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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Grief
join:2004-04-05
St John'S, NL
|  the upgrade from hell....I've had a few of those 
This is where Dell helps,either installing your new bios(not sure what bricked means  ) 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 |
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jouno53
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join:2006-03-04
United State | reply to ninjatutle
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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| 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 | Wouldn't hurt to try. |
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ninjatutle
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loot | 
lemon |
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 |
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The Flash
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Toronto, ON | Next time, don't buy a Dell. |
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Joe12345678
join:2003-07-22
Des Plaines, IL | reply to ninjatutle
I don't think the dell bios let's you get the full use of ram with good timings |
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