Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:42:41 -0500 From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> To: Chris Howells <chris@chrishowells.co.uk>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please Message-ID: <200303062142.41752.bts@babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <200303060030.16389.chris@chrishowells.co.uk> References: <200303051935.h25JZqSY003695@himinbjorg.ttsg.com> <3E66539F.6010207@potentialtech.com> <200303060030.16389.chris@chrishowells.co.uk>
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On Wednesday 05 March 2003 07:30 pm, Chris Howells wrote: | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- | Hash: SHA1 | | Hi, | | On Wednesday 05 March 2003 19:44, Bill Moran wrote: | > Hell ... just install ActivePerl and write a perl script that does | > lots and lots of number crunching (it need not be anything useful) | > or install SETI and see if it crashes Windows. | | When I had a hardware problem with Dell like this one, they insisted | that there could only be a problem if there was an issue with the | installed software. If it was self-installed, then it had to be | faulty software not hardware. FWIW, when I called Dell with a problem of this nature, they had me use (or perhaps download) a testing utility -- which was self-booting and did not require *any* operating system to run. I ran that, it confirmed that the hardware was indeed faulty, and then they happily replaced it. A lot depends on how clueful a person you get in tech support, but if they are not clueful, either try again and hope for better luck or request a test utility that they would accept. Getting the O/S issue out of the way simplifies things greatly. -- 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
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