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  2. [PC] Ask The Experts Thread

    in Techzone

    Posted

    BTW can the warranty extension be possible on monitors ? or is it just on DELL laptops & desktops ?

     

    My Dell SP2208WFP 3yr warranty is gonna expire in June or July 2011 , so far haven't encountered any problem from my monitor , DELL rocks. :dance:

    Call them up & tell me too :P

  6. [PC] Ask The Experts Thread

    in Techzone

    Posted · Edited by F@tm@n

    Reminds me of The IT Crowd:

     

    "Hello this is IT? ... Have you turned it off and on again? ... Have you checked that the power cord is inserted? ... Thank you"

    :lol: yeah !

     

    Damn I miss the show :(

     

    And got a call from Dell.. It's under 3 years warranty :dance:

  9. [PC] Ask The Experts Thread

    in Techzone

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    Are Dell monitors not covered under 3years of warranty?

     

    Anyways if you have sent them invoice, I guess they will provide warranty.

     

    EDIT - lol, just checked you mentioned power cord was loose :chair:

    Yeah even I thought it's covered for 3 years. Anyways mailed them again for an update on the warranty status.

    I checked all the plug end of the monitor with so many sockets, but it never occurred that the monitor end of the cable could also be loose :doh::suicide:

  12. [PC] Ask The Experts Thread

    in Techzone

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    Try Removing it from Window's components?

    My PC gets all PMS-ing whenever this particular entity is launched :P

     

    Anyways, new problem. :(

    My Dell (Yes beeches DELL :angry:) monitor S2409W crapped. It's not powering on. The problem started 4-5 days back when this would be a random occurrence but since today morning it's not powering on at all. Tried different sockets & different ports, nothing works :( ..

    Called up their CC & after telling the product number they insisted that 1 year is already over for this device. But I bought it on 23rd March 2010 and so they asked me to mail a scanned copy of the invoice (which also says 23rd March 2010). Did the same & now waiting for their reply. :|

    So how should I go about it now ? What to expect ? Any experiences/recommendations ?

     

    :|

  15. The Book Thread

    in General Chatter

    Posted · Edited by F@tm@n

    I dunno where to post this as we don't have a dedicated biker's section/thread (none that the search showed me anyway :| ), so it's going here:

     

    dsc00047tmo.jpg

     

    Hands down has to be one of the best biking magazine EVER ! The articles are awesomely supplemented with pictures and there is NO ADVERT in the whole freaking mag. Zilch. Zero. 200 glossy pages of pure unadulterated biking awesomeness ! :majesty:

    It's really exciting to see how far the xBhp community has come ! :majesty:

  16. Random stuff from the internet (not news)

    in General Chatter

    Posted · Edited by F@tm@n

    Something for gramps:

     

    Being married is a lot like being deaf. If you hear the same person talking day-after-day, you literally lose the ability to hear what that person is saying. I will give you two examples from my own life. Both are true. This one happened last week:

     

    Shelly: Do you want some carrot cake?

     

    Me: Hurricane? What hurricane?

     

    In that particular case, we eventually got to the bottom of it, but only because Shelly needed an answer. I estimate that half of the time she says lamp, I hear doorknob, and it doesn't really matter so we go on with our lives. I might spend a few seconds confused about the larger point, but I shake it off.

     

    Within a day of the carrot cake incident, I made an offhand comment to Shelly to the effect that she might enjoy a certain sport. That conversation went like this:

     

    Me: That's your new game, honey.

     

    Shelly: What did you call me?

     

    Me: (slower and louder) I SAID, "THAT'S YOUR NEW GAME, HONEY."

     

    Shelly: Oh. I thought you called me Jimmy Bean

     

    Me: Why would I call you Jimmy Dean

     

    Shelly: Not Dean, Bean. Jimmy Bean.

     

    Me: Why would I call you Jimmy Bean?

     

    Shelly: That's what I wondered too.

     

    Me: No, I said, "That's your new game, honey."

     

    Shelly: What's my new game?

     

    Me: I forget.

     

    As I'm sure you've learned, it's impossible to speak to a spouse if he or she is near running water, or using power equipment, or concentrating on something else, or eating something crunchy, or wondering if the squeak in the distance is the cat dying, or there is a child within a hundred yards. Amazingly, that covers 90% of every conversation you might attempt at home.

     

    Recently I discovered that spouses, like computers, must be booted up before they can hear what you say. Try walking into a room where your spouse is otherwise engaged and simply launch into your statement or question. Notice that your first sentence doesn't count. That might go like this.

     

    You: I think the ice maker isn't working.

     

    Spouse: What?

     

    In that example, the spouse had not yet booted into listening mode. You can solve this problem with what I call the boot up tone. It is a sound that serves no function except to say, "Shift to listening mode." I highly recommend that you use your spouse's first name as your boot up tone. People are programmed to hear their own names even when they won't notice other background noise. And I recommend speaking in the key of F, even if that isn't your normal range, because it's a great tone for penetrating background noise. It's also a good idea to stretch out your spouse's name a bit. I turn Shelly into She-e-e-e-e-lly. Try it at home. It works. But use your own spouse's name.

     

    I have the added disadvantage of being a serial mumbler. In my head, everything I say is clear and loud, sort of like Prince Charles. But I have been told that my actual sound is more like a corpse farting in a rolled up carpet. My semi-solution for that is to trick people into reading my lips while I talk. Even people who are not expert lip readers can get some extra comprehension from seeing mouths move.

     

    My method, which I share with you today, is to first get eye contact. If you are at home, start with your boot up tone. If that doesn't get you the eye contact you need, try a scary opening phrase such as "I didn't want to tell you this..." Anyone will give you eye contact after you use that phrase, even if you mumble it.

     

    Once I have tricked Shelly into giving me eye contact, I quickly stand on my tiptoes so my lips are where my eyes once had been then blurt out my message. The only downside is that I will later have to explain, maybe several times, why I opened with "I didn't want to tell you this." I usually handle that by eating potato chips and standing near running water.

    :lol::naughty:

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