Dell owners watch out - What tech support didn't tell me

SYNTuesday · 09-14-2002, 09:53 PM

Apparantly Dell likes proprietary hardware a lot, so IF YOU NEED TO REPLACE YOUR POWER SUPPLY... make sure it's Dell branded. If you hook up a Dell motherboard and non-Dell power supply, or vice versa, as soon as you turn on the power, IT WILL FRY BOTH OF THEM.

Thanks for telling me, Mr. Tech Support Guy. "Ya, you should go ahead and replace the power supply" "Thanks" "No problem, have a nice day" :disappointed:

Kid Afrika · 09-14-2002, 10:38 PM

YUO = MORON

AdolescentMasturbator · 09-15-2002, 02:08 AM

That's what you get for using a dell motherboard.

PatCooper · 09-15-2002, 03:45 PM

Good thing i didn't buy a Dell. :thumbs-up:

PollyannaFlower46 · 09-15-2002, 05:56 PM

Quote:Good thing i didn't buy a Dell.

Eeek mine is coming on Tuesday!

PatCooper · 09-15-2002, 08:13 PM

Quote:Eeek mine is coming on Tuesday!

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PollyannaFlower46 · 09-15-2002, 08:38 PM

Naw, my idiot parents paid extra to have them come to the house when we break the computer.

Arthur Dent · 09-15-2002, 11:25 PM

Just got mine. everything's working fine for me.

PatCooper · 09-15-2002, 11:37 PM

Give it a few months and this will be you

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Tenbatsuzen · 09-16-2002, 12:24 AM

Um, my family has had Dells since the mid 90's, with five systems... not a major problem with one, knock wood.

Kid Afrika · 09-16-2002, 01:31 AM

Dell computers work just fine. Unless you try to modify them extensively. I have 2 Dell machines that are each about 5 years old, and they work like they were new.

By the by, out of about 6 Dell machines I've never seen a *edit - bad power supply.

Edited By Kid Afrika on Sep. 16 2002 at 7:59

AdolescentMasturbator · 09-16-2002, 04:25 AM

I still have an old dell pentium 133 thats more than 6 years old that works fine.

FollowThisLogic · 09-16-2002, 05:59 PM

You sure that was it?

We use Dells here at work. I just opened mine. Looks fairly standard..

Maynard · 09-16-2002, 07:06 PM

We pretty much use Dell exclusively here at work. And in the over 1000 machines we bought, I've seen bad power supplys on maybe a half dozen machines new out of the box. Most of them were on servers though.

Goatweed · 09-16-2002, 07:10 PM

I've had my Dell for almost 4 years now, and I've added 2 HD's to it, upgraded the PII 400 CPU to a PIII 1Gig, etc. and it's been running fine. The motherboard did go out on me once, but it wasn't because of a power supply - it just went. I was still under warranty, so Dell sent me another one. Maybe I've been lucky, but Dell Techies have really come through for me whenever I had to contact them.

JerseyThunder · 09-16-2002, 07:23 PM

The only problem I've ever had with mine is the original hard drive went on it and when the guy cam out I got a brand new one with 10 more gigs. :thumbs-up: