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.
So I called and wasted 30 mins of my time. The guy stated I was two months out of warranty but he would try to help this one time over the phone. You have to pay per call after warranty is over. He had me run to a series of test to see if the mobo was shot. Waste of time because the bios is cleared and obviously it will not post. I would need to fork over the dough and buy a new one. So I ordered a new one from a vendor.
The last of my bounty arrived today. So now the only old thing I'm using is the HD, DVD drive, case and AMD chip. Not what I intended
