DELL Inspiron 5150
Well... Another 5150 has made its way in here. These are notorious for having a bad motherboard... The boards seem to last for 3 - 9 months on average. Dell sells new ones for $500. The only problem is that they're still selling the SAME defective motherboard.
Usually a manufacturer will issue a new revision of the board or something...
On top of that if you start talking about the defective machine in the Dell forums there is a good chance Dell will remove all of your posts. At the moment, if you go to the Dell forums and type in Dell 5150 reboot problem you will get around 500 posts...
The AC adapters for these are very fragile as well... That reminds me- i overnighted an AC adapter from Dell about 3 months ago which just arrived yesterday. I may just keep it- After a week of waiting and looking like a fool I had to buy the part from a third party- I spent 2hours and 10minutes on the phone w/ Dell reps from all over the planet attempting to cancel my order. VERY frustrating.
I have been upgrading/repairing PCs for 13yrs now and I have never seen such poor behavior from any company... (Well, maybe from a few small companies but they're gone now. )
Anyways, this particular 5150 is just sitting here for now while the customer thinks it over. We'll probably buy it and throw it into our growing pile of Dells... Later this year when we have more time we will explore the defects of the 5150 for possible solutions...
Usually a manufacturer will issue a new revision of the board or something...
On top of that if you start talking about the defective machine in the Dell forums there is a good chance Dell will remove all of your posts. At the moment, if you go to the Dell forums and type in Dell 5150 reboot problem you will get around 500 posts...
The AC adapters for these are very fragile as well... That reminds me- i overnighted an AC adapter from Dell about 3 months ago which just arrived yesterday. I may just keep it- After a week of waiting and looking like a fool I had to buy the part from a third party- I spent 2hours and 10minutes on the phone w/ Dell reps from all over the planet attempting to cancel my order. VERY frustrating.
I have been upgrading/repairing PCs for 13yrs now and I have never seen such poor behavior from any company... (Well, maybe from a few small companies but they're gone now. )
Anyways, this particular 5150 is just sitting here for now while the customer thinks it over. We'll probably buy it and throw it into our growing pile of Dells... Later this year when we have more time we will explore the defects of the 5150 for possible solutions...
1 Comments:
Yea the 5150 is Junk we are starting our own pile. Real hard to find at a decent price on Ebay to as everyone wants one.
By ReidMan, at 9:29 PM
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