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Over the last 6 years I was the proud owner of the XPS600 but yesterday I went to load it and the PC wouldn’t load or boot it kept shutting down on me.

I started replacing parts like the video card, hard drive, cd and dvd rom but nothing worked. I did some research online and it turns out this is a known issue for my pc where these caps blow out and my mother board dies.

So here I am with 2, 22 inch hdtv screens, 500 gigs, 4 gigs ddr2 ram 2, 256 SLI 7600 Gforce vid cards and no mother board. I talked with the IT guys here in our company and due to the age of my P4 3.2 gig processor I was best of looking at buying something new.

Like a kid in a candy store look out I’m on a shopping spree. There’s not many things I like to have the best of in life but when it comes to technology I’m the biggest geek you’re ever going to meet. I like fast computers as you can tell from my last purchase. That XPS600 was the bomb in it’s day.

So the question of the day is what did I end up buying. After doing research online I wanted to buy something that would give me speed, performance and the power to run some good games if I ever felt like gaming again. To be honest ever since I owned blog engage I haven’t done any gaming at all and my priorities have totally changed.

I’ve been a customer of Dell now for over 6 years. I must admit it was rocky at first with the XPS support just being createdand all but after about a year the support was simply amazing. Yes communication issues are still in affect but Dell is very good for fixing your issues even if it means sending a tech professional to your home. I never had many issues but at one point I did have a tech come and see me with zero cost.

Seeing the overall positive experience I had I decided to buy another dell product. Mind you I’m getting married in august so I couldn’t spend too much without getting killed. Seeing I have the monitors I could save myself some pretty decent money. After looking at what Dell had to offer I decided to go with the following.

STUDIO XPS 9000

Intel® Core™ i7-920 processor(8MB L3 Cache, 2.66GHz), 64bit, 6GB Tri-Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1066MHz – 6 DIMMs 750GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive, ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5.

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April 30, 2010 | Category: Technology | 9 Comments

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My name is Brian and I’m a Graduate of Business Administration Marketing. I work full time in Sales and Marketing. I’m a young and upcoming webmaster and note all my learning’s here on my blog. I am also the owner of blogengage a social network I created specifically for bloggers and blog serp a voting based blog directory.

9 Responses to "My PC will not boot it just keeps shutting down"

Archon Digital
Twitter: archondigital

(April 30, 2010 at 4:30 pm) | Permalink

Since you’re already a Dell customer why not opt for an Alienware rig. An Area-51 ALX Desktop to be exact.
.-= Archon Digital´s last blog ..Webfaction, Hosting that Sucks =-.

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- bbrian017
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  (April 30, 2010 at 4:41 pm) | Permalink
  
  I wish isn’t that PC amazing! I’m already in the dog house when I try to explain this purchase to my soon to be wife lol.
  
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  - Archon Digital
    Twitter: archondigital
    
    (April 30, 2010 at 4:49 pm) | Permalink
    
    LOL! The one you chose is also good deal and can scale up when you later decide to upgrade.
    
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Jimi Jones
Twitter: JimiJones

(May 1, 2010 at 1:18 pm) | Permalink

Congrats on the new workhorse!
Man that thing looks great.

I have the XPS Gen 5 Dimension and have been thinking about swapping out the HD simply because of age. Everything works like new, no issues whatsoever, but the machine is now in it’s 5th year. It’s been a tremendous workhorse but I see computers as aging at a 3 to 1 ratio, meaning this machine is getting along now. I run mine pretty much 24/7 and think it’s time to start thinking ahead.

What do you think, Brian?
.-= Jimi Jones´s last blog ..The Perception Game – How Your Brand Can Be Created by Others =-.

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Selurus
Twitter: selurus

(May 2, 2010 at 1:41 pm) | Permalink

Wow! That’s a real mean machine.
Congratulation.
Yeah, I too rarely play games since I’ve got my self hosted blog. Tinkering with the settings and thinking of new blog ideas is my new pastime.
.-= Selurus´s last blog ..May Mission =-.

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Archon Digital
Twitter: archondigital

(May 2, 2010 at 6:00 pm) | Permalink

A lot of the bloggers I met, one way or another, was into gaming before they started blogging. Yeah I kinda miss the gaming days but I rarely have time for it now
.-= Archon Digital´s last blog ..Webfaction, Hosting that Sucks =-.

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Albert
Twitter: albertalbs

(May 3, 2010 at 5:14 am) | Permalink

Hi brian, Better go for assembled PC. Here in India, we won’t believe branded PC. Its like a USE and Throw like product.

Hope you will get Good PC soon…
.-= Albert´s last blog ..Learn and Play Golf in Aquitaine =-.

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rsmith

(October 3, 2010 at 5:49 pm) | Permalink

Nice new machine. I’ve not upgraded to a64 bit yet. My software is not compatible.
Not considered a Dell before. I have always built my computers myself until I switched to laptops.
All the best with the new machine.
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