iFgrin

In response to post #76084473. Good luck with Dell friend. Was a good company. At some point they Purchased Alienware, and between the two, they have very interesting suites of software that are useful and fun for gamers. AND after having purchasing TWO fairly high end rigs, one for Me & one for the GF for last Years Christmas [all brand name parts, upgraded ALL parts from the Basic parts listed on the Advertised Rigs] ... After waiting 3+ weeks on an RMA for a 1080i card to even be able to use one of them - I watched them BOTH Self-Deconstruct right in front of My eyes - due to BAD PARTS manufactured in China. I've got a $5500.00 graveyard of computer parts in the Media room. I walked away from both of them. I was not about to go thru the scale of RMA Hell, on the unbelievable amt of parts that failed on these machines. So ... I thought OK. Pre-Built but from a local outlet. There is a Best Buy an hour or so from Me. Uh-huh. Bought a nicely boxed R7 and a 13" Alienware R3 with an OLED screen. So - Why this long, drawn out diatribe hard8 - it's not YOU. Don't blame Yourself. After 3 month r so - The R7 freaked out - made the weirdest sounds I ever heard and went into the deadest of dead BOSDs I've ever seen. The MOBO fried with bang!. NO Bios key reboot/recovery of any kind possible. Took out the GTX 1080 & the 2TB HDD, but that's all she wrote on that piece of junk. Here's what I'm getting to - I struggled with Dells Optimize and Dells Support Assistant and suspected them from the start as 'Bad Actors.' I have UNINSTALLED those features on My R3, tracking down every file left on the machine best I could with REVO and personally going through all my C drive folders for any Dell Anything. Afterward I ran MS Update, and I'll be darned if MS didn't replace a number of files and drivers ... naming them Dell OEM ... but when I looked at the 'Manufacturer' of the driver or file...it's MS. I'm not advising You to do anything like that. But I am backing you up on Your intuition that something might be up with Dells Automatic Optimization and the other Similar software they have like that. Take it for what it's worth to You, but as far as I'm concerned, with issues like CVE, and with pretty much all of our computer parts, routers, Mobos, etc., manufactured in China - if China's gonna be shaky a player in this [OR Whoever - this NOT A CHINA! CHINA! CHINA! Post] - it's hard for Me to blame Any of Our Nexus brothers and sisters for doing things wrong - blaming either themselves or others, including the Nexus staff. Non-of Us wanted any of this. How can You get anything right if the equipment and the system is rigged?