On the base models last year, the basic warranty was 90 days. If you opted for a 1 year, or bought a higher-line model, it may still be under warranty.
support.dell.com, enter service tag - you can look up the warranty status there.
It's not a good thing to leave it in storage without checking it out for manufacturing defects. Normally faulty parts will fail in the first 6 months. Don't wait until the last minutes of your warranty to put it through its paces or recheck it for problems. Make sure you got an operating system cd with your package. If you didn't contact Dell now and get one. You'll need your paperwork for your system tag.
Your warranty expires 10/26/06. Your covered if it is for defective parts. Apparantly you do not have Complete Care coverage, so I hope you did not drop it or spill anything into it,etc.
I didn't do anything nasty, like dropping it, or spilling my beer into it:smileyhappy: It just stopped running at 1.6Ghz and would only run at 600Mhz no matter what I did.
Then whilst checking all this, I discovered my fan wasn't working either.
(Mary,
The box it came in along with manuals, warranty card, backup disks etc are all in storage. I have the laptop with me. I might have to raid my storage and retrieve this stuff.
Dell have arranged for a tech to come out so I hope it can get fixed ASAP.
ejn63
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support.dell.com, enter service tag - you can look up the warranty status there.
Paul Thurston
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July 11th, 2006 10:00
G'day ejn63,
I looked up my Warranty status and it reports the following;
NBD:(Next Business Day on-site) DELL 10/26/2005 10/26/2006 107 Days left
PLUS TECHNICAL PHONE SUPPORT DELL 10/26/2005 10/26/2006 107 Days left
POW(Parts only Warranty) DELL 10/26/2005 10/26/2006 107 Days Left
Is that all good?
Cheers,
Paul.
Mary G
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Paul Thurston
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July 12th, 2006 00:00
Hi all,
Thanks for all the feedback.
I didn't do anything nasty, like dropping it, or spilling my beer into it:smileyhappy: It just stopped running at 1.6Ghz and would only run at 600Mhz no matter what I did.
Then whilst checking all this, I discovered my fan wasn't working either.
(Mary,
The box it came in along with manuals, warranty card, backup disks etc are all in storage. I have the laptop with me. I might have to raid my storage and retrieve this stuff.
Dell have arranged for a tech to come out so I hope it can get fixed ASAP.
Thanks again for all the advice.
Cheers,
Paul.:smileytongue: