On Thursday 14 February 2008, Hans Henry von Tresckow wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>> Ramesh wrote:
>> > Hi Larry.
>> >
>> > I have a HP DV6040US & I do see the same problem. Initiallly, when I
>> > hit this problem a year back, it was figured out to be a mother board
>> > issue and HP fixed it by replacing the motherboard. I am seeing the
>> > same problem for the past 10 days. The mini pci doesnt get detected,
>> > for every 10 reboots it gets detected once-in-a-while. It looks like
>> > chronic condition with HP Laptops & my laptop went out of warranty & I
>> > luckily had it extended, not sure if this is a bcm chipset issue or
>> > HP's motherboard problem, planning to put a USB Wireless adapter to
>> > fix this problem.
>>
>> Thanks for the info. Perhaps mine will fail 4 times in the next two
>> years. My extended warranty has a "lemon" clause. If the item needs
>> hardware repair 4 times, you get the original purchase price toward a new
>> machine. My wife bought a new laptop in 2002 and has had it replaced
>> twice. All it cost us was the price of the new extended warranty.
>
>Larry, how do you get a warrenty replacement after you "void" the
>warranty by installing an alternate OS on your HP laptop?
I don't know how you do it, but when I bought an HP lappy 2 years ago now, I
put circuit city's manager on notice that they would face me in court if a
hardware problem showed up, and they refused to honor that extended warranty
just because they found linux on it. So far only the lightscribe capable dvd
drive has failed and it was replaced without question as I left a 20GB
windows partition bootable so they could run their test tools. That was one
of maybe a dozen times xp has ever been booted on that lappy.
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