Re: running linux voids warranty?

From: General Schvantzkoph (schvantzkoph_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/04/05 

Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 10:13:20 -0400

On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 00:06:53 -0700, alex goldman wrote:

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> BigJim ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting )
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>> what I do is buy a second hard drive and put whatever I want on it.
>> When warranty comes into play I just put the original drive back in.
>> Dell will not honor the warranty if it does not have the original config
>> on it
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> I've been thinking about that myself. Does anyone know if the same policy
> applies to compaq presarios ? Should I just call them and ask (to have some
> minimum-wage employee in customer service make up an answer on the fly) ?
>
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>> "alex goldman" <hello@spamm.er> wrote in message
>> news:2307718.vl5oECPzmC@yahoo.com...
>>> Are there laptop manufacturers that will refuse warranty repair if they
>>> find
>>> Linux on the hard drive?

HP sells some laptops with Linux, they sell others with FreeDOS which
pretty much assumes that you are going to put Linux on it so I can't
imagine that they will void your warranty if you put Linux on the box. The
problem comes if you remove Windows altogether. The service people are
trained to deal with Windows boxes, they don't know Linux from from french
toast. If you buy a laptop that comes with Windows you would be well
advised to keep a Windows partition on the machine. That way if you have a
problem you can boot into Windows before calling the service line.

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