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    Asus Warranty on `upgraded` products

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by lars77, Sep 2, 2008.

  1. lars77

    lars77 Newbie

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    Hi,

    I have a G1s that needs to go back to repairs and although I still have the supplier's warranty I am very far away from them so I'll try to take the laptop to asus.

    I have upgraded the hdd, ram and also added the intel turbo-cache, so this all should void the original warranty.... are they strict with this?

    all those parts can be changed in less than 2 minutes using the access bays at the bottom... and as far as I can tell it is the motherboard that's broken... but this is after one whole year of flawless operation...

    if I manage to downgrade to the original settings, will they still 'find out'? Since I don't know the original brands that asus uses, it would be hard to get it back to `normal` anyways but I could get the specs right somehow I guess....

    any ideas??
     
    lars77, Sep 2, 2008
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  2. adyingwren

    adyingwren Notebook Evangelist

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    AFAIK, upgrading the hdd and ram don't constitute voiding the warranty. The turbo memory shouldn't either.

    I'm not 100% sure on this though.
     
    adyingwren, Sep 2, 2008
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  3. ClearSkies

    ClearSkies Well no, I'm still here..

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    That is correct.
     
    ClearSkies, Sep 2, 2008
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  4. D3X

    D3X the robo know it all

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    The only thing that does void the warranty is upgrading the CPU, where the yellow Void sticker will have to be removed.
     
    D3X, Sep 2, 2008
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  5. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    One mention that should be made is that if the upgraded components are the cause of the problem, they have a right to refuse repairs.
     
    E.B.E., Sep 2, 2008
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