Well I upgraded my laptop to kernel 2.6.26 and when I rebooted I got some errors about memory not being able to be allocated. So I decided to trouble shoot and see if I had bad ram. After I got done I went to put both sticks of ram back in and the laptop wouldn’t boot. After some investigation I found out whenever I had ram in the second dimm the laptop’s caps lock key would blink and I would get no display.
I contacted Dell via the chat interface and they told me they’d send me a shipping box. Well I got the box yesterday and shipped the laptop yesterday.
Dell claims that it is a faulty motherboard which sounds right. The rep I spoke to said I should have it back before August 20th! This means that I should have it back before school starts. I am curious to see if they spend the time to replace the motherboard or if they send me a brand new unit.
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