gweedo

I"ll try and make this as short as I can..

i bought a Inspiron E1705 a little over 6 months ago.. I got the bells and whistles, well most of them, spent a little over $1600 bucks.. I wiped my drive about 2 months after getting it do to spyware, and sinse then nothing but problems.. I am getting the same error though.. the NMI: parity check / memory parity error.. (there is nothing about this online?) so anyway Dell sent me new memory, it wasn't matching so it didn't work, they sent new memory again and I was getting the same error, they sent a tech to my house and replaced the mother board and the memory again, same error, sent the tech out to my house again and replaced the mother board, the memory and the hard drive. same error still??? I then asked for a new replacement and they can only send me a refurbished laptop?? there is more to this but the Fedex guy has been here twice trying to deliver said laptop and I missed him, might show up today but I am going to have it sent back, and I am requesting a refund on the original laptop..

First Q is would anyone here except a refurb for something you paid ~$1600 for?

Second Q has anyone had this parity error problem?

third Q after I get refund what shall I buy? I use it for gaming and pic's and music.. basically to replace my POS desktop with the 933Mhz.. Oh and the reason I bought a dell in the first place is I get a discount working for Intel..

Thanks and I hope to here from you guys..
Josh