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A long Dell chat with Rahul and Mohammed
A regular client brought me an XPS M1530 laptop with symptoms of hard
drive failure. The system is under Dell's Complete Care warranty, so it is entitled to a hard drive replacement. People with warranties on computers contact me regularly because they do not want to spend the hour I spent today to get them to send me a replacement hard drive, but DO NOT schedule a Dell service tech please! Rahul was misinformed that pressing Fn together with the Power On button activates firmware diagnostics. I don't think so. They appear to be the same ones from the diagnostic partition. He was also unable to answer the question of what to do if the diagnostic partition is hosed. He thought that there were firmware diagnostics. I did not know about the Fn-Powerswitch key combination. Is this something found only in newer Dell laptops, and if so, beginning when. I also ran Western Digital's hard drive diagnostic, which told me that 117 sectors had been repaired, and it did not even attempt to run any more tests. Perhaps the system took a hit or a bump or a jolt after two years? I wonder where Rahul and Mohammed are? Pakistan? Afghanistan? An interesting hour, to say the least... Ben Myers |
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