Lenovo's Warranty guidelines..CPU upgrade?

Hi~

After a few months away from a Lenovo, seems like I'll be going back to one, albeit a new one, and just a quick question--have you guys tried/upgraded your CPU (or other hardware components not really upgradable by the regular end-user)? What does Lenovo think about it in terms of warranty? In Acer laptops, I think they allow these, just not sure with Lenovo laptops, since the farthest I got with my N100 was an HDD upgrade..

Thanks in advance!

 

I think it will void your warranty if you send it in for warranty work and they notice.

 

Yup. Although there's nothing to prevent you from upgrading the CPU (no "Warranty Void" stickers), so you can just pop the original CPU back in if you need to send it in for warranty repair.

 

Not necessarily. They may refuse to warranty the CPU, but in order to refuse warranty on the rest of the laptop they would have to prove that your installation of the CPU upgrade caused problems with other parts of the computer.

You can always just pop the original CPU back in if you send it back for warranty.

 

They could make all sorts of far-fetched arguments and refuse you warranty service and you would be SOL; ie: you damaged part of the motherboard when you installed the CPU, you misassembled a part, etc, etc. I would say it's much safer not to give them any excuses and always send your machine back in its original state.

 

Spend your money on a good SSD. That's a better upgrade anyway.

 

I'm still looking to see if I'd really be changing into a Lenovo.. But Lenovo laptops, particularly the Ideapad Y450 (the one with the GT 130M) don't have warranty stickers anywhere, right?

I remember the N100 having no stickers at all.

 

I don't know about Lenovos, but the CPUs in ThinkPads have bar codes.

 

Would removing the CPU tear the barcodes? That's what they use in inventories when you send the laptop for repair, right?

 

never saw the point in a cpu upgrade
ram, ssd, yes. cpu? 10% for $200? By that calculation, 50% for the money it'll take for a new generation laptop which will likely have a 30% cpu-bus improvement, much more ram, bigger ssd, and the new-cool factor.

 

Well, if you were to take into consideration what I was thinking of upgrading formerly (T5800 to T9600) it would be a big jump--greater than 10% and Virtualization for Windows 7's XP mode. (T5800: 2.0GHz, 2MB L2, 800Mhz FSB; T9600: 2.8GHz, 6MB L2, 1066MHz FSB +Virtualization) so it's a semi-worthwhile upgrade. Now I'm just asking about how Lenovo deals with CPU upgrades, since it looks like I'd have to return my old notebook because they breached the warranty contract..

Nonetheless, thanks for all your sentiments! Greatly appreciate it.

 

I am 100% for discussing things of this sort, for this is how we all get informed, and sometimes wiser. So don't get me wrong.

Virtualization: yes, I have used it for a recent project, updating code I'd written 8 years ago.

otherwise, seriously, why not save up and get a new computer, and then sell the old one? assuming of course, that (since you are spending time on this forum) you're one to know your way around computers and that it would not take you much effort to reconfig a new one

 

A Lenovo 3000 N100 I recently disassembled also had a barcode stripe on the CPU. It didn't break, though, when removing the CPU.