On Wednesday 05 March 2003 07:30 pm, Chris Howells wrote: | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- | Hash: SHA1 | | Hi, | | On Wednesday 05 March 2003 19:44, Bill Moran wrote: | > Hell ... just install ActivePerl and write a perl script that does | > lots and lots of number crunching (it need not be anything useful) | > or install SETI and see if it crashes Windows. | | When I had a hardware problem with Dell like this one, they insisted | that there could only be a problem if there was an issue with the | installed software. If it was self-installed, then it had to be | faulty software not hardware.
FWIW, when I called Dell with a problem of this nature, they had me use (or perhaps download) a testing utility -- which was self-booting and did not require *any* operating system to run. I ran that, it confirmed that the hardware was indeed faulty, and then they happily replaced it. A lot depends on how clueful a person you get in tech support, but if they are not clueful, either try again and hope for better luck or request a test utility that they would accept. Getting the O/S issue out of the way simplifies things greatly. -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
