Posts by Chudd

Good CyberP! Glad to hear it I played the first part of oblivion to get the feel of it before the machine went back. Niiiiice. (the dead pixel glared like a red demon's eye the whole time though so I'm glad I sent it back)

Yep "sudo" is what you use to execute commands with root priveleges and iirc you use your own password since the root account is disabled. The point of it seems to be to prevent you working continually as a root user i.e....

Greetings fellow rep whores :-) Is this the right refuge for a traumatised ex-AW customer who will be ordering a M1710?

Hey CyberP! How's your system? Still going strong? As I am still laptopless, I bet my oblivion fix from watching the "Making of" DVD that came with the collectors edition. Plus, the coin might come in handy helping me decide...

Quote: Originally Posted by jclyde6108 2nd dvd-rw drive not recognizing any disk i put in it...hmmm. 1st one works though. hate to rma whole machine. This is probably the curse of the slave NEC 6750a DVD...

Hi Shazza, Thanks, I would like to hang around. You're a nice mob here. Maybe one day I'll get one of those water cooled alienware desktop machines. Then I won't have to wear the "Guest" name tag when I visit I'm at a...

Hi all, Here's an update and an example of superb CS: once again AW Customer Service in Europe has proven to be simply excellent. I called them yesterday morning and spoke to D, a CS rep who I had spoken with a couple of times...

Morning all Again thanks for the support. It is good to have people in the know who I can discuss this with. @octop8: I will admit to being somewhat unimpressed with the QC checks of AW so far but if it hadn't been for the...

Thanks for your support...I am too disappointed to write about this now without degenerating into a rant, so I am off to bed. I'll let you know how things pan out...

<Self pity mode ON> Gutted....almost too gutted to speak...wtf is going on here... Replacement machine, brand-spanking new. Lower drive is a dud PLUS I now have a bright red stuck pixel (CORRECTION: and a black dead pixel). So,...