Dell complaints

[dellish3]

I hate dell because i bought their most expensive xps w/all bells and whistles last year (5,400.00) and within 30 min of ownership a blue screen pops up!!! im sorry, what? a gdmf blue screen!!...that is when i entered dell hell...i could spend 1 1/2 hours explaining all that went down after that, but why waste your time... all ill say is i gave up ...i live w/the blue screen which comes on 6-12 times a day. i would rather do that than talk to some ghandoo who tells me his name is paul and cant understand a thing i say and vice versa....never, never, never buy a dell for any reason....

[FallenAngel]

Post you blue screen issue in "My Shit's Busted" section and we'll all take a crack at it for you. The site, helping itself, has an awesome track record

[Rocke_T_Sinetist]

Welcome, Dellish. Whoa, you gave Dell 5 grand? Braver man than I. That's their top-end workstation repackaged as a consumer machine. It's NOT Dell's most stable offering. (When you put that many cheap Chinese parts all in one place, something bad is bound to happen.)

6-12 times a day, but not EVERY time... you are the proud owner of defective memory. That machine is very finicky about which sockets are populated, something about 'pairs' blahblahblah. Take out half the memory. If BSOD still happens, take the other half out and put the first half back in. You'll find some combination that will work, and by elimination, the one that is causing BSOD.

Might even be easier. While it's running, wiggle the memory one stick at a time. When you come to the bad one, it will give you the BSOD. Trust me, I've wiggled a LOT of Dell memory.

Remote chance it's a particular SOCKET rather than stick. If ANY stick fails in a particular socket, the MB is bad.
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