Acadia opened this issue on Feb 12, 2007 · 116 posts
Tirjasdyn posted Wed, 28 March 2007 at 5:06 PM
Hrm..I love my dells.
buying the warrenty is a must with dell...it will give you a discount on the system in most cases and get you to th people who can help.
As for your issue....Dell sends out the full os with their computers but if you just try to install it on a new dell when they don't make xp drivers for their newer systems anymore..
Well you weren't gonna get that to work regardless.
I'm talking about the proprieitary stuff in dells, dell uses not proprietary stuff too but you need their drivers in order to make it work with the proprietary.
Now what you were wanting to do was fine but if you couldn't do it yourself it would have been better to go to custom shop where you can bring a knowledgable friend along.
Dells are excellent machines as long as you know enough to get not just get stuck. Kind of like anything in the computer world.
Dell is not a blank box company...you can upgrade and tweak but it's not near as custimizable hardware wise as a blank box.