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vertygo
08-09-2006, 10:30 AM
My OTHER pride and joy.. my Dell XPS died yesterday. I suspect the wonky powersupply fried the motherboard.. or it just commited suicide due to it being used for about million hours over its intended lifespan..

Not under *official* warranty, but I bought it with my platinum visa which claims to double the warranty you get. We've tried this before (my wife blows through laptops like a 3 year old and clean socks) and were denied the claim due to it being 2 days past the 45 day time limit they informed us after we submitted it. I think the whole thing is a scam, and that every claim will be denied. BUT my DW is a bulldog for these sorts of things, so we'll see if I get my four hundred back back for the fix.

In the mean time.. we get to sha.. "I'm ALMOST done!" we get to share this.. "YES, one more MINUTE, please!" we get to share this laptop.. "OK, but you'll have to change a dirty diaper SOME time!"

Bollux
08-09-2006, 02:59 PM
sorry to hear it man, i feel your pain, i need to get a new vid card as the one i have doesn't have the pixel shader (as we have spoken about before) found a card I could use and now its just a matter of getting the 60 bucks for it.

jeffus
08-10-2006, 03:08 AM
This is why I do not buy laptops! They die! They die often! They die early!

They're great. Convenient. And oh, so cool. But they die.

I hand-me-down desktops to neices, nephews, daughters, wifey. And they're still going...:shrug:

MonsterStar
08-12-2006, 02:30 AM
They die! They die often! They die early!


I thought there was a reason I shouldn't get one. Thanks for the remind.

Mark B.
08-15-2006, 09:39 PM
Vertygo,

Does this have anything to do with Dell's recall today? I hope you did not let the dog chew on it after it died if it is.

Indy
08-16-2006, 12:34 AM
This is why I do not buy laptops! They die! They die often! They die early!

They're great. Convenient. And oh, so cool. But they die.

I hand-me-down desktops to neices, nephews, daughters, wifey. And they're still going...:shrug:
Yep, I've got two dead laptops myself, and my brother-in-law's laptop is here so I can pull data off the hard drive (his wife spilled coffee into it).

vertygo
08-16-2006, 02:02 AM
No, but I did match up my batteries.. none of them are the recalled ones.

Should be back this week.. and I can finally get back to work / play.