( If you're not thoroughly bored with this subject yet... )
I'm just wondering whether it's worth it to keep working on the thing. I don't need anything more off of it, and it seems like it's just one thing breaking after another.
OTOH, I've got another few months on the warentee, and if I can get it into working condition, it'll still be reasonably good. 30 gig drive, 1.7 ghz processor, DVD/CD-RW, Win XP... Could be pretty useful to someone out there, I'm sure. Seems a shame to waste that potential.
Guess I'll poke around a bit more, see if I can get the OS into workable shape, see how bad the "popping" is, talk to Dell support, and see what I can work out. When I get the time and motivation...
We'll see how it goes.
I'm just wondering whether it's worth it to keep working on the thing. I don't need anything more off of it, and it seems like it's just one thing breaking after another.
OTOH, I've got another few months on the warentee, and if I can get it into working condition, it'll still be reasonably good. 30 gig drive, 1.7 ghz processor, DVD/CD-RW, Win XP... Could be pretty useful to someone out there, I'm sure. Seems a shame to waste that potential.
Guess I'll poke around a bit more, see if I can get the OS into workable shape, see how bad the "popping" is, talk to Dell support, and see what I can work out. When I get the time and motivation...
We'll see how it goes.