My only Dell was before all this. It was so long ago that you had to
pay an extra $50 to get the original DOS and Windows 3.1 floppies...
The OS (DOS 6) and Windows were pre-installed and already paid for...
That machine had some intermittent factory defects until the day it died...
(The BIOS gave a criptic error that it took me 4 years to track down.
Why Dell never "decoded" what it meant was beyond me...)

I bought a Packard Bell with a restore problem.
The modem stopped working when I tried to get the free Quicken Basic
running. (All I did was tell it to install from the PB factory CD or the HD.
(It came with it free...)
The restore disk announced it was the wrong one for that machine...
I figured the machine was the wrong one for me and returned it inside the
thirty day period while I could...  (And another builder was born... <grin>

                                          Rick Glazier


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From: <JMARTY94103
>I have the same question about Dell computers.  I put a new HD on a 2001 Dell Dimension 8200 with Win XP Pro (I used a Dell OEM XP
>Pro CD), and it never ran right after that.  It is the slowest running installation of XP I have ever seen.  It boots, but slower
>than molasses in January.  When I bought the computer it had Win Me on it. The 8200 is now sitting in a closet gathering dust
>because no one could stand using it.  We timed the boot at nearly 15 minutes, and there wasn't that much software on the machine.
>These proprietary machines must have some built-in self destruct mechanism if you remove their special partition.



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