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I have my second Dimension 8400 in 2 months. The original never ran
well, since DEP kept crashing programs like Windows Explorer, Internet
Explorer, etc right out of the box. I disabled DEP and then started
intermittently getting Blue Screens of Death and system lockups. Many
system restores and it will sometimes run for days and then start
acting up again. Finally after countless hours spent on hold and
trying to understand what tech support was telling me due to
communication issues with Dells Tech support, they finally agreed to
gave me a replacement 8400. This replacement arrived 3 days ago, and
after unboxing and connecting to a monitor , immediately started
crashing when trying to Scan drive C, and refusing to do a Live Update
of Norton Anti Spyware 2005 ( which is Anti virus, Firewall and
everything rolled into one) . I started searching around the Internet
and I am reading countless other complaints about similar issues.
I contacted Dell again, and after 3 hours on hold, Dell at first
telling me that this time I will have to pay for any additional help
with my several hours old PC, they finally agreed to send me yet
another 8400 ( this will be the 3rd one) . My question is, will I
probably have a similar problem with the 3rd one, and would I be
better just to return everything to Dell and have a PC built for me by
a local company? The main use for this PC is Microsoft Flight
Simulator ( I am a Pilot) and that is the only reason I bought what I
thought would be a better machine than the Dimension 2400 I had, which
is and has been trouble free.
Bob
I have my second Dimension 8400 in 2 months. The original never ran
well, since DEP kept crashing programs like Windows Explorer, Internet
Explorer, etc right out of the box. I disabled DEP and then started
intermittently getting Blue Screens of Death and system lockups. Many
system restores and it will sometimes run for days and then start
acting up again. Finally after countless hours spent on hold and
trying to understand what tech support was telling me due to
communication issues with Dells Tech support, they finally agreed to
gave me a replacement 8400. This replacement arrived 3 days ago, and
after unboxing and connecting to a monitor , immediately started
crashing when trying to Scan drive C, and refusing to do a Live Update
of Norton Anti Spyware 2005 ( which is Anti virus, Firewall and
everything rolled into one) . I started searching around the Internet
and I am reading countless other complaints about similar issues.
I contacted Dell again, and after 3 hours on hold, Dell at first
telling me that this time I will have to pay for any additional help
with my several hours old PC, they finally agreed to send me yet
another 8400 ( this will be the 3rd one) . My question is, will I
probably have a similar problem with the 3rd one, and would I be
better just to return everything to Dell and have a PC built for me by
a local company? The main use for this PC is Microsoft Flight
Simulator ( I am a Pilot) and that is the only reason I bought what I
thought would be a better machine than the Dimension 2400 I had, which
is and has been trouble free.
Bob