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Date:      Sat, 8 Aug 2009 15:38:25 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Identry <jalmberg@identry.com>
Cc:        Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fwd: Boot failure
Message-ID:  <20090808133825.GA74006@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <4d4e09680908080453i316e1f3buc00f3d0d8477794b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 07:53:40AM -0400, Identry wrote:
> >> Looks like your hardware is dying/dead.
> >
> > Sadly, I agree.
<snip>
> > I'd get to the point of swapping hardware one at a time until it
> > fixes, or until you exhaust your options. =A0Have any kind of support
> > contract with the OEM?
>=20
> I do have a support contract and I'm going to dump this right in their
> lap. Two machines we bought from them -- pretty expensive ones -- and
> both have had hardware failures. And they are only a couple of years
> old. I'm not too happy with them at the moment.

For computers, that is already old these days. At $WORK the Dell
computers (both desktops and servers AFAIK) that we use are ditched at
the first problem after the warranty runs out which is after three
years, I believe.

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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