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biglugs

The PC also tried to install something on Norton I believe, and told me to uninstall and then reinstall, all of its own accord.

Me too - but you can't reinstall Norton because you don't get the disk! I'll probably uninstall it and install my copy of Systemworks instead.
Just put my new graphics card in - scored 8,600 in 3DMark03 with no overclocking but it got so hot (99C!) that I've had to put the optional fan on it. No spare headers on the motherboard but luckily I had a splitter cable. Card is still reasonably quiet though.
No problems with my HDD and I'm just ripping a CD to Media Player to see if that works too. NO - no MP3 encoder but it plays music fine from CD.

Bennifred

Well, after all that anticipation, my order hasn't been delivered as expected between 5 and 9 today. Have checked on the tracking site and it says:
BPO - Oxford No Access To Site

Does anybody know what that means? I can't find a number for WWI, and I don't suppose they'd be there now,anyway, but I am annoyed that no one has bothered to let us know it wasn't happening - they are the ones who arranged it after all! Has this ever happened to anyone else, and if so what was the outcome, please?

biglugs

Sorry not happened to me before.

Bennifred

Thanks for the reply, biglugs - I guess we'll just have to be patient for a bit longer! Have emailed the Dell people (I know it is the carriers rather than them, but it's the only contact details I have) to inform them of no show and no notification, so we'll see what they have to say. It'll probably turn up tomorrow when there's nobody home :rolleyes: .

biglugs

It'll probably turn up tomorrow when there's nobody home

More likely they will phone tomorrow to say there was no-one in between 5 and 9 when they tried to deliver it!! Then they'll say their next available slot is Thursday morning next week

smashed

Arghh...
again I posted last nite… but its not here.
I must be hitting the preview or something instead.

The Norton thing said that it cant restore a fault or something, and needs reinstalling. Oh well.

Personally Bennifred, I would phone 1st thing in the morning and complain about not receiving it. I waited for them to phone the following day when it happened to me, and they didn’t. By phoning them early, you have a better chance of it making it onto the van today, and arriving at your house.

steve9999

Reply from dell about the XP discs...
Thank you for contacting Dell Online Customer Care.
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>I am very sorry as we do not provide any restore Cd's and manuals anymore for Dimension systems.
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>I request you to contact technical support if you need to re-install any software as the backup of all softwares supplied to you is available on your hard drive.
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>Also the technical support agents will be able to help you to download the user manual from your hard drive. Technical Support Number: 0870 908 0800.
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>Sorry that we are unable to assist in this particular instance.
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>If you have any further queries do not hesitate in responding directly to this mail and I will be glad to assist you.

biglugs

Then try asking them how to reinstall Norton on its own without having to restore your entire pc to the factory settings.
I would be persistent - it worked before for me and I'm going to do it again with my latest machine.

steve9999

Aye i will do.Now i have a monitor question i upgraded to a 19inch ultrasharp
It's the first TFT i have bought.So far i am not too impressed.I seem to get ghosting or flickers when i work in photoshop with photo's(scroll the page) and when i scroll down certain webpages,this normal?.I have it connected via the DVI

steve9999

one more question! What's the warranty on the monitors we bought with the PC's...1yr or 3yr?
Cheers