What Are You Doing Right Now
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to resurrect a (probably) dead DELL laptop.
Doing the old "power LED comes on for 2 seconds then wont turn on" bit.
I have the owner's personal laptop disassembled on my desk, pretty sure it has a bad charger jack, it won't run off of AC or battery, nor will it charge. But the service tag is scraped off from use, so I can't contact Dell about warranty replacement parts.
It's amazing how many of these DELLs have power issues.
I buy DELL exclusively, and for the most part they have been good, but it makes you wonder...
We are also a Dell shop, but the number of issues I've had has been near zero. 2 or 3 failed server drives in 3 years. 1 laptop battery replacement (long out of warranty). I attribute this issue to the fact that his wife/kids were using this laptop. But it still has pro support because he bought it under the company account (smart move).
Yeah even the laptops that have died on me, died after a good number of years.
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@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Trying to resurrect a (probably) dead DELL laptop.
Doing the old "power LED comes on for 2 seconds then wont turn on" bit.
I have the owner's personal laptop disassembled on my desk, pretty sure it has a bad charger jack, it won't run off of AC or battery, nor will it charge. But the service tag is scraped off from use, so I can't contact Dell about warranty replacement parts.
It's amazing how many of these DELLs have power issues.
I buy DELL exclusively, and for the most part they have been good, but it makes you wonder...
We are also a Dell shop, but the number of issues I've had has been near zero. 2 or 3 failed server drives in 3 years. 1 laptop battery replacement (long out of warranty). I attribute this issue to the fact that his wife/kids were using this laptop. But it still has pro support because he bought it under the company account (smart move).
Yeah even the laptops that have died on me, died after a good number of years.
Most of the Dells that have died around here shipped with XP or Vista, so they had served for many years beyond expectations.
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@RojoLoco said
Most of the Dells that have died around here shipped with XP or Vista, so they had served for many years beyond expectations.
Ours aren't that bad, but close.
But with an i5, 4-8GB of RAM, and an SSD, they are fine.
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Same with our HP desktops, failure rates near zero.
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@BRRABill said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said
Most of the Dells that have died around here shipped with XP or Vista, so they had served for many years beyond expectations.
Ours aren't that bad, but close.
But with an i5, 4-8GB of RAM, and an SSD, they are fine.
Luckily, we are replacing the old Optiplexes with new Precisions, dual SSDs, 16gb+, etc. Some of them even have dual CPU sockets.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Same with our HP desktops, failure rates near zero.
Yeah, getting away from the whiteboxes they had when I started hear has made my job so much easier. Also realized that you can pickup refurbished workstation class hardware for about the same money as a new desktop. That's two orders of magnitude we've moved up in reliability!
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Got the car registered this morning.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Same with our HP desktops, failure rates near zero.
I have a Z420 at work and it's awesome. We bought some new beefy Z400's that are working really well also. 128GB RAM and dual 6 core Xeons.
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@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Same with our HP desktops, failure rates near zero.
I have a Z420 at work and it's awesome. We bought some new beefy Z400's that are working really well also. 128GB RAM and dual 6 core Xeons.
Fujitsu isn't bad either. No faults in nearly 6 years, apart from a fan on an AMD FirePro. Decent dual-socket workstation are available too: Celsius R5xx line.
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I just got back from lunch, and have a headache.... bah.
Anyways for lunch I had a roast beef sandwich, with chips and a pickle spear.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Same with our HP desktops, failure rates near zero.
I have a Z420 at work and it's awesome. We bought some new beefy Z400's that are working really well also. 128GB RAM and dual 6 core Xeons.
Fujitsu isn't bad either. No faults in nearly 6 years, apart from a fan on an AMD FirePro. Decent dual-socket workstation are available too: Celsius R5xx line.
Hard to get those in the US.
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Waiting on Vendor from yesterday to get a hold of me.... I was smart this time and brought a laptop.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@stacksofplates said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Same with our HP desktops, failure rates near zero.
I have a Z420 at work and it's awesome. We bought some new beefy Z400's that are working really well also. 128GB RAM and dual 6 core Xeons.
Fujitsu isn't bad either. No faults in nearly 6 years, apart from a fan on an AMD FirePro. Decent dual-socket workstation are available too: Celsius R5xx line.
Hard to get those in the US.
Oh, ok. You can see them as often as Dell or HP here.
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@DustinB3403 said
Anyways for lunch I had a roast beef sandwich, with chips and a pickle spear.
Pedestrian but satisfying.
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So many screaming kids here today.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So many screaming kids here today.
On ML or in Houston?
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So many screaming kids here today.
On ML or in Houston?
Yes.
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Just posted a topic, and I need your help please
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This is exactly what I thought when I saw that trophy
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Getting ready to go grab some dinner before tonight's live event: Rifftrax (MST3K guys) live riffing the classic Mothra!
