Miark wrote: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:48:42 -0600, Ron wrote: > > > >>>Ron, if someone bought a Dell machine with XP installed and >>>took it off, replacing it with Linux, do you know if it >>>would invalidate their guarantee? >> >>I'm not really sure. I can't see how it would affect hardware >>warranties, but it might throw some semi-skilled service tech >>for a loop 8^). > > > Remember what happened when trying to install 10.1 (I think > it was) on a LG drive? It killed the drive! I also understand > that driving a video card with the wrong settings can destroy a > monitor. I've never done that, but I've had a couple occassions > where Mandrake/Mandriva chose the wrong rates and caused the > monitor to do ugly things that worried me. Point being, there > are ways for software to affect hardware. >
You can't blame Mandrake for LG using a non-ADAPI-standard address - that's where the fault lay. IIRC, they had produced a firmware upgrade for it even before Mandrake released 9.2 (which was the version). Thedrive could also be revived, so it wasn't dead 'just sleeping'. It was Mandrake that got all the bad publicity, though. Also had the strange monitor effects, but hit control-alt-backspace immediately and haven't killed any. -- "Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is." --Texas Governor George W. Bush, April 9, 1999, on the US intervention in Kosovo
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