Testing it thoroughly might be a little tricky (they'd > have to throw in another hard drive temporarily, drop windows on it, > test the widget, and then swap the drives back), but they should be able > to do that for most hardware. I could believe that they might not go to > that trouble when first installing new hardware into your machine that > has been otherwise working, unless you brought the hardware back saying > that it particularly had a problem. But at that point they should > certainly be able to verify that the hardware is working properly and > narrow it down to the fact that you have a problem with your Linux setup. > > Have you had experience that would suggest otherwise? >
Aaron, have you guys tried building a test CD with Bart's Boot CD? Windows based, not linux based. We use it to create network boot CD's for example. http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
