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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