Dell and Hamnation

A couple of days ago, I rejoiced in the acquisition of a new computer. Hold that thought. Said computer is malfunctioning. On Saturday, on two or three different occasions, the whole system locked up when I was trying to install via the CD drive. Earlier this evening, my personal tech support put in a call to Dell, and since then, a diagnostics function has been running. It coughed up an error message, at which time I nabbed this borrowed laptop, and hightailed it out of Dodge. My personal tech support does this kind of stuff all day long at work, so it's not really what he wants to do when he gets home. Love buys me what I'm sure money couldn't. Stay tuned to learn if Dell repents and recovers from the errors of its ways.