Fwd: Boot failure

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Sat Aug 8 13:39:02 UTC 2009


On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 07:53:40AM -0400, Identry wrote:
> >> Looks like your hardware is dying/dead.
> >
> > Sadly, I agree.
<snip>
> > I'd get to the point of swapping hardware one at a time until it
> > fixes, or until you exhaust your options.  Have any kind of support
> > contract with the OEM?
> 
> I do have a support contract and I'm going to dump this right in their
> lap. Two machines we bought from them -- pretty expensive ones -- and
> both have had hardware failures. And they are only a couple of years
> old. I'm not too happy with them at the moment.

For computers, that is already old these days. At $WORK the Dell
computers (both desktops and servers AFAIK) that we use are ditched at
the first problem after the warranty runs out which is after three
years, I believe.

Roland
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