I swear this machine has a virus or something...

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Crimpergirl

Sport climber
St. Louis
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 31, 2006 - 08:45am PT
Again, thanks for all the great advice. As horrible as three years living with this P.O.S. has been, I've learned so much about computers, so that is good.

I feel much better today. I picked up everything I threw yesterday, put the phone back together (it survived quite a beating!), and had a good night of emotionally-drained sleep. Yesterday's fit, spectacular I must add, was a LONG time coming.
Hardman Knott

Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
Aug 31, 2006 - 09:17am PT
Thanks for the update. Glad it finally worked out. I'm jealous...
It seems us Mac users have missed out on a lot of opportunities
to throw stuff!
TGreene

Trad climber
Jonesboro, Arkansas
Aug 31, 2006 - 09:21am PT
Forest,

FYI: Eudora actually had a rather complex vulnerability a couple of years ago, but it has since been fixed and upgraded. Eudora Pro 7 is once again 100% rock solid.
goatboy smellz

climber
colorful boulder
Aug 31, 2006 - 09:26am PT
A cathartic clip gafflled off google...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5533556431902361803&q=throwing+computers
Voltzwgn

Trad climber
Sac CA
Oct 19, 2006 - 10:53am PT
Crimpie, ever get your new laptop? If so are thing better now? Hope they buy them with a decent amount of memory that alone make a tremendous difference in performance.
Crimpergirl

Sport climber
St. Louis
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 19, 2006 - 11:05am PT
I do have a new one. It's a Latitude D820. WAY lighter-weight than the other one. And it is amazing how much more work I'm getting done now that I can do work instead of sit and be a slave to the other beast.

The new machine has a few issues. Once or twice a day, I get the blue screen of death, for a milli-second and the machine reboots. Says it recovered from a serious error. I send the report and the machine automatically takes me to a page - the Online Crash Analysis page. It says:

"Error caused by a device driver." In the error report summary, it says there is an unknown device driver. Says they can't do anything about it. But they do encourage me to continue to send error reports so analysts at microsoft can study and try to correct the problem as quickly as possible.

Funny thing is that two crashes a day is so much better than the old machine that it doesn't even bug me much! Still, it's inexcuseable to sell a product that does crash imo.

Voltzwgn

Trad climber
Sac CA
Oct 19, 2006 - 11:17am PT
If it's crashing on a device driver maybe something added by your support folks. It's unlikely it came from Dell in that state. May not hurt to call Dell on it though as they may have tools to isolate the problem. The event logs may also provide insight into where the issue is. You should ask yiur support folks to address this because as you say a new laptop shouldn't have problems like that.
TradIsGood

Fun-loving climber
the Gunks end of the country
Oct 19, 2006 - 11:18am PT
Cars crash.

Usually not twice a day.

But at least the computer can restart after a crash!

And no insurance claims, rate hikes.
G_Gnome

Boulder climber
Sick Midget Land
Oct 19, 2006 - 11:32am PT
If Windows is actually rebooting it is more likely a hardware issue than a driver issue. Call Dell and let them look at the logs and run diags. Your computer should just about never crash.
Crimpergirl

Sport climber
St. Louis
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 19, 2006 - 11:48am PT
I showed it to the folks in IT here and they say "well, there is nothing we can do until Microsoft fixes it". They suggested I added software that caused it (not true). I think I just have a magnetic field that makes machine futz up. :)

Calling Dell won't work for me because they have to go through our IT department.

Btw, if anyone is interested, I took a screen shot of the error message page I talked about. I can email it to you. Maybe those of you who speak computer can translate it.
Forest

Trad climber
Tucson, AZ
Oct 19, 2006 - 12:58pm PT
I can translate it. It says, "make them buy you a mac." :-) Heh. sorry. just joking... well, sorta.
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