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I know this is not the correct forum, but I have to tell you this: I bought a Dell system, some 2,5 years ago.. A state of the art P3-500.. wow.. Anyway, it came with a 3COM/USR winmodem and a Turtle Beach Montego II soundcard.
I have upgraded about everything in the system, but the soundcard. When I installed Win2K I went looking for drivers for the TB. On the TB site it said 'if your soundcard was provided with a Dell system, please contact Dell'. *sigh*.. okay, I went to the Dell site.. no win2K drivers however. I mailed them, and got the following response:
"Dear sir,
Unfotunatly Dell cannot give any support on any other operating system than
you system was shipped with."
I dont ask them to troubleshoot my system. I dont ask them drivers for some exotic OS.. Just plain Win2K drivers !! Can you believe a 2 year old system is unable to properly run Win2K ???
I had the same problem with my modem. It was just slightly different from the standard USR/3com one. Just different enough so that the oem drivers dont work. And then Dell doesnt bring out win2k drivers.
Its a rip-off, if you ask me.. WHats next ? A "Dell" Geforce3 that doesnt work with nvidia drivers ? And then they will tell you in a year or so: "sorry, we dont support winXP, because your system shipped with win2k".
Basically there is no advantage whatsoever to the "dell modified" peripherals.. there is just no driver support for future OS's. And they seem to make sure oem drivers dont work.
Thank you Dell.. never again.
---- Owner of the only Dell computer with a AMD chip
I have upgraded about everything in the system, but the soundcard. When I installed Win2K I went looking for drivers for the TB. On the TB site it said 'if your soundcard was provided with a Dell system, please contact Dell'. *sigh*.. okay, I went to the Dell site.. no win2K drivers however. I mailed them, and got the following response:
"Dear sir,
Unfotunatly Dell cannot give any support on any other operating system than
you system was shipped with."
I dont ask them to troubleshoot my system. I dont ask them drivers for some exotic OS.. Just plain Win2K drivers !! Can you believe a 2 year old system is unable to properly run Win2K ???
I had the same problem with my modem. It was just slightly different from the standard USR/3com one. Just different enough so that the oem drivers dont work. And then Dell doesnt bring out win2k drivers.
Its a rip-off, if you ask me.. WHats next ? A "Dell" Geforce3 that doesnt work with nvidia drivers ? And then they will tell you in a year or so: "sorry, we dont support winXP, because your system shipped with win2k".
Basically there is no advantage whatsoever to the "dell modified" peripherals.. there is just no driver support for future OS's. And they seem to make sure oem drivers dont work.
Thank you Dell.. never again.
---- Owner of the only Dell computer with a AMD chip