I am new to this community message board thing. I need someone to speak to and someone to hear me and help me with my problem. On February 14th I spoke with a Dell Chat person. I wanted him to fix the sound on my media player becasue it would not play the sound back to me from my DVD movies. Well to make a long story short this chat technician deleted my operating system and I am sitting here with a computer that is useless. and after he did that he hung up the remote phone on me and the regular phone. He was mad at me becasue i am not computer savvy as he is and did not do what he asked me to do in a specific amount of time. My computer was purchased on Jan.31st in the amount of $544.00 and some odd change and now I have nothing. I am trying to reach the Dell Corporate Office to report him and I just can't find the number or the information anywhere. can someone please help me. My telephone number is and my name is Viola. I want to return it for a refund but the price of the computers has went up already. It is now $569.00 for a new computer and I dont have that kind of money. I am offered a replacement but I have to wait 3 weeks for it. Why is this happening to me? I have my own business on the side and my computer is the tool i use to make extra money besides working on my computer for my job. I have to leave the comfort of my home and go to the library where my time is limited. Please help me. I need my computer now. the Dell Tech. did it and now i am the one who is suffering for it.
First of all, I would recommend NOT placing personal information on the forums. I know many forums are scanned by spam bots to add e-mail addresses to their mailing lists so I can just imagine what they'd do with phone numbers.
You should be able to restore your computer's operating system by pressing something like CTRL+F11 or just F11 alone while the computer starts up. (I don't remember which because I have yet to do recovery on a Dell).
If you have a recovery CD marked "OPERATING SYSTEM" that came with your computer, you will also be able to restore your OS that way. Turn on your computer, insert the CD, and then restart the computer (CTRL+ALT+DELETE, turn it off and back on, whatever).
Both these methods I suggested WILL ERASE ALL YOUR DATA and any programs you installed after you turned on your computer for the first time.
If you remember the case number that the tech gave you, you can report this to "Unresolved Issues".
You may also still have time to return your computer. You should call customer care about this.
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Posted February 18th, 2007 12:00
You should be able to restore your computer's operating system by pressing something like CTRL+F11 or just F11 alone while the computer starts up. (I don't remember which because I have yet to do recovery on a Dell).
If you have a recovery CD marked "OPERATING SYSTEM" that came with your computer, you will also be able to restore your OS that way. Turn on your computer, insert the CD, and then restart the computer (CTRL+ALT+DELETE, turn it off and back on, whatever).
Both these methods I suggested WILL ERASE ALL YOUR DATA and any programs you installed after you turned on your computer for the first time.
If you remember the case number that the tech gave you, you can report this to "Unresolved Issues".
You may also still have time to return your computer. You should call customer care about this.