Dell complaints

ColonialMarine0431 · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 8:40 pm Post subject: Noobie

Hello all.

I'm running a Dimension 8200 here. (don't laff. It was freebie hand me down from my brother Razz

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Ran fine. For the 1st 2 months, then it started to freeze up and reboot itself. I had a techie repair friend check it out and run a full diagnostic. He said my CD drive was overheating the system, so I installed a new one. Easy enough for a dumb novice like me. Worked fine.... For a while. So I got fed up late one night and just unplugged the CD drive and it appears to run fine. For now. Of course, now I don't have a CD drive.

I've been looking at maybe getting an HP laptop for my next purchase.

Thoughts?

Russ

Rocke_T_Sinetist · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:22 pm Post subject:

Mine is at least 5 years older.

'CD drive overheating the system' doesn't make a whole lot of engineering sense. CD drives give off very little heat, even when they are in use, and almost none when they are idle. Why it works with the drive unplugged, I can't say. The drive's power consumption is minimal even when they are operating.

Can't speak to the customer satisfaction of HP laptop buyers. See if there is a "I hate HP" site, and what kind of problems users have. The one thing we know, is that Dell is as unreliable as vendors get as far as hardware, and much worse in terms the availability and efficacy of support.
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