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On Sunday 25 Dec 2011 19:28:35 CJoeB wrote: |
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> On 12/25/11 14:08, Dan Cowsill wrote: |
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> I can do this, but the computer isn't that old and up until today when I |
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> rebooted the computer by holding the power button, on reboot, the mouse |
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> and the keyboard worked fine. |
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> And although the computer is new, I've screwed the warranty because I |
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> removed Windows and there is only Linux on my computer. |
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It is worth noting for future cases like this that the warranty may not be |
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screwed up at all - unless the small print explicitly says so and even then |
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you may be still able to claim that they fix any hardware fault under the |
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warranty. |
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There was a woman who had removed the MSWindows OS from her new laptop and |
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when the keyboard failed the company that sold it to her refused to deal with |
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it without the original OS installed. |
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Eventually the company reneged and replaced the broken component. |
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http://linux.slashdot.org/story/07/03/27/1753218/hp-dishonors-warranty-if-you- |
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load-linux |
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I believe that there's more than one cases that this has happened, so removing |
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MSWindows may not nullify your legal consumer rights. |
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I do however as a matter of course retain the original installation just-in- |
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case and install Gentoo as a dual boot, if only to save myself the argument |
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with some poor idiot reading from a script on some service department in the |
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future. These days with massive hard drives there's enough space to keep both |
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OS. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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