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Dell Poweredge Server €149 exVAT
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I'm quite a lengthy story about my server.
Monday: Ordered it through the EPP link for €188 about 2.30PM and got my Internet Acknowledgement e-mail. The IR reference and e-mail address showed no order record on the website. Said I'd give it 24 hours for it to appear.
Tuesday: At about 3PM, it still wasn't on the site. Rang them about it and got through to a sound bloke who said sometimes orders on the Net tend to disappear (how reassuring!) and that if i give him the details of the server, he'll put through the order again. Now i didn't really want to do this because I knew if he put it through with the details i gave him, I wouldn't be getting the EPP discount. So i said i was away from my desk and forget the exact details so I'd send him on the Internet Acknowledgement e-mail with the details (and €188 price tag)!
So I sent it on and he never got back to me but around 8PM that night, i got an e-mail from another Dell agent telling me she put through the order and attached a PDF of it with the €188 price tag and all. I was all in the clear!
Wednesday: Got a call from the guy who i was talking to on the phone originally saying he didn't get a chance to put through my order yesterday and that it was an incorrect price and cannot be honoured. I then said to him i got an order confirmation from one of your colleages who put it in at that price so i'm not believing this misprice thing if your colleague successfully honoured it for me. He said he's gonna look into it and talk to his manager about it. And that he'd ring me in the afternoon. Got no call!
Today: At about 11.45AM, i got a phone-call from him saying sorry he's only getting back to me now and that i will get the server at that price. And for any other sales enquiries i have to phone him directly.
So whether i'll get it or not now - have had no order confirmation but the €188 is still reserved on my card!0 -
I'm quite a lengthy story about my server.
Monday: Ordered it through the EPP link for €188 about 2.30PM and got my Internet Acknowledgement e-mail. The IR reference and e-mail address showed no order record on the website. Said I'd give it 24 hours for it to appear.
Tuesday: At about 3PM, it still wasn't on the site. Rang them about it and got through to a sound bloke who said sometimes orders on the Net tend to disappear (how reassuring!) and that if i give him the details of the server, he'll put through the order again. Now i didn't really want to do this because I knew if he put it through with the details i gave him, I wouldn't be getting the EPP discount. So i said i was away from my desk and forget the exact details so I'd send him on the Internet Acknowledgement e-mail with the details (and €188 price tag)! So I sent it on and he never got back to me but around 8PM that night, i got an e-mail from another Dell agent telling me she put through the order and attached a PDF of it with the €188 price tag and all. I was all in the clear!
Wednesday: Got a call from the guy who i was talking to on the phone originally saying he didn't get a chance to put through my order yesterday and that it was an incorrect price and cannot be honoured. I then said to him i got an order confirmation from one of your colleages who put it in at that price so i'm not believing this misprice thing if your colleague successfully honoured it for me. He said he's gonna look into it and talk to his manager about it. And that he'd ring me in the afternoon. Got no call!
Today: At about 11.45AM, i got a phone-call from him saying sorry he's only getting back to me now and that i will get the server at that price. And for any other sales enquiries i have to phone him directly.
So whether i'll get it or not now - have had no order confirmation but the €188 is still reserved on my card!
sounds like dell were caught on the hop, with the extra EPP discount. Seems they tried to cancel as many as possible but some sales rep's still put them through at that price. Great all the same 0 -
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How'd you work that out?magicbastarder wrote: »there's possibly some company out there who have lost their EPP scheme with dell...
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Kaiser2000 wrote: »Update posted in the Tweaking/Modding thread... short version - it's working with a 7300 LE
So you filed notches into your graphics card?
I'm considering cutting off the notches of the PCIe x8 slot in my machine instead. But that would void warranty though.
My graphics card is a 3-year old PCIe x16 ATI Radeon X800 SE, from my old Dimension PC.
Any advice?
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Modding PCIe slot on SC440:
http://www.davtar.org/blog/?p=24
Related info, modding older SC420:
http://www.poweredgeforums.com/showthread.php?t=1899
http://www.tkdan.com/SC420/
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LawnMower Man wrote: »Got my pair of servers today as well!
Might have a stab at getting xp going on it later on.
Do you have to cut a bit out of the slot or the graphics card to make it fit?
Which slot is it you use?
X4 slot. I did it last night and it's working fine.
Check out my post in the thread in Tweaking and Modding.0 -
I wanted to put XP on my machine but it just won't work! It goes through the full install (about 30mins) and then when it gets to start XP it just hangs when the "knight-rider" lights come on!!! It will start in safe mode OK but can't get XP working fully. After 3 attempts we gave up and installed Vista instead, which is working fine. I rather have it running XP instead though. Anyone have any ideas? I should add that I tried two different copies of XP both with SP2 with no joy.
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I wanted to put XP on my machine but it just won't work! It goes through the full install (about 30mins) and then when it gets to start XP it just hangs when the "knight-rider" lights come on!!! It will start in safe mode OK but can't get XP working fully. After 3 attempts we gave up and installed Vista instead, which is working fine. I rather have it running XP instead though. Anyone have any ideas? I should add that I tried two different copies of XP both with SP2 with no joy.
To the best of my knowledge windows install with xp sp2 doesn't have the SATA drivers installed ...
You'll want to check out slipstreaming Windows XP SP2
http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/winxp-sp2-bootcd.html0 -
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You might have a problem, if for no other reason than if you got the xeon upgrade, as a lot of us did... your average home mobo will probably not accept a xeon cpu. I could be wrong, i have never looked into putting a xeon in a home system.
Oh i got mine on monday, so far i have taken it out of the box and took a quick look inside. No controller card, i do have the xeon sticker so i assume i will have a xeon inside
I will power it on at the weekend and decide what to do with it.. damn bargain.. i had no need of this at all At best i can replace my media centre with it as it might make a little less noise. 0 -
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Just modded the PCIe slot and stuck in a 7300GT ( €50 on dabs.ie )
now getting the following score on Windows Vista experience meter :
Which video card u used
This one ?
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB DDR2 PCIE DVI TVO
Or that one ?
Dabs Value NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 128MB DDR3 PCIE DVI TVO
Thanx0 -
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Another successful upgrade to report here (typing on it as I speak)!
Just received a 7600 GS graphics card I got on Ebay for 35 euro (passive cooling). Cut out the slot using a soldering iron with a fine tip, used a box cutter blade to clean up the debris. Plastic melts out real easy, no problem, about a 10 minute job.
Stuck in a cheapo PCI sound card and hey presto! Both 7600GS and sound card worked first time (Ubuntu install off the CD, recognized and installed hardware drivers first time, I can see some advantages of open source already). Machine is running pretty quiet, might be tempted to use it as a media PC, I have a big sideboard unit downstairs beside my TV into which the unit should fit. I will be upgrading the 2nd 80GB HD (it's disabled by default) to a 320 GB or larger unit in a week or two. Also might do a dual-boot install of Windows and stick in an extra GB of RAM (ECC only apparently).
All-in-all, an excellent bargain alert and a fine way to start the New Year. 0 -
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