Dell mini 10 problems

[olimeads]

I took delivery of my dell mini 10 wednesday, and i have been loving it. I have installed firefox ect all is going fine until this morning.
I booted it up and i noticed that windows severns start icon had changed to a classic start button similar to XP classic. and it will not connect to my wireless.
I have a message
"the dependency service or group failed to start"

help
What have i done?


Oli

[olimeads]

and now the i cant get it to turn back on when the screen turns off after a few mins, the little light is still on though

[Jinx]

Doesn't sound healthy. Can you start it in safe mode and go back to a previous system restore point (turn it on and press F8 during the post screen)?

[LordGrover]

Call support - Dell is pretty good.
Don't leave it till Monday morning when the world and his wife call.

[olimeads]

i will try that, on the phone to dell now. 2 days old not good

[olimeads]

an engineer will be coming to reinstall windows and replace my hdd







on Monday

[LordGrover]

TBF that's 3 working hours away - pretty good I'd say, especially as it's not exactly the most expensive piece of kit.
You may have noticed, I'm a bit of a Dell fan-boy.

[olimeads]

i know its the soonest possible, not a big problem as i havent even got any files on it or had my full order delivered yet.
Still waiting for my case and bits i ordered at the same time.
quite funny really.

ahh well

[olimeads]

Jinx said:

Can you start it in safe mode and go back to a previous system restore point (turn it on and press F8 during the post screen)?

tried it but it has the same problems.
so what caused it firefox, spotify or the pistonheads POTW backgrounds i installed .

[Jinx]

olimeads said:

tried it but it has the same problems.
so what caused it firefox, spotify or the pistonheads POTW backgrounds i installed .

Normally too much pr0n but as you've only just got it - probably just a duff drive.

[Junior Bianno]

Is it a 10V? If so, maybe it's time for a hackingtosh

[LordGrover]

Why would anyone down-grade from W7 to macintosh?

[olimeads]

no thanks, i cant stand macs, and im not a gehyer.

[Junior Bianno]

Don't worry Oli - this is the safe way to use a mac. You're not allowed to own a Dell and be gay. It's the law!

[Junior Bianno]

LordGrover said:

Why would anyone down-grade from W7 to macintosh?

I've not had a bluescreen yet

[LordGrover]

Neither have I.