You sure his board will fit and support your new cpu anyhow? There were several different types of socket that the various sempron 1.8ghz cpus (11 different sempron cpus in the 1.8 ghz range) used. They were socket A, socket 754, socket 939, and socket AM2. Your new cpu is I would expect a AM2 socket. About 50/50 that his board isnt AM2.
At any rate I wouldn't blame Dell for it, you probably didn't check to see which socket the dell board has, and what it can support. To my knowledge Dell has never realy used custom sockets/cpus. They have however in the past used specialy keyed memory so that only dell purchaced memory works on their boards. Though I don't know if they still do it.
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