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Taking advantage of that expensive warranty

April 10th, 2009

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***Just note that this only applies to users who purchased their computer and warranty directly from Dell. If you bought it from BestBuy or some other store, stay away because their policies may be different. It also helps if your warranty includes in-home service so that you can be up and running again in 30 […]

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The Hack Is Back!

February 11th, 2009

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The tie-wearing idiots over at Best Buy’s Geek Squad finally received my Dell Inspiron 1525 back from warranty. The guy who examined it after it arrived was very surprised that they replaced the whole LCD screen. He opened it up as he was explaining how rare it was for them to replace the whole thing. […]

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Inspiron LCD Gone Bad

January 27th, 2009

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Why did it have to happen to me? An issue I can’t resolve — broken hardware. I woke up this morning, opened my laptop and bam… heard a strange sizzling noise for about 2 seconds, then my screen went blank. “Strange,” I thought. I figured it had something to do with rouge permissions or Power […]

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