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:40:04 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: questions@freebsd.org References: <200303051935.h25JZqSY003695@himinbjorg.ttsg.com> <200303060028.48911.chris@chrishowells.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200303060028.48911.chris@chrishowells.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303062140.04668.bts@babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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