NULL.in » dell http://www.nalinmakar.com Nalin's Labyrinth Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:07:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 My Friend’s Laptop http://www.nalinmakar.com/2008/12/10/my-friends-laptop/ http://www.nalinmakar.com/2008/12/10/my-friends-laptop/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:50:31 +0000 Nalin http://www.nalinmakar.com/?p=548 One of my friends is using a really messed up Dell Inspiron 8600 right now that should have actually been decommissioned ages ago… Almost the whole of left half of the screen is useless and it needs a support to hold up the screen while in use. Pictures below show what I am talking about:

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]]> http://www.nalinmakar.com/2008/12/10/my-friends-laptop/feed/ 0 Inspiron 8600 Problems (Update) http://www.nalinmakar.com/2005/10/27/inspiron-8600-problems-update/ http://www.nalinmakar.com/2005/10/27/inspiron-8600-problems-update/#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:40:50 +0000 Nalin http://www.nalinmakar.com/2005/10/27/inspiron-8600-problems-update/ Well, I received my laptop back yesterday, but I saw that they had only replaced the LCD screen. Also, the body had small peices broken off at two sides and one of the rubber supports for the laptop’s base was also missing.

In a short while, while transferring data onto the laptop from the backup, the same problem happened again and the computer hanged.

I called Dell support again and now they have created another case and I will have to send the laptop back to them. While talking, the Dell technician actually told me that I should re-install my OS ! When I asked him If he could explain further, he put me on a hold and then came back saying that they will replace the video card this time.

I just hope that they are able to fix the problem.

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]]> http://www.nalinmakar.com/2005/10/27/inspiron-8600-problems-update/feed/ 0 Dell 8600 problems http://www.nalinmakar.com/2005/10/23/dell-8600-problems/ http://www.nalinmakar.com/2005/10/23/dell-8600-problems/#comments Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:20:08 +0000 Nalin http://www.nalinmakar.com/2005/10/23/dell-8600-problems/ ok…. so this is the second time I had a problem with my laptop. Previously it was the adapter which stopped working because of the power cord, but that was replaced soon.

Lately, the laptop’s screen had been hanging after becoming grainy (pic1, pic2) . It all started after I updated the BIOS to version A14. I still havent been able to understand why the problem was happening. Even though the problem was there for a month or so (it happened about 10 times), I thought it would get fixed. So when, after updating the BIOS again, when the screen gave me problem, I called up Dell support. Luckily, it was on the last day of my warranty.

My laptop has now gone for repair and I have been told that the graphics card and the LCD screen will be replaced. I hope it all works out fine….

I am really missing my laptop…. :-(

Update 06/01/06: Due to my screw up during synchronizing process of this blog, the images abouve have been lost. Hence a tag screwed up has been added to this post.

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