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Upgrade laptop - lose warranty?

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  • 18-12-2008 5:27pm
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    Dotfuscator
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    i want to upgrade my Dell laptop's ram to 4gb. I can do this myself but i read somewhere that dell requires an authorised dell technician to do this( or something like that). Is this true? If i do upgrade it myself will i lose the warranty?
    Does this include losing the 3 year next business day support that I got when buyin the laptop?


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    Anti
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    Give them a quick ring to be sure. But i cant imagien it voiding your warrenty.


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    AlmightyCushion
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    With my dell laptop I got a guide telling me how to upgrade the hard drive and ram so I can't see how it would void the warranty.


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    Solitaire
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    Stickers covering the screwholes of whatever backpanel on the Dell that needs removal to get access to the RAM is usually a giveaway. If there are none I seriously doubt Dell cares, unless you manage to accidentally impale the laptop's guts on a screwdriver or something equally unlikely ;)


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    Dotfuscator
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    ok thanks for the replies guys, guess i'll just upgrade it so. i'll just hope i'll never have any reason to need the warranty in the first place :)


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    TerrorFirmer
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    It won't invalidate the warranty. Upgrading parts like CPU/GPU/and so on would do so but that's a completely different ball park.


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