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We have 5 Gateway systems and have had problems with 2 of them, motherboard died, in one of the units it did it twice within a few months. No problem with the Dell servers or workstations. I guess your mileage varys with all manufactuer's. My current position has me working with IBM ThinkCentre's, which come with NO Windows XP CD, you have to burn a set of 4 restore images which I hate. -t On 7/27/05, Bryan Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I don't necessarily think that he would be finding fault with Dell over the > drives, but rather finding fault with Dell for letting the bad drives slip > through quality control. Most manufacturers have a burn-in and stress test > procedure that they do before a machine ships. > > I was checking out the CSTORE web site for other vendors that MSU has > agreements with and it appears that the only choices would be Gateway, > HP/Compaq and IBM. > > > > On 7/27/05 2:09 PM, "Peter J Murray" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > I really don't think it's a Dell problem, as they just use Western > > Digital, Seagate, or what else. A long time ago, the department I was > > working for as a student had an order of 9 Computer Warehouse machines, > > and all of the hard drives eventually went. They were all Western > > Digital drives. I think the problem is when you order all at once, you > > get drives from the same run (as one might expect), and if that run is > > bad, they'll all go bad. If you were to order Gateway or someone else, > > it wouldn't matter, as they all use commodity drives. > > > > David McFarlane wrote: > > > >> Five out of five recently purchased Dell Optiplexes came with > >> defective hardware that had to be replaced under warranty. This is > >> unacceptable. I can no longer recommend Dell desktop to my users for > >> future purchases, until Dell gets it's quality control back in order. > >> But I don't know what to recommend as an alternative. Any opinions? > >> > >> -- David McFarlane, Research Technology Specialist > >> Dept. Psychology, Michigan State University > >> [log in to unmask] www.msu.edu/~mcfarla9 > >> Voice: (517) 353-0799 Fax: (517) 353-1652 > > -- > Bryan Murphy > Computer/Network Coordinator > Plant Research Labs and Plant Biology > [log in to unmask] | [log in to unmask] > -- Troy D Murray Blog: http://troymen.blogspot.com/