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post #41 of 216
10/6/09 at 11:30pm
he he
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post #42 of 216
10/7/09 at 4:46am
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Originally Posted by dave-p View Post
lol you should call Dell and tell them there are alot of 8800 and 9800 cards for sale on Ebay - and they should go buy you one
Brilliant idea. Why did they not consider this? Cheaper for them as well.

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post #43 of 216
10/7/09 at 6:45am
A friend of mine suggested that I buy my own card and bill them for it. Not keen on that idea as they probably have no facility for refunds and will not do it without prior agreement.

As for the 120 number, I'm an EMEA customer. Should add something into my signature to reflect that. Anyways, a large number is a large number.
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post #44 of 216
10/7/09 at 6:52am
Being an EMEA member, you should have better chance to push Dell than the counterpart in USA. Go for it!

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post #45 of 216
10/7/09 at 7:02am
I'm going to give them until Friday. At that point they're a week late. I think that giving them a week is fair.
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post #46 of 216
10/7/09 at 9:48am
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Being an EMEA member, you should have better chance to push Dell than the counterpart in USA. Go for it!

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Why do you think that? Surely a US company would take more notice of a US customer?
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post #47 of 216
10/7/09 at 9:52am
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Why do you think that? Surely a US company would take more notice of a US customer?
You would hope so. But since when is customer satisfaction the number one motto here, or the norm even? With European Consumer Protection laws, these corporations feel the heat from the fire, thus moving faster.
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post #48 of 216
10/7/09 at 9:57am
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You would hope so. But since when is customer satisfaction the number one motto here, or the norm even? With European Consumer Protection laws, these corporations feel the heat from the fire, thus moving faster.
Makes sense. That might be, em, mentioned on my Friday call.
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post #49 of 216
10/7/09 at 10:28am
what is emea ? for a thicko
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post #50 of 216
10/7/09 at 10:35am
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Makes sense. That might be, em, mentioned on my Friday call.
Just to prove a point of the difference between Dell support (shortchanging) of USA customers vs European ones.

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post #51 of 216
10/7/09 at 10:35am
It stands for Europe, Middle East and Africa, but it's used mostly for Europe.
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post #52 of 216
10/7/09 at 10:41am
yes but what does it mean in relation to dell ? im in the uk btw
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post #53 of 216
10/7/09 at 10:48am
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yes but what does it mean in relation to dell ? im in the uk btw
now this is where the exception settles in. Dell considers UK USA (speaking the same language).

But this is no joke. Consumers in Continent Europe get better support from Dell, HP etc ... than the ones outside it - and UK is outside of Continent Europe
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post #54 of 216
10/7/09 at 2:11pm
We should have a new thread to count how many people get replacement laptops out of Dell for this M1730/duff GPU issue. Maybe a thread with a vote?
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post #55 of 216
10/7/09 at 4:07pm
Is there anything I can do to prevent mine from dying? my warranty just expired and I'm so scared now lol of it dying. I don't play a WHOLE lot of games these days as I'm an occasional gamer but I just like having the power there ready to use when needed. Would getting a laptop cooler help?

My Current M1730 has 8800 GTX sli, X9000 now, and SSD drives. I don't overclock my system and I went with SSD for the lower temps, I'm trying to do everything in my power to prevent it from overheating because of the amount of horror stories I keep hearing.
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post #56 of 216
10/7/09 at 4:13pm
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Is there anything I can do to prevent mine from dying? my warranty just expired and I'm so scared now lol of it dying. I don't play a WHOLE lot of games these days as I'm an occasional gamer but I just like having the power there ready to use when needed. Would getting a laptop cooler help?

My Current M1730 has 8800 GTX sli, X9000 now, and SSD drives. I don't overclock my system and I went with SSD for the lower temps, I'm trying to do everything in my power to prevent it from overheating because of the amount of horror stories I keep hearing.
Keep it cool, visually checking out the vents and clean out the heatsink will definitively help prolonging the life of any notebooks. Then just cross your fingers that the parts just don't die because of age.

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post #57 of 216
10/7/09 at 5:17pm
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my warranty just expired
If you're worried about it, give them a call and see if they'll take your money for a warranty extension. NBD should be fine. I'll be surprised if they don't.
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post #58 of 216
10/7/09 at 8:21pm
yes...if your warranty has just expired Dell will still extend it...and i would suggest that considering the money invested in your latop.

Short of that, Honestly I would sell it, and buy a AW M17x
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post #59 of 216
10/7/09 at 9:05pm
bit of advice please
im getting no place through xp support 5 weeks + do you think my account manager from the small business side would help ? my m1730 was bought from dell sb although this is my home pc not a business one .
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post #60 of 216
10/7/09 at 9:09pm
It would not hurt to try. I found I always got better support from the SB unit.
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