Dell has changed it policy on OS disk

Be sure to practice safe computing, however. :-D

 

When's the last time you purchased an IBM desktop?

 

Blame Nixon & his historic 1972 trip.

 

They can't have any worse customer and tech support than a Dell Dimension
purchased through the Home/Home Office division. >g<
That is why I listed them as the THIRD option.

 

<raises right hand>

Dim 8400 refurb delivered 03/03/05 (along with a refurb 1704FPV LCD
monitor).

 

And yet, here you still remain. Such dedication, such passion, such
commitment to the cause.

We have to stop meeting like this, Irene. Others will talk.....


Stew

 

Enough have posted after new purchases since the Dell
announcement to determine, sort of, that:

a) the "restore to as shipped factory install configuration"
partition for reinstalling the OS has been on all of them.

b) presence or lack of the WinXP OEM reinstall disk was spotty,
but tending toward presence early on in the changeover and toward
absence lately.

c) It seems that the "drivers" CD is gone, in favor of one
downloading them from Dell.

d) Productivity suite [currently WordPerfect] and AV [Macafee?
currently] reinstall CDs are included.

e) It appears that the autostart script that offers to create an
OS reinstall CD from the hidden partition of a) upon first
start-up doesn't run if a CD Drive is not present on the machine.

f) If you fight hard enough, it would seem you can get an XP
restore CD, whether at a $10 or whatever PITA charge for Dell
having to do it or not is still uncertain - not enough info on
that.

g) In a 15-minute search of the Dell web jungle yesterday,
including the forums, I failed to find any information at all on
any of this - other than the odd, unanswered by Dell, post that
tended to be saying WTFO? on this topic, just as we are in
a.s.pc-c.d.

Fortunately [and knocking on wood madly], I don't expect to be
getting a new machine for a year or so, when this will have
played out. Depending on how it has played out, if an OS
reinstall CD is not available from Dell - or Gateway, or HP/C,
etc. should they have better pricing - I would be inclined to go
the OS-less option through the small business site and get my own
XP. And factor that cost into my price comparisons.

 

Don't you get tired of making the same irrational comments. For the several
dozenth time(not exactly good language),

WE STILL OWN AND OPERATE THREE(3), read that carefully, THREE(3) DELL
DIMENSION COMPUTERS.
Accordingly, I have as much right to be here as you,
possibly, MORE. Since you spend more harassing people who are having
problems with their Dell computers and are upset with Dell, than anything
else.

 

"Don't you get tired of making the same irrational comments."

I wish you would. Besides, everyone around here knows what you're going to
say, so if you insist on posting why not just put "like usual" in the body
and leave it at that?

Ted Zieglar

 

"I love you, Irene."


Stew

 

Whine-Whine-Whine....Say Good-Night Irene!
By the way, Dell has just started a support call center here in the U.S. in
the building right next to my work.
Appears they are moving at least some of the support back to the states.

 

i always put on a glove before i grab my big mouse... 8-()

 

right... but why stop at 32 years ago though? why not go back to the end
of WWII when Roosevelt left the commies in charge of china and northern
korea? ohhh, that's right. he's a democrat and we all know they are weak
on defense and long term implications... 8-P

 

like the same couldn't be said for you? yaaaawwwnnnnnn.....

 

there's one born every minute... but you might be an hours worth!

 

hahahaha.... so your statement validates irene's "whine"! if dell's
support didn't suck so bad, why would they have to move it back to the U.S.?

you should be thanking irene for spearheading the effort to return dell
support to respectable levels! your sheepish attitude of "well others do
it, and now dell does it, so we have to live with it" got nothing but more
of the same crap support. irene's firm voice and spine has lead the way
back to good support (hopefully), even for you worthless sheep that would
just as willingly eat the swill support dell has shoveled into your trough
over the last few years. baahaaahaaaa.

viva irene! we luv ya babe!! fight the good fight!!! stand firm no matter
how many sheep bray at you...

 

you can order a system without an OS? never saw that option?

 

no

 

received xp disk today end of story

 

You must understand, he is a "Dellbot" and "Dellbots" have rights that they
deny the rest of us.