DELL - Out of warranty.. what can I do?

Kashinoda

flashy wrote: »

have you tried the obvious, removing memory and hdd and trying a boot? if youve got a dud memory stick, it may stop it posting?

Yes like I said I've tried everything I can, it's almost 100% the motherboard lol :mad:

gjchester

prowla wrote: »

I think that there was a principle established of a reasonable expectation for the life of a product, and based on that, you would expect a laptop to last for more than 17 months.

There is but it never details what is reasonable. Technology changes fast, 12 months is a long time in the technology, does that count as reasonable length? (Not saying it does just asking the question). Theres also the issue of cost, you can't expect a £100 product to last as well as a £1000 product.

There is an often misquoted bit of legislation that says you have six years warranty on anything, thats not true, it probably related to the statue of limitations that says you have six years to bring a claim, but you have no rights over and above whatever warranty you got with the product.

Kashinoda

gjchester wrote: »

There is but it never details what is reasonable. Technology changes fast, 12 months is a long time in the technology, does that count as reasonable length? (Not saying it does just asking the question). Theres also the issue of cost, you can't expect a £100 product to last as well as a £1000 product.

There is an often misquoted bit of legislation that says you have six years warranty on anything, thats not true, it probably related to the statue of limitations that says you have six years to bring a claim, but you have no rights over and above whatever warranty you got with the product.

I don't think just because Technology changes fast... that that is any right for it to stop working after 17-18 months? Regardless of the progression in technology something I paid £700 for should last longer then this.