From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 6 18:42:51 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 D438337B401 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 18:42:49 -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 0B20C43F3F for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 18:42:49 -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 h272fFbB021403; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:41:15 -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 21:40:44 -0500 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id 0D2A8BA08; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:42:42 -0500 (EST) From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: Chris Howells , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:42:41 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200303051935.h25JZqSY003695@himinbjorg.ttsg.com> <3E66539F.6010207@potentialtech.com> <200303060030.16389.chris@chrishowells.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200303060030.16389.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: <200303062142.41752.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 07:30 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