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:*:What's allowed under Dell Warrenty:*:
I'm not sure if this has been brought up before on this forum, and I'm not good at reading warranties themselves because of the terms they use.
So anyways, from your knowledge what is allowed under warranty? What will void your dell warranty?
I know some manufacturers wont allow any upgrade other than memory and some that will allow more than that.
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Right here sums up Dell's Warranty Policy and everything is covered there. :)
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Right here sums up Dell's Warranty Policy and everything is covered there. :)
It has nothing on user upgrades, it only has COMMON things that would void your warranty such as "hammer marks" which are obvisous things not to do. It doesnt mention anything about user upgrading things.
I'm sure thats just an OVERVIEW of the warranty not the whole thing.
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Upgrades are not covered by your warranty but they do not void your warranty. Your warranty also does no cover any damage caused by these parts or damage occured while you had the case open. Upgrades include anything that can be officially purcharsed with your system, so like ram, hdd, video card that is specifically offered for your system, etc. For example, if you upgraded your RAM, your new RAM sticks aren't covered, but the rest of your laptop still is.
Modifications will void your warranty. A good example is upgrading the video card to something that is not offered with your system. With the 9300, the highest end card we can get is the nVidia go 6800, but you could use the ultra 6800 or 7800 if you change a couple of things including the modifying the BIOS. If you do use the ultra 6800 or 7800, this will void your warranty because Dell does not specifically offer these cards for the 9300. Overclocking also fits into this category.
SG
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So it would seem that Dell isnt as Strict as other manufacturers are. I was expecting overclocking and modifcations to be out of it.
thanks
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Yeah, they really aren't that strict. You have the freedom to do upgrades, but it might be a good idea to save the old part in case you have problems later on down the road. Dell might ask you to insert the old part back in to help troubleshoot (but i've never have had this happen yet).
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I am only looking to do Upgrades on Memory and HDD on the B130...possibly Processor too if I can? But that'd be further down the road.
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The processor is probably going to be very difficult, but there is instructions on the web. I'm not really sure if this would void your warranty. Its the one part that i'm not really sure of :(
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Well, I think when I do upgrade my processor it would be when the laptop is out of warranty, I'm not sure if I'll extend the warrenty when the time comes. I would assume that you could upgrade the processor and if any problems arise and determining its not the new processor you could send it in for repair, but you'd have to put the older processor back in.
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Processors have some kinda sticker on it. SO it will most likely void your warranty.