Dell with a capital H

[Gripper]

Well when it go's wrong Gemby give jonno a call

[Snee]

No, I think what it is, is that they use cheap bits, Dell own brand mobo? unbranded ram.
This puter was £1099 + bitys and pieces which took it to £1500.

Thats not cheap, I could build a super puter for that!!

I daresay you couldn't.

The bits that make up something like Crays cost a whole lot more than that.

[peat moss]

You haven't gone to computer hell till you've tried to fix a Tiny PC

/shudders at the memory

Well grandma some big nuts you got ! Where did you find that gem ?


Your avatar I mean .

[fkdup74]

Theoretically I could take the drive out and boot it, which gives me the option to get to bios.........

ermmm......no......the BIOS is on teh mobo you drunk ass

unless, of course, you mean simply remove the drive and power up the PC w/o the drive,
in which case I'm the drunk ass and will gladly STFU

[GepperRankins]

you can get to the bios with a hard-drive in... or did you take that out of context?

[fkdup74]

you can get to the bios with a hard-drive in... or did you take that out of context?

I know that

no, it was merely a play on his words.....about taking the drive and booting it.....

hey look! it's a flying elephant! ------------->

*exits stage left

[GepperRankins]

Yeah thats what I think it was,6 kids trolling game and ringtone sites all day and shit, d/ling stuff that they don't understand, installing shit and stuff they don't know what it is or does.
Something in the startup which holted the process.
Proved simply by the fact that it started in safe and diagnostic mode.
But I went in startup and could'nt find anything, ran htj, cwshredder, pest patrol and avg and they found nothing. Regcleaner too.
Cleaned everything up and could'nt get it to boot normally, same screen every time.
Format was the easiest option.........or so I thought

Jonno

i'd say the owner tried browsing porn in MSIE is more likely than 6 kids getting ringtones

[Jon L. Obscene]

@Brain..........yes dude, stfu thats exactly what I meant, if it boots to hd first then removing the hd would give me other options, but it did'nt.

@Gepdudething.... No, well it's possible the 17y/o has been, but ringtone sites and game sites are notorious, put quicklinks and shit on your desktop, if you're gullable, I mean something will popup saying you need to install this or that to view this page and the kids just click ok. And I know the mother, she's not a porn sort of person nor is her b/f.
Does'nt really matter anyway, I just gonna put them all on parental locked internet
If they wanna look at something for adults they can call me and I'll check it first

Jonno

[Chewie]

You haven't gone to computer hell till you've tried to fix a Tiny PC
/shudders at the memory

I got a Tiny here that I'm pimpin' for a workmate. Aside from the mini-tower case it's a pretty straight-forward job.

Dells & Compaqs, on the other hand, are almost always a nightmare.
Compaq used to have a separate hidden partition that held the BIOS so dropping in a larger system drive was bloody awkward.

A friend once asked me to put his computer innards into a new case he'd bought but was a bit put-out when I saw he had a Dell and told him 'no chance!'
He arrived at 8pm and left at 2:30am.
In the mean time I ripped out the Dell's mobo mounting plate to bolt it into the new case that he butchered the rear of so it'd fit.
£60 case and the fucker bastardised it to fit a Dell in there!

[Gemby!]

Well when it go's wrong Gemby give jonno a call

it never will ......