jouno53
Palin 2012
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United State | Re: Can I upgrade or do I need a new system... You'll probably need a new PSU | |
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ninjatutle
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San Ramon, CA
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| Re: Can I upgrade or do I need a new system... I ordered a new one already. A Corsair 650TX - a 650W one @ $99 total 
I wish I would have never upgraded and gone with a full build instead or drop the whole gaming idea altogether. I flashed the bios yesterday and bricked the Dell. I didn't even get to play anything except for 10 mins of the COD 4 demo. Now I will wait until Monday to see if Dell will give me a new MB or I will have to order one. | |
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jouno53
Palin 2012
join:2006-03-04
United State | Aw man, that stinks. I hope Dell will help you out, let us know how it goes | |
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ninjatutle
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San Ramon, CA
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| Re: Can I upgrade or do I need a new system... I'm not going to even bother calling Dell. I am 2 months out of warranty. I read the Dell support forums and there are pages and pages of other people who have done the same. If I was still under warranty, they might send one out but in my case they wont. A new motherboard will cost $80-100. I'll just cough up the dough even though it wasn't fully my fault. I ran the bios updater from within Vista, there was an error. I reran the update, same error. Rebooted, now the bios is shot. Same problem others have ran into. | |
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The Flash
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Toronto, ON | Re: Can I upgrade or do I need a new system... Wouldn't hurt to try. | |
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The Flash
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Toronto, ON | Re: Can I upgrade or do I need a new system... Next time, don't buy a Dell. | |
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Des Plaines, IL | I don't think the dell bios let's you get the full use of ram with good timings | |
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the upgrade from hell....I've had a few of those 
) or supplying the operating system cause I'm not sure your hard drive will accept a motherboard switcharoo so you may need to repair your OS or reinstall(I'm assuming Dell didn't give you a cd of your OS).
I was going to say your processor was a little weak 
