Wow I just ordered an refurbished E6430 to use as a Linux server, does it suffer from the same issue? that's nuts. Why the f would Dell do that?
archive of page 1: https://archive.fo/5iQCF
There are 14 pages or so, I suggest people save every page of the discussion still in google cache and archive it, for instance page 2:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JO-IqO...
Since Google cache might be deleted at Dell's request. Don't just use screenshots, these can be easily doctored.
edit: corrected the model's name.