WARNING: To anyone who has a HP computer under warrenty
If you upgrade you existing OS to Windows XP, it will void the manufacturers warranty. I found this up today when I called on technical support for the monitor on my new HP(which lasted 3 months). They told me that my computer was no longer warranteed, but because my monitor did not work when I attached it to anoth ...
If you upgrade you existing OS to Windows XP, it will void the manufacturers warranty. I found this up today when I called on technical support for the monitor on my new HP(which lasted 3 months). They told me that my computer was no longer warranteed, but because my monitor did not work when I attached it to another computer that they would honor the warranty this time. This also applies if you upgrade with the HP XP upgrade offer, or so I was told.
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Ah, yes, I've seen this from various manufacturers, including the like of Dell.
Just as a note, if you'd used the recovery CD and put your PC back into it's original state they wouldn't have had any problems!
We have a few Dell servers and when it came to the last upgrades we decided instead of paying Dell for some Seagate SCSI HD's we'd buy them from somewhere else (at around 25% cheaper).
Anyway, server developed problems, they told us we had added parts and server was no longer under warranty.
Once we removed the 3 Seagate drives we had bought elsewhere suddenly the warranty was valid again
It is a shame, a lot of manufacturers frown if you open up the case to do a memory upgrade yourself
Just as a note, if you'd used the recovery CD and put your PC back into it's original state they wouldn't have had any problems!
We have a few Dell servers and when it came to the last upgrades we decided instead of paying Dell for some Seagate SCSI HD's we'd buy them from somewhere else (at around 25% cheaper).
Anyway, server developed problems, they told us we had added parts and server was no longer under warranty.
Once we removed the 3 Seagate drives we had bought elsewhere suddenly the warranty was valid again
It is a shame, a lot of manufacturers frown if you open up the case to do a memory upgrade yourself
