Da Rock wrote:
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 13:43 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 13:28 -0700, David L. Gehrt wrote:
The disk drive were pretty good EXCEPT the spindle bearings were made of
some space age material prone to disintegration after a short period of
use. I knew DEC was going to be in trouble when the repair guy stated
that the problem we had with those bearings was because we were running
UNIX not DEC's VMS OS.
I've heard similar bulldust about using Linux being the cause of some
problem that it couldn't possibly be. It makes you wonder whether these
people believe their own rubbish, are incompetent, or think that you're
stupid.
Or just want to get out of warranty... there was an article (Slashdot
IIRC) about HP voiding warranty on laptops converted to Linux, even
though they sell similar models with Linux installed. Never checked it
out, don't care, but I assume it's true.
No, they don't sell them at all with linux- except maybe on their server
line. And yes, they refuse to fix them unless Windows is installed. Got
2 laptops myself and have this problem everytime I ring up- it wont boot
at all- must be the wrong OS installed because POST fails...
I can't believe a company like HP would lay that nonsense down as policy.
Absolutely insane. Funny thing is my current workstation was headed for
the trash heap. Supposedly a hardware problem. It would blue screen
within a twenty minutes of getting to the XP desktop. Reinstalling
windows and updating all the drivers didn't work. Gotta be a hardware
problem but lo and behold I loaded F7 , since upgraded to F8, and she's
purring like a kitten ever since, been runnin for months, gotta be a
year or so by now. I fully expect it will live to upgrade to F9 and
probably 10. There have been a couple of other PC's come across my bench
like that too.
Max
