I'm Talking to a Bot -.-

Oct. 23rd, 2007 at 3:03 PM

Dell chat = bot. Pfui.

-The Gneech

EDIT: Oh well, bot or not bot, I bought the computer. Now I'll have to dig out all my install disks again...

Current Mood: cold and impersonal

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hossblacksilver

Oct. 23rd, 2007 07:27 pm (UTC)

The Matrix has you.

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rhanlav

Oct. 23rd, 2007 08:23 pm (UTC)

You take the Blue Pill, and we'll outsource your Technical Support to India, the warranty ends, and you wake up with an ear ache. Take the Red Pill, and uh... well, I'm not sure what that one does. Its probably Cherry Flavored though. Mmmmmm. Cherry.

--Salen

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camstone

Oct. 23rd, 2007 08:43 pm (UTC)

Oh man, you could have bought an HP!

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the_gneech

Oct. 23rd, 2007 08:46 pm (UTC)

I've had an HP before -- I'm not making that mistake again!

-TG

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kamau_d_lyon

Oct. 23rd, 2007 09:33 pm (UTC)

Well that's two of us with new PCs. Got an eMachine with Pentium 4 3.0GHz, 1GB DDR2, 160GB drive (got a 400GB to add to that). Big problem is it's got Vista Home Premium on it. I'll give it a try but at the first sign of trouble I blow it away and put XP Pro on it. Seeing the only reason I'm getting it is for gaming I may have to do that just for them to run. I'll more then likely also add a better video card and more memory to it but that's likely to cost more then the PC itself. I LOVE TigerDirect deals! I'm looking at either a XFX GeForce 8600 GT or EVGA GeForce 8600 GTS. Either of those should make Second Life and World of Warcraft happy.

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the_mcp

Oct. 23rd, 2007 10:09 pm (UTC)

At the first sign of trouble? That oughta be about, what, five minutes after you switch it on? :D

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kamau_d_lyon

Oct. 24th, 2007 01:33 am (UTC)

Yup. Either that or until the first 'update' gets put in as I understand they are known for crashing systems. My only concern is finding XP drivers for all the devices. I hope to know by the end of the weekend.

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laurie_robey

Oct. 24th, 2007 12:25 am (UTC)

Good luck! I've heard that "downgrading" from Vista to XP is a real pain.

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kamau_d_lyon

Oct. 24th, 2007 01:39 am (UTC)

The reality of it is that you don't downgrade. You start clean. Blow the partition away, set it, blow it away again and then make the final set. I was told it's best to do the double reseting of the partition to make sure all of Vista is gone. From there you just treat it like you put a new hard drive in. What I may do is simply get a new 400-500GB hard drive and do the clean install on that. After all what's a 160GB these days.

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