Egon
Active Member
Ok, I'm going to tell you a tale.. A magical tale... A tale of unfounded proportions... A tale of how my laptop went to hell with a first class ticket.
It all started about two weeks ago. While searching the web in a random fashion not really looking for anything inperticular, my wireless cuts out and dies on me. "Wait, what's going on? Why wont this thing load..." I open the wireless control to find it disabled so much so that I had to restart to get a connection back. A few minutes later it does the same thing again... and keeps on doing it until it no longer connects at all. So there I am, with my laptop, just glairing at the screen. I turn everything off and open it up to pull my mini PCI out and put it back in. The laptop turns back on and I still have no connection. Then the battery dies, can't hold a charge at all.
Later on in the week after using my modem, it dies also. "Cannot specify current modem!" it says. So, like my wireless card, I open the laptop back up. Turn it back on and it still can't find my modem. Later that day I go to reinstall the drivers. "ERROR: Please update your MSI to Windows 3.1 or higher." 3.1? I'm using XP! Later that night I just give up with the drivers and start to use my desktop. As time goes by I downloaded things I want to take with me, so since they are on my desktop I use my external HD to move them over to the laptop... 10 minutes after the E-HD was plugged into the laptop all the USBs died. I just give up for the day and went to sleep.
Sometime the next week I feel up to trying to fix the laptop again. Since the battery died I've been bringing the AC Recharger along with me where ever I go... It has now become so warn threw that I have to hold it is a possion so that it can send power. I rumage around the house for a good 2 hours trying to find the Windows XP Reinstall CD, and I do find it. I figure this will fix my wireless and modem problems. After 40 minutes of holding the AC recharger in place so the laptop wont turn off it finaly finished the reinstall. BAM! The Home key comes flying off the keyboard and smacks me in the face for no reason what-so-ever. Being baffled by this for awhile I go to snap it back on the keyboard, but oh no, that would be to easy! It actually was broken off to the point where I couldn't reattach it. I sigh and restart the laptop... I find that not only can't I reinstall games, etc. but the wireless and modem still don't work, I'm missing .dlls all over the place and the blasted thing is just erroring to hell and back. Angerly I turn it off and throw it aside on my bed...
And today, I spent three hours talking to tech support trying to fix it with them having me do everything that I've already tied to do to fix it. They give up since they're troubleshooting guide can't help anymore since they went through it and their manager has no idea what's going on with my laptop. So they said that they are sending me a new keyboard, battery and OS CD which should be here sometime this week.
So what have I learned? Dell=No
P.S. Sorry for the bad grammer, it's 1:33am and I'm pretty tired.
It all started about two weeks ago. While searching the web in a random fashion not really looking for anything inperticular, my wireless cuts out and dies on me. "Wait, what's going on? Why wont this thing load..." I open the wireless control to find it disabled so much so that I had to restart to get a connection back. A few minutes later it does the same thing again... and keeps on doing it until it no longer connects at all. So there I am, with my laptop, just glairing at the screen. I turn everything off and open it up to pull my mini PCI out and put it back in. The laptop turns back on and I still have no connection. Then the battery dies, can't hold a charge at all.
Later on in the week after using my modem, it dies also. "Cannot specify current modem!" it says. So, like my wireless card, I open the laptop back up. Turn it back on and it still can't find my modem. Later that day I go to reinstall the drivers. "ERROR: Please update your MSI to Windows 3.1 or higher." 3.1? I'm using XP! Later that night I just give up with the drivers and start to use my desktop. As time goes by I downloaded things I want to take with me, so since they are on my desktop I use my external HD to move them over to the laptop... 10 minutes after the E-HD was plugged into the laptop all the USBs died. I just give up for the day and went to sleep.
Sometime the next week I feel up to trying to fix the laptop again. Since the battery died I've been bringing the AC Recharger along with me where ever I go... It has now become so warn threw that I have to hold it is a possion so that it can send power. I rumage around the house for a good 2 hours trying to find the Windows XP Reinstall CD, and I do find it. I figure this will fix my wireless and modem problems. After 40 minutes of holding the AC recharger in place so the laptop wont turn off it finaly finished the reinstall. BAM! The Home key comes flying off the keyboard and smacks me in the face for no reason what-so-ever. Being baffled by this for awhile I go to snap it back on the keyboard, but oh no, that would be to easy! It actually was broken off to the point where I couldn't reattach it. I sigh and restart the laptop... I find that not only can't I reinstall games, etc. but the wireless and modem still don't work, I'm missing .dlls all over the place and the blasted thing is just erroring to hell and back. Angerly I turn it off and throw it aside on my bed...
And today, I spent three hours talking to tech support trying to fix it with them having me do everything that I've already tied to do to fix it. They give up since they're troubleshooting guide can't help anymore since they went through it and their manager has no idea what's going on with my laptop. So they said that they are sending me a new keyboard, battery and OS CD which should be here sometime this week.
So what have I learned? Dell=No
P.S. Sorry for the bad grammer, it's 1:33am and I'm pretty tired.
I'm guessing 2:30pm
