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- From: kdj@sw.stratus.com (Ken Jordan)
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- Subject: Gateway board replacements and warranties
- Message-ID: <1k6m0eINNpd9@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 18:58:22 GMT
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- I've had 2 IDE cards fail in the past 10 months. Thankfully, it was within
- the 1 year warranty. Regarding service, I've found it extremely difficult
- to reach them but found their service (once you talk to a technician) to be
- okay. They seem to follow a script on trying to determine the cause of the
- problem - which can be pretty slow and doesn't always follow a common sense
- engineering approach to solving the problem. But, it did appear that they
- were interested in getting me back online. Being considerate to the technician
- helps!
-
- At the end of the last diagnosis with them (for my 2nd IDE failure), they
- decided to replace my video card (the RAM was intermittently failing), the IDE
- card (it *was* bad), and the mother board (just to be sure). I'm hoping none
- of the new boards suffer any early deaths as I only have a few months left in
- the 1 year warranty.
-
- Does anyone know if the warranty is extended in anyway for boards that they
- replace because of failure? That is, is there an implicit or explicit
- warranty for the IDE board since it had to be replaced?
-
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- Ken Jordan |Definition: hill-bil-ly (hil-bil-ee)
- kdj@sw.stratus.com |n. 1. someone from a remote rural area in
- Stratus Computer |the US (e.g. Arkansas). 2. Short for
- Marlboro, MA, USA |Hil-lary and Bil-ly Clint-on.
- --------- These are my opinions and not necessarily those of Stratus.------
-