Right, so I'm in the final semester of my senior year at college, and my Dell laptop was the world to me. Then the other day it suffered what I can only determine to be catastrophic hardware failure. When it tries to boot the screen shows a bunch of jibbberish, when turns completley white, then goes black and becomes completely unresponsive. I don't have to tell anyone who's been down the college route how much crap I had saved on my hard drive. A new laptop is on the way as I can't afford to mess with Dell's customer service (most of whom are based in India) right now. All I can say is AAARRRRGH. Sorry, I just wanted to vent. Later - Dave B:mad:
Mabye someone will be able to figure it out...IDK. Sounds weird.
To anyone who uses a computer and the data is vital, two words... Back up!
A second hard drive that mirrors the first at least once a week. It is a given. Every drive dies sooner or later.
I know how you feel.. My ancient PII toshiba died a month ago and I was lost without it! It was horrible! I had no idea how attached I was to my Laptop until It stoped working on me.
If you have to replace it seriously don't get a Dell. Both my mom and sister have Dell laptops and they have constantly had problems. In fact my mom Likes my New IBM Thinkpad Z60t soo much she canceled her Dell Laptop Business Lease and ordered an IBM Thinkpad Tablet PC. It may be more money but I'll take the qualiy and reliability over cheap price any day when it comes to something that I rely on soo much.
I have had a compaq presario2100 for like 4 or 5 years and everything is still working great, the only thing is, the dog got his foot wrapped around the power cord and ripped it so do the cord has to be rubber-banned to one side so it makes a connection, for the new one we are looking at Gateway or HP
GEEK SQUAD! call them up, they'll prolly not know wtf to do and then u'll have all sorts of managers and owners of companies at your house
then u'll waste $1000 to fix the thing, it's not fixed, and then you have to buy a new one
dirtguy- dont quote me on this but im pretty sure geek squad will not service a dell. i know my bro had a dell laptop and it had horrible problems, and i seem to remember the rents taking it to best buy and getting turned away.
lol sad thing is, i work at best buy and dont even know all of the services we offer HAHA
Best buy has the "geek squad" which is actually what they're called lol
Revo2k Wrote:Best buy has the "geek squad" which is actually what they're called lol
sorry cant really tell from ur post, are u asking or telling?
NiTrO_aDdIcTiOn Wrote:sorry cant really tell from ur post, are u asking or telling?
lol I was informing....
lol sorry this might be getting off topic and i really dont know why i even care but didnt my first post already give that same information? thats why i wasnt really sure about ur post.
yeah idk it's late and i'm tired lol
you may still be able to pull the data off of the hard drive. i've had a number of hard drives crash over the years, and have saved most of the data.
yes... sometimes something else fails and you just need to throw the drive in another puter...
or you can use a program to pull the information off of the drive
Thanks guys, I'm back up and running. Bigjs nailed it, as soon as my new laptop arrived I swapped hard drives and sure enough, my ulcer went away. BTW bigjs, thanks for your info on the Lancer Evo. - Later DaveB