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Contact the customer service ppls for they are amazing

No, they exist because you are ignorant, educate yourself and free your mind from the scum of tech support. Tech support makes money off of you not having the ability to do things for yourself, ditto other things like plumbers. Take courses, learn to do for yourself what others must pay for, it is a far cheaper, superior experience. Seriously the machine I home built made by Dell would cost something like $2000+, mine? $800 plus shipping and the parts are waaay better.

My warranty expired.

From my experience, Dell customer service is the worst...I will probably end up paying about $50 for them to tell me what's wrong with my computer. (I also had to pay $65 in September for a new AC adaptor.)

I like the point TS made about claiming it under my homeowners insurance...I mean, we can make a claim for the food in our fridge during a power outage...

I really don't want to have to buy a new computer. I was planning to get one in a year and a half when I start law school.

Sadly, I can read number 101 without much thought.

103. You have your own personalized Google homepage that informs you everytime Snopes.com has an update.
104. Every time you see an Urban Legend, you can say whether or not it's true without consulting anything else.

FUCK YOU amp!!!

I LOVE my dell!!!

Meg, this is what you do, coming as someone who HAS a dell and is obsessed with their customer service.

Contact the customer service ppls for they are amazing, do you still have a warantee on it? Cuz if you do they will just send you new crap for free.

When my battery broke I contacted them on their website and I was connected with a costomer service person online, they ran a few tests, and then all the sudden my internet died. I was super pissed and I thought I was going to have to start all over again. Instead my phone rings like 2 seconds later and it's the SAME customer service person calling to finish up.

They were very polite and helpful.

Don't listen to amp, dells=amazing

oh also, you should follow amps procedure otherwise. And, you should consider contacting your home insurance people if you have to buy a new computer, sometimes they have protections against power surges.

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Help would be appreciated...greatly.

Well your first problem is that you have a gateway desktop and a Dell notebook (dude, never ever get a dell) Make sure your dell's battery is not about to explode in a ball of flame then read the below

Well first you need to figure out exactly what that error message was because therein lies the way to know what solution you need. Have you rebooted your server at all? it seems likely that all the problems are coming from there which means it either got fried and you need a new one, or it's a reboot and reconnection, you may also want to talk to your internet provider.

what ever the problem is you need to follow this simple procedure to prevent it from happening again:
1. Go to Best Buy
2. Purchase enough surge protectors for all your big money electronics (TV, DVD, Computer, Router, Printer, Playstation, Etc)
3. ???
4. Profit

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95. You want to shove a stake through Mac OS
96. I can has firefox?
97. Or Opera? Opera's good too
98. Whenever you upgrade your homebuilt computer you yell "Power scotty! I need more power!" right before you boot with the new hardware
99. You have made your computer sound like HAL "I'm sorry dave, I can't do that"
100. You have don't 99 but you wish you'd thought of it sooner
101. l33t 5p34k m4k35 y00 5m1l3
102. You understood 101 without having to puzzle it out

94. You are already accepted into your top collage and a back up and you are still retaking the SAT and ACT.

Since this seems to be the place where the computer nerds congregate...anyone here want to help me?

I have a LinkSys wireless router, a Gateway desktop and Dell notebook (both XP Professional).

We had a power outage last night. My mom received a prompt on the home computer saying something about an expired IP address, which she ignored.

Now, when I go to connect on my laptop, it will give me "limited or no connectivity" through my usual connection. I went through the "repair connection" process, and it said my laptop was unable to renew the IP address.

I went online (on my home computer...the one I'm typing this from) and I followed the recommendations on this page. http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/windowsnetworkin1/ht/renewipaddrwxp.htm (both on the desktop and laptop).

I received an error message that it was unable to contact the DHCP server while renewing interface Wireless Network Connection.

It still won't connect properly.

I have rebooted my laptop severl times (after all of the different operations).

Help would be appreciated...greatly.

86. Not only do you build your own computer, you install Linux on it.
87. Then you triple-boot it with Windows and Mac OS, just to say that you could.
88. You actually know that it's possible (albeit illegal) to install a hacked version of Mac OS on a PC.
89. You also know why it's impossible to install a legit version of Mac OS on a PC.
90. You gave up Windows for a Mac a long time ago.
91. Not satisfied with the Linux distro you have, you compile your own version of Linux.
92. You find an old copy of MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 and run them in a virtual machine
93. Then you play old games on the virtual machine (SimEarth, anyone?).

I won't say all of this is true of me, but I won't say it isn't, either. (Except for #90, which is and always will be false.)

81. You refer to big words as "vocabulary"
82. Lists of new word to learn in english class make you laugh
83. Whenever you go the mall you always vist the bookstore
84. You read for pleasure
85. You actually read at all

80. You use big words everyday.

first, Meg, studying for the LSAT doesn't make you a nerd, that just makes you well prepared. Very stupid people still study for their LSATs cuz they need to in order to pass.

Second, Amp, I can name all 9 supreme court justices and I am not pre law.

Third, I am a cool nerd, I like that, that's not even humiliating.

By the way, my actual name is "Mega-Dorky High Nerd," which is hilarious because I'm pretty sure I'm actually a geek.

74. You no longer really think anything of writing a Supreme Court brief.
75. You've taken 8 years of a foreign language.
76. You continue taking it because it seems silly to stop.

77. You study for standardized tests.
78. You are considering teaching your own test prep class.

79. You always get all of the dumb kids in your group because your professors know that being in your group will help them pass...

67. You can build a computer
68. you will vehemently argue till the day you die that building it is way better then buying it
69. you think some people shouldn't be allowed on a computer
70. you want to strangle the "dude you getting a dell" gu"
71. your refered to as "the smart kid" in all your classes
72. you can't understand why people have issues with victorian and shakespearean english
73. you say that you speak a forgein language on applications because you know C++

Oh and I'm a Mega-Dorky Nerd God
you may now begin to bring me tribute

I am a "Mega-Dorky Light-Weight Nerd."

64. You have a graphing calculator next to your bed in case you need to do some calculations in the middle of the night.
65. You actually DO calculations in the middle of the night...
66. ...like last night.

Triple poster! Anyways, yeah, geeks and nerds are easy to confuse. By the way, I'm a cool nerd according to the nerd test. Oh yeah.

Double post (And triple if my original comes back) due to time running out.

Let's just say I'm nerdy. And awkward. And leave it at that.

62. You took the nerd test.
63. You took the nerd test version 2.0.

Grr. I went to post my nerd score post not thinking, went and deleted it, and now my lovely post has disappeared.

If it doesn't reappear, I must say to CLPO that I'm basing my things on my high school friends who are combinations of geeks and nerds, so I'll go into the realm of geek without meaning to.

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I think we are beginning to stray into the realm of the geek. One can be a nerd and a geek, but being a nerd does not automatically make one a geek and vice versa.

Sorry. I'm basing this on my high school friends who are a combination of both.

So my nerd score button has a trigger word, so I edited it out.

Nerd Test

I don't know my score because I forgot a question and when it prompted me to hit back on my browser to fill it in it blanked them all.