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[omegaV6CD]

After 4 years of trouble free service my PC decided to die. It was an Asus Nvidia MB, Athlon 2600Xp, and 1gb ram + various bits and pieces from previous PC's. Due to the fact that the PC is a very important part of our lives at the moment(Wife uses it to chat with Familyand friends in Lebanon and i do all my courseworks for my part time MSc course) I decided to replace it promptly and i ordered a dell with all inclusive. So what are your opinions about DELL any experiences? Are they any good. It is the first time that i buy a ready built PC as it worked out cheaper.
Regards
Kostas

[TheBoy]

After 4 years of trouble free service my PC decided to die. It was an Asus Nvidia MB, Athlon 2600Xp, and 1gb ram + various bits and pieces from previous PC's. Due to the fact that the PC is a very important part of our lives at the moment(Wife uses it to chat with Familyand friends in Lebanon and i do all my courseworks for my part time MSc course) I decided to replace it promptly and i ordered a dell with all inclusive. So what are your opinions about DELL any experiences? Are they any good. It is the first time that i buy a ready built PC as it worked out cheaper.
Regards
Kostas

Dell are very good, and good value as long as you don't go for extras...  ...reliable, reasonably well built, and nice a quiet.  You won't be disappointed with any Intel based PCs they sell.  Alas, like any big company, if you have to ring tech support, you have to go through the usual dumb scripts. But on the bright side, at least they have tech support who you can speak to...

[tunnie]

how exactly did it die?

If you just got a bang and a puff of smoke then its most likely the PSU which has blown and they are only around £15 to replace. Unless the mobo itself has died?

[TheBoy]

how exactly did it die?

If you just got a bang and a puff of smoke then its most likely the PSU which has blown and they are only around £15 to replace. Unless the mobo itself has died?

If its 4yrs old, it ain't worth the effort fixing it.

[omegaV6CD]

how exactly did it die?

If you just got a bang and a puff of smoke then its most likely the PSU which has blown and they are only around £15 to replace. Unless the mobo itself has died?

It was a bit temperamental lately and you couldn't switch it on easily, sometimes it would throw u in  the bios, but it would evenntually start. Yesterday and since it starts and then after 2 seconds it dies. The problem is that i have about 100gig of my music, engineering documents, e books, etc, and i don't want to lose them. What is the easiest way to extract the info?

[TheBoy]

When the Dell desktop (presumably?) arrives, unplug CD/DVD driver, and plug in your old HDD in its place. Then copy over.

[tunnie]

After 4 years of trouble free service my PC decided to die. It was an Asus Nvidia MB, Athlon 2600Xp, and 1gb ram + various bits and pieces from previous PC's. Due to the fact that the PC is a very important part of our lives at the moment(Wife uses it to chat with Familyand friends in Lebanon and i do all my courseworks for my part time MSc course) I decided to replace it promptly and i ordered a dell with all inclusive. So what are your opinions about DELL any experiences? Are they any good. It is the first time that i buy a ready built PC as it worked out cheaper.
Regards
Kostas

Dell are very good, and good value as long as you don't go for extras...  ...reliable, reasonably well built, and nice a quiet.  You won't be disappointed with any Intel based PCs they sell.  Alas, like any big company, if you have to ring tech support, you have to go through the usual dumb scripts. But on the bright side, at least they have tech support who you can speak to...

I use my dads old Dell laptop, its battery life is good. Alas i think their website is poo, when i was going though the specs, their website would not allow me to add a wireless card to a PC build  :-/

When i rang up they said, "ohh no Sir you have to ring up for that"  

On the whole good machines  

[TheBoy]

After 4 years of trouble free service my PC decided to die. It was an Asus Nvidia MB, Athlon 2600Xp, and 1gb ram + various bits and pieces from previous PC's. Due to the fact that the PC is a very important part of our lives at the moment(Wife uses it to chat with Familyand friends in Lebanon and i do all my courseworks for my part time MSc course) I decided to replace it promptly and i ordered a dell with all inclusive. So what are your opinions about DELL any experiences? Are they any good. It is the first time that i buy a ready built PC as it worked out cheaper.
Regards
Kostas

Dell are very good, and good value as long as you don't go for extras...  ...reliable, reasonably well built, and nice a quiet.  You won't be disappointed with any Intel based PCs they sell.  Alas, like any big company, if you have to ring tech support, you have to go through the usual dumb scripts. But on the bright side, at least they have tech support who you can speak to...

I use my dads old Dell laptop, its battery life is good. Alas i think their website is poo, when i was going though the specs, their website would not allow me to add a wireless card to a PC build  :-/

When i rang up they said, "ohh no Sir you have to ring up for that"  

On the whole good machines  

Dell do not always put on every single upgrade possible on their configuration pages, though surprised no mini pci option there...

[tunnie]

how exactly did it die?

If you just got a bang and a puff of smoke then its most likely the PSU which has blown and they are only around £15 to replace. Unless the mobo itself has died?

It was a bit temperamental lately and you couldn't switch it on easily, sometimes it would throw u in  the bios, but it would evenntually start. Yesterday and since it starts and then after 2 seconds it dies. The problem is that i have about 100gig of my music, engineering documents, e books, etc, and i don't want to lose them. What is the easiest way to extract the info?

Sounds like it could do with a re-formatt to be honest.

I'd buy an external hard drive (Amazon have the MyBook 250Gb for £64) copy all you files to that, then rebuild and keep all the stuff you don't use much on the MyBook.

I reformat my PC/Laptops every 6 months, keeps them running smoothly. Like an Omega, good maintenance and they keep on going  

[TheBoy]

how exactly did it die?

If you just got a bang and a puff of smoke then its most likely the PSU which has blown and they are only around £15 to replace. Unless the mobo itself has died?

It was a bit temperamental lately and you couldn't switch it on easily, sometimes it would throw u in  the bios, but it would evenntually start. Yesterday and since it starts and then after 2 seconds it dies. The problem is that i have about 100gig of my music, engineering documents, e books, etc, and i don't want to lose them. What is the easiest way to extract the info?

Sounds like it could do with a re-formatt to be honest.

I'd buy an external hard drive (Amazon have the MyBook 250Gb for £64) copy all you files to that, then rebuild and keep all the stuff you don't use much on the MyBook.

I reformat my PC/Laptops every 6 months, keeps them running smoothly. Like an Omega, good maintenance and they keep on going  

Whilst a rebuild never harms Tunnie, that sounds like h/w issue.  I would guess psu or memory (very difficult to tell those faults apart)

[omegaV6CD]

At the moment is have as a work computer a DELL D620 laptob with intel dual core, it is quiet good machine. I have ordered the new Desktop with AMD 64 3800 as i am an AMD fan, 512mb ram, i didn't go for very big memory as i don't use any CAD software any more. I will report back when i receive it on the 5th.

[tunnie]

how exactly did it die?

If you just got a bang and a puff of smoke then its most likely the PSU which has blown and they are only around £15 to replace. Unless the mobo itself has died?

It was a bit temperamental lately and you couldn't switch it on easily, sometimes it would throw u in  the bios, but it would evenntually start. Yesterday and since it starts and then after 2 seconds it dies. The problem is that i have about 100gig of my music, engineering documents, e books, etc, and i don't want to lose them. What is the easiest way to extract the info?

Sounds like it could do with a re-formatt to be honest.

I'd buy an external hard drive (Amazon have the MyBook 250Gb for £64) copy all you files to that, then rebuild and keep all the stuff you don't use much on the MyBook.

I reformat my PC/Laptops every 6 months, keeps them running smoothly. Like an Omega, good maintenance and they keep on going  

Whilst a rebuild never harms Tunnie, that sounds like h/w issue.  I would guess psu or memory (very difficult to tell those faults apart)

Very true, at my old job it was easier to troubleshoot. I always had a "set" of known working components, and put that in the suspect PC to test and see if that was the problem. Trouble is can't do that at home

[TheBoy]

At the moment is have as a work computer a DELL D620 laptob with intel dual core, it is quiet good machine. I have ordered the new Desktop with AMD 64 3800 as i am an AMD fan, 512mb ram, i didn't go for very big memory as i don't use any CAD software any more. I will report back when i receive it on the 5th.

Be interested in how you get on with it, AMD desktops are a new thing for Dell.

Never a fan of AMD myself, found them to perform slower than the supposed Intel equivilent in real world use...

[TheBoy]

Very true, at my old job it was easier to troubleshoot. I always had a "set" of known working components, and put that in the suspect PC to test and see if that was the problem. Trouble is can't do that at home

Having 'spare' bits is OK, but not a replacement for having the skills to diagnose properly - those intermittent PSU/memory errors can be a right PITA (esp as my scope is too slow, and has no memory function )

[Taxi_Driver]

When the Dell desktop (presumably?) arrives, unplug CD/DVD driver, and plug in your old HDD in its place. Then copy over.

im pretty sure the desktop i bought recently tho not dell had 2 ide slots and only one used with the dvd

So may be an option to bung the old hdd in bolt it in and leave it there.