From: Bruce Markowitz (scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: Fri Apr 13 2001 - 23:01:40 EDT
IBM only gives hardware support for the first 90 days, and they will only
support the OS that came on the machine. I suggest you try to reload win95
or 98, and then see if there is any problem
----- Original Message -----
From: "Forrest English" <forrest_at_truffula.net>
To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 10:54 PM
Subject: warrenty questions...
> my thinkpad 600 that i just got is still freaking out when i try and run
> Xfree86 most of the time. it worked fine all of last night. i thought
> it was a font problem. but, today it's totally crapped out on me and i
> can't figure out why so i'm begining to suspect hardware... (another
> reason i suspect hardware is it froze on booting syslog awhile ago, and
> the hard drive is making unhappy noises somtimes...).
>
> so. the only good part to this so far is that i just found out that
> this ebay find of mine... is still under warenty.
>
> http://www.pc.ibm.com/esupservice/eSupportPEW?lang=en_US&page=root&pewsta
> tus=yes&brand=IBM+ThinkPad&doctype=&subtype=Cat&country=892&mtmdl=2645&mo
> del=51U&serial=78-FC504&Continue.x=70&Continue.y=4
>
> so... here is the reason of my mail to the list. i don't have windows
> on this machine. it's running debian gnu/linux. will there be a
> reluctance to belive hardware failure when they could blame it on a "toy
> os" like linux? because there are a large number of people with
> perfectly working thinkpad 600's running in linux, i've even used some of
> their x configuration files to the same results.
>
> what has been anyone's expirence with alternative operating systems and
> asking for repairs from ibm?
>
> --
> Forrest English
> http://truffula.net
>
> "When we have nothing left to give
> There will be no reason for us to live
> But when we have nothing left to lose
> You will have nothing left to use"
> -Fugazi
>
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