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Old 16-11-2007, 07:27   #19
southwell
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Re: Lockups with a 3 month old laptop - Advice sought!

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Originally Posted by royaltiger View Post
My point about warranty being void, i could not see a company fixing a computer if the software preinstalled has been deleted or changed, as this could be a reason there is a hardware failure, which more likely would be a driver conflict, that does not mean i dont agree the company should fix the problem, i just think you make it harder to get it repaired under a warranty if you are changing operating systems as this was not what was originally bought and sold as a working pc.
Most machines come with either a restore cd or restore partition on the hard disk. If you install XP and it corrupts in some way you either re-install XP or run the system restore cd/partition. If you install XP because you prefere it and it corrupts wouldn't you just re-install XP????
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