After spending over 100 hours (not an exaggeration) with Dell technical support during the past two (2) months trying to resolve hardware problems with my Vostro 420 system, and after having technical support come to my residence on 4 separate occasions to replace the motherboard, the ram, the power supply and finally the video card, I still have a non-working computer. The PSU was DOA. The refurbished video card lasted all of 4 hours before dying. I spent from 4:30 p.m. until nearly 7:30 p.m. on the telephone trying to resolve the latest problem(s) with the unit with no success. In the process, the on-site technical support managed to damage (fry) a $1,500.00 MO drive while installing the PSU. I cannot strongly enough disrecommend Dell computers based upon this experience. Sincerely disgusted, Larry Southerland P.S.: I am writing this on my Toshiba notebook computer. --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk OR To subscribe to the mailing list, send an email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject. To unsubscribe send email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject. To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join our separate PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------