OT: Dead on arrival

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Richard Kreiss (Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:06:45 -0500):
[...]
> > > One of my client's sub-let office space to an outside person.  On
> > > suggestions from his "friends" he purchased a new Dell
> > computer with
> > > Vista.  Well after a week of it constantly locking up and Dell Tech
> > > support unable to figure out why, he sent it back.  He is using his
> > > old machine with Win 2000.
> > >
> > > Bad machine or OS Problem, I don't know.
> >
> > Did it come with an nVidia video chipset?
> >
> >     http://www.google.com/search?q=vista+class+action+video
> >
> >     http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/03/0110248
>
> I don't know.  I was not in my client's office in NYC and only
> communicated
> with e-mail and 1 phone call.  This person is not my client.
>
> I don't even want to venture a guess as this was a Dell computer and I
> don't know what model.
>
> Would Dell be so stupid as to use a Vista troubled chipset?  Their
> purchasing agents couldn't be that stupid.  Or could they?

The local BestBuy has a bunch of Vista systems on display, including
some with nVidia chipsets, and they were running just fine, so it's
not as if it's a brand-wide problem with all systems.

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