Do I ever hate Dell

**The Hunter** · March 16th, 2006, 02:22 PM

After guiding a young lady through an install of xp pro on her fairly new dell, and helping her get the right sound, and video drivers her pc was running great. Today she went to the Dell site, and saw a recomended update for her pc, and got it. Now her both cd roms will not work as it really messed up the drivers, and she cant even do a repair install. She tried a rollback, and restore to no avail, and it turns out that she is not the only one that had this problem.

**Excrement_Cranium** · March 16th, 2006, 02:30 PM

Sounds groovy.

My last mouse was a 5 button 2 wheel, USB GE. The drivers for it rendered Windows useless, so I used generic drivers from widnows. In fact, Windows even detected a manufacturer driver, listed it in Windows update, and then told me that if I installed the driver, it would most likely fuck up windows.

After all that... I come home one day, wiggle my mouse to turn the monitor on (the only power save setting I use) and I get the sound which notifies you that a USB device has been added/removed... and then my system reboots.

Windows died. So, I proceed to do a format and install, after which, I found my mouse no longer wants to work properly.

Meh... sometimes, I just hate my fucking computer.

**cjules13** · March 16th, 2006, 02:58 PM

I gotta say, I've been pimpin' files with my Dell 8100 for about 5 years now... Once you reinstall XP after they ship you the PC loaded with bloatware it's been a lean machine.

I always said I would buy again from Dell, but I've been hearing more and more about them slippin' a little lately...

**The Hunter** · March 16th, 2006, 03:08 PM

The wife was going to get a Dell laptop this summer, but she is not sure what she should get now.

**WE_DELIVER** · March 16th, 2006, 03:24 PM

I have bought two Dell laptops from the Dell Outlet part of their online store. And both have been great machines. Especially the first one, which has been used from typing a document in Word to rendering some 3D for a TV commercial. I'm really happy with Dell so far.

What I would do though, like cjules said, is as soon as you get it, either do a fresh install, or uninstall all the unecessary shit.

**shawners** · March 16th, 2006, 04:28 PM

Hewlette Packard.. TOSHIBA.

**The Hunter** · March 16th, 2006, 04:39 PM

The reason thius pisses me off so bad is because she wouldnt wait for me to do the install, and had loads of problems, and I spent a hell of a lot of time guiding her through her mistakes. IE like Krell taught me, have all your ducks in a row, like making sure in advance that you have all your drivers burned to disk before doing an install like this. I knew her pc, so i had them burned here at home. she called and said she had shitty video, and couldnt change the settings, i told her she would not be able to change them without the video drivers, and asked if there was any other problems, and she said no, and everything was fine. ( she cant get high speed so its faster for her to drive 5 miles and get this stuff from me ) She got the video driver disk and went home and installed them and then turned the speakers on, and had no sound. Another phone call, and I said to her " remember i asked you if everything else worked?" She then drove back in and got the audio drivers
I already had burned earlier as I knew she would need them. Now to have Dell tell her she needed an update, and have it fubar her pc just pisses me off, as she learned her lessions well, and had the thing running great.

**moneoa** · March 16th, 2006, 05:12 PM

Originally Posted by The Hunter

The wife was going to get a Dell laptop this summer, but she is not sure what she should get now.

I own a Toshiba Satellite 2450
http://www.toshiba.ca/web/product.gr...t=1651#spectop

I bought it 2 and a half years ago and it is still going strong for me.
Very Respectable Machines, Very Dependable.

Also not too bad on the wallet either.
Around a grand I think.

Look into them :D

**ccc1005** · March 16th, 2006, 05:23 PM

I have a Toshiba Satellite (950 Mhz) bordering on 4 years old I think, very durable and reliable machines. Only problem was the LCD backlight went out but had it replaced by a friend.

Don't use much, just for vacations and such but it still works :)

**Andrew110** · March 16th, 2006, 06:29 PM

HP is just as bad as Dell when it comes to a bloated computer when you first get it, but I think pretty much any computer you buy from a store nowadays is gonna be infected with a lot of software you don't need. Best thing to do is reformat.

**The Hunter** · March 16th, 2006, 06:52 PM

As a little tidbit as I know the troll is still looking, it was totally tec help, as Im not touching liver when I have steak at home.

**CrashPeer44** · March 16th, 2006, 07:29 PM

Hey Hunter All the damn PC's except my main comp are Dell's and I can tell ya THEY ARE PACKED WITH CRAPWARE TO THE MAX!
you may remember my thread on the M140 and its crapware but I guess alot of systems are like like such as HP.

Gateway rocks I must say, No crapware when I got this PC.

A CLEAN NO ICON DESKTOP RIGHT ON FIRST BOOT!
have her reinstall XP again I guess, and P.S. remeber to tell them NEVER to use Dell/HP or whatever update stuff, they always mess something up as you can see!

**The Hunter** · March 16th, 2006, 07:37 PM

It was not my choice, as i guided her through the new install in a way even Krell should have been proud of. She wanted to do it on her own, so i made a nice list of what she needed, and saved everything. Then I waited for the calls. She didnt mind the little glitches, as she was learning, She hated the fact that Dell fucked up all her learning. My opinion is buy it, clean it, and never, ever let them tell you what to install.

**Krell** · March 16th, 2006, 07:48 PM

Originally Posted by The Hunter

It was not my choice, as i guided her through the new install in a way even Krell should have been proud of. She wanted to do it on her own, so i made a nice list of what she needed, and saved everything. Then I waited for the calls. She didnt mind the little glitches, as she was learning, She hated the fact that Dell fucked up all her learning. My opinion is buy it, clean it, and never, ever let them tell you what to install.

And im sure I would be . . . I have a little present to send you soon . . .

Dont forget the Acronis image etc

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**The Hunter** · March 16th, 2006, 08:00 PM

LOL, Now I just need the time to get ahold of her pc, to totally secure it. I personally would have done a sweet fast reinstall from the image i have saved. My image, and theirs is soooo different as they have a lot files saved for the nephews, and nieces. They are great people, but it needs to be a clean install, from my image, to be sweet and fast again.