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    Will this void my HP warranty??

    Discussion in 'HP' started by bcsman, Jan 2, 2010.

  1. bcsman

    bcsman Notebook Enthusiast

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    Bought an HP Pavilion DV7-2170US a few weeks ago. I plan on doing a couple things to it and am wondering how this would affect the HP warranty:

    1) Leaving Vista SP1 on it's own partition and installing the HP Windows 7 upgrade on it's own partition to see which I like better??
    2) Going to rid the computer of the needless HP and others bloatware, but have read back and forth whether this will nullify the warranty if I have to send it back to HP??

    Thanks!!
     
    bcsman, Jan 2, 2010
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  2. timtravel42

    timtravel42 Notebook Virtuoso

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    neither of those technically void your warranty, but if you ever need to send it in for warranty service, either reinstall the original vista from the recovery discs (after backing up your data), or ask to keep your hard drive(s) when you send it in (they will usually erase everything otherwise)
     
    timtravel42, Jan 2, 2010
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  3. Pranalien

    Pranalien Notebook Veteran

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    Changing OSes or even user upgradeable components like hard disks and RAM don't void your HP warranty.
     
    Pranalien, Jan 2, 2010
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    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    Warranty only covers hardware so dont worry.

    Your free to make any software changes, just keep in mind that HP might NOT support you if you have software issues with a different OS.

    They will instead ask you to do a factory/recovery install before they can support you or before you can send it in for repairs.
     
    flipfire, Jan 2, 2010
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    sean473 Notebook Prophet

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    no it won't... only upgrading hardware might but ppl have uprgaded hard disks and had no problems... just make sure u take pictures when u uprgade...
     
    sean473, Jan 2, 2010
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  6. bcsman

    bcsman Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for the info, guess it looks like I'm safe to dump some bloatware and try Windows 7 when I get the upgrade disk from HP...
     
    bcsman, Jan 3, 2010
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    randallrivy11 Notebook Consultant

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    if hp is sending you the upgrade disks they should support the new os but i am not totally sure on that u might wanna ask them will they still support the new o/s
     
    randallrivy11, Jan 7, 2010
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