Thank Goodness Computers Are Under Warranty

This why I buy HP products. they gave us Dell laptops at work and we all had so many problems with them I'm surprised they are still in business! Sorry! I've been buying HP for over 12 years and nver had a problem with anything from them! Tdemex

I am glad that it will be paid for. I have been lucky so far. I am glad they are taking care of it for you.

My Warranty on my Laptop has run out now as it is over 1 year old I have not taken a new one as I can not afford the monthly Payments just yet so it will be a while before I can afford that lol I just need to hope that my Laptop stays faithful to me

I always check the warranty with any new product I buy. I only buy reputable brands, because a warranty is useless if the company goes out of business. As far as computers go, I have a great little computer shop that attends to all my computer business. Astrabyte is a local business which only sells and uses top quality products and they have willingly gone the extra mile for me. I check prices at other stores and Astrabyte always gives me a much better price than the lowest available. I am strictly non-techno, so any I ring Astrabyte if I have any problems. If they can't help me over the phone, the technician will come to sort out the problem and once again they are very generous with their charges and have "thrown in" extras at times as well. When the problem has meant I'd be without a computer/modem/screen for a few days, they have given me a loan of one. I would be lost without them.

Hi Tina, I think that it's always important to have a warranty on your system. When the warranty expires you should renew it. I for one love diggin around inside my pc. I tend to do everything myself so I don't have any warranty on my pc, that expired some time ago. If you don't know what you are doing though then I would always advise that a warranty is taken out and extended when it is about to expire, this will save you a lot of cost later on. I also have a Dell computer and I'm very pleased with Dell in terms of support when I used them. Andrew

I know just how you feel because I had a modem to blow out with me twice since I got this computer in February of this year. What happened was, lightning struck my house twice and both times it blew out my modem. Since my computer was under warranty, I had both of the modems replaced free of charge. Everytime we have a storm, I unplug my computer. You would think that after the first time it happened, I would learn my lesson. Because I'm getting olderlol, I forgot again! I try to remember everytime now. Kathy.

I've never had one give me trouble while it was IN warranty. A printer one time, and they gave me an upgrade when they replaced it. But nothing with the computer (knock on wood)...

We warranty our items. We don't want anything to happen to them and not be able to fix them as it seems if they don't have a warranty they break a lot sooner. Then again technological things like computers become obsolete, and then some other new computer comes out like once a year, it seems... Like windows 7 with all the new screens, etc.

Good thing u had the warranty. My son bought a dell a few years back thinking he was buying the best & he had trouble w/it forever. Nothing is made well anymore no matter what u buy or how much u pay for it.

I'm glad that some things come with warrantees but I never buy the extended warrantee anymore. I've never had anything go wrong with anything I've bought until long after the extended warantee has expired. Also, learning that salesmen are encouraged to push those extended warantees and get a bonus every time they sell one with any electronic gadget or appliance, I decided to stop paying that extra money. One thing I'm fearing right now is that my laptop is causing some major problems... financial problems! I'm on my desktop right now. My husband had to completely reinstall everything, including the operating system. I'm so glad he did that because I'd have no computer to use at all right now if he hadn't. I turned on my laptop only to be told, in a pop-up from my anti-virus program, that a worm was trying to send my credit card information somewhere. I turned it off immediately! I did have that service called LifeLock, which secures and insures your personal information up to $1 million, but I had to let it lapse because of lack of funds. (It's only $9.95 per month, but we didn't even have that.) Now, I'm very afraid that our banking information has been breeched! I'll have to wait until he wakes up to tell him what just happened so that he can delete and reinstall everything on my laptop. Geez. We just recently got new cell phones. Mine keeps freezing up like you mentioned about your computer. I have to reboot it at least once a day. I'm thinking about replacing it with another phone while it is still under warrantee. I've found that, if something is going to go wrong, it usually does it in the first year when the normal manufacturer's warrantee is still in effect.

I have a three year warranty with the laptop I bought last year. I paid a little extra for it but I am so glad I did! I bought a great HP laptop which I had to return because it was scratched, got another one and had to return it because the touch controls would not work and the third had to go back because DVDs would not play properly on it. I could not believe it; this was HP which is one of the best computer brands out there! After contacting their head office and demanding a refund I bought myself a Toshiba Satellite and have not looked back; it works just fine and I’ve had it almost a year now. I decided on the extended warranty after all the problems I’ve had; it’s just piece of mind.

Hi KrauseHome well warranty periods are absolutely necessary when it comes to computers, one of the things that could easily malfunction over smallest of mistakes, extended warranty is also advantageous, motherboard flaws are one the worst and they could easily change it without asking for some extra bucks coz the product is in warranty period.

hi i never owned a laptop so have little experience with them . but i have had a pc from 4 yrs and i tell u i felt the same thing what u r feeling right now when i owned this pc. after just a week of buying it my motherboard which is intel original board was found to be faulty . i was so pissed off. my dad baught me a pc even thaugh we couldnt afford it and then it came out to faulty.but thank god it was replaced right away.then i had problem with harddisk replaced it too and the list continues . after replacing so much i became a little hardware engg myself. i didnt need to cal the agent i used to do all the work myself . after that i also started helping my friends out with buying their new pc . well now that i take full care or my pc it hasnt shown any signs of disfunctioing from 2 years!!!!!!!! i guess we get to learn from every bad thing that happens to us.:) good luck with ur new laptop.

I never buy warranties they are usually ripoffs, the only warranty you should have is the one from the store, over the life of the product you will pay almost half of what you paid for the product over the life of it. Also they will keep charging you unless you ask them to stop. Clark Howard who is possibly one of the greatest consumer advocates ever warns highly against buying warranties, all your doing is giving the salesperson a nice commission.

Hi Krause, I think most the products are available on warranty now. Something similar incident happens to us in our office. We bought a new computer and after installing an anti virus packages the computer stopped working and hard disk showed some errors. Luckily it was on warranty and we got a new hard disk instead of the damaged one. So before buying the product we have to make sure that the product is on warranty.

yeah i experienced that before. when i first bought my computer. it seems a lot of things don't work well but after some time it just to act normal again and so i didn't any more bright it back to be repaired and it is such a hassle to bring my cpu since it is quite bulky and i don't like to pay for transportation or taxi just to bring that to the shop . as i don't have car.