having some serious cpu issues

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Originally posted by SteveDallas
Yeah, that's kinda what I was thinking in suggesting disabling the onboard network.

But call Dell.... hold their feet to the fire.

I did call Dell late last week ... I tried to be very firm and pissed off about the problem, but the schmuck from India with whom I spoke didn't seem to understand my pissed-off-ness (nor did he speak very coherent english).

He had me repeat steps literally two or three times, but he was serious about it. As in he made it sound like we were trying something totally new each time.

This ridiculous interchange went on until he told me to disassemble the whole computer and only plug in the critical components. I suddenly got this feeling that if i followed the tech's instructions and fucked something up, Dell would somehow manage to screw me over and say my system is no longer covered.

Next time I am going to call back and pretend to be an idiot.