Screw you, Dell

My computer in Libertyville was having trouble. Mainly because my little brother likes to mess with it and try to find every virus possible on the web, along with fifty versions of every spyware program known to man (hooray for Kazaa!). So I tried to fix it, in my own little way.

Scanned for viruses with some decent software, kill a few. Download Ad-Aware, fine over 400 suspicious components in the memory, registry and whatnot; I kill them too. Then a simple defrag and everybody is happy.

Then the damn dsl software won't connect to the internet. Alright, fine, no worries, it's probably just down right now. Except that the service is fine, the software just won't connect. Alright, so maybe ad-aware found and deleted something for the Ameritech DSL or something.

It's possible.

Then programs start giving those damn error messages. Not just any programs; EVERY FUCKING ONE YOU TRY TO RUN.

Okay, just a little odd.

Soon the computer refuses to start. It turns on, but apparently chokes on Windows. Every time.

Great. Well, time to give the old Dell Customer Support a call.

In India.

Maybe those people knew something about computers, or maybe just what was wrong with mine. It's unfortunate, however, that they knew practically no English. Or at least none that my mother (the one who had to deal with these fucknuts) could hear through their crazy ass [Indian] accent.

Finally, after hours and hours on the phone, and several disconnects, some real tech support gets done. From what I've been told, I guess they had my mom re-install Windows. And I suppose, as long as there aren't really any hardware problems, that should have worked.

Except the fucking [Indian] lead my mom through a "dirty install", of which my hard drive was not very appreciative. So it decided to end it's pathetic existence in a Dell computer and commited suicide.

So the dipshit [Indian]s sent us a new 2 GB hard drive to replace out old 20 GB. Fucking [Indian]s.

My mom ended up finally getting in touch with some white guy who worked for Dell, and they managed to successfully install Windows. Except that the computer doesn't really like the monitor anymore, so you can't change the res from it's original 640x480.

Sweet.

- = Fuck you, Dell. Fuck you. = -