W3j and HDD...a question.

just want your opinion...
see, i currently have a laptop...an ancient dell 9100. w/in this dinosaur lies a [refurbished] 7200rpm hitachi travelstar.
would it be advisable to escavate this treasure and replace my w3's 5400?
just want to know if it would be energy i need not exert...
got 2 gigs of 667 waiting, i want to smoke every w3j out there...
including yours, mastha.
.cosmo

 

You wish

 

Whether a 7,200 RPM hard drive would help depends on what applications you are doing. However if your desire is to smoke every other W3J, then of course the 7,200 RPM drive will help, and it is easy enough to swap hard drives.

Keep in mind however that doing any modification to your ASUS Ensemble laptop will void its warranty.

 

its note truly my desire to smoke every other machine, though my unconscious probably says different...
but really, im just doing a lot of gaming on this machine, and occasional graduate school work...heh...
and also, i dont believe it would void my warranty...my 5400 drive will still be around, in my old laptop, and should anything go wrong i could simply pop it back in. dont believe removing the HDD breaks any seals, or so i've been lead to believe...

 

I don't mean to argue the point, but modifying it will void your warranty. If you can replace your 5,400 RPM drive without leaving any evidence behind, you can possibly get away with it, but by waiting until your warranty is over you don't take that chance.

It seems a bit foolish to risk not being able to get a failed motherboard replaced simply for the marginal improvment that a 7,200 RPM hard drive would give you. Prudence dictates postponing your need for speed until the warranty is over.

 

This issue of replacing the HDD and RAM voiding your warranty has come up many many times in these forums. The consensus seems to be that if there is a problem with your PC requiring service (and the new HDD or RAM is not the cause of the problem), then returning your PC to it's original configuration then having it's service will not void the warranty. To date there have not been any seals/stickers on the RAM or HDD.

 

There is no protective warranty stickers on your Hd or Ram. When you send it in for service all you need to do is swap them back and there is no possible way for them to know. Its been discussed in length quite a few times.

 

So what you are proposing is cheating is that it? Doing something that "...there is no possible way for them to know.", but if they did know they would rightfully refuse to do any repairs under the warranty.

The problem with publishing this kind of encouragement to try to cheat the warranty is that it is not only wrong morally, but it could get people into a situation that is very costly to them.

The technicians at ASUS can see if a screw is scuffed, or there are any scratches where they don't belong, or other evidence of the laptop being opened.

As I said in my earlier post. If you can do modifications without leaving any evidence behind (which is a big if for some people...) you can possibly "get away with it", but has that what our society has come to?

So, it's ok to break the rules as long as you don't get caught? It's ok to break the rules if some business person says go ahead, just don't get caught?

I stand by my advice. "Prudence dictates postponing your need for speed until the warranty is over."

 

^ Rules are generally made to be broken - they're made by suits (figuratively and literally), in board rooms, in their own best interest.

The utilitarian approach would be to say that it can be modified as long as said modification did not lead to the issue at hand.

But I digress - that's the deal when you get an Ensemble. You're stuck with what Asus says you want.

Praps I should drink another?

 

Because there is scratches or scuffs on your laptop means absolutely nothing. You have the right to open it up. Opening your laptop in no way can void your warranty. They put stickers on the stuff they absolutely don't want you to change and if they didn't want you to change the memory or hard drive they would put safety warranty stickers on those to. When you send it in for warranty they ask that it has the factory shipped specs on it and that's it. If you change your factory specifications on the Hd and Ram you do run the risk of voiding your warranty but that's if you send it into service without changing them back. That's a very small risk some people are willing to take to get a little more performance. If you want to take it go ahead the risk is very slight if you don't well then don't.

 

I agree with Johnny, In my own experience with these machines, cautious exploration is the only way folks learn how to help themselves (that and reading forums!). I can honestly say that I can fix most parts on a notebook because I have had to. Swapping a hard drive particularly in these machines is no more difficult than pluggin in a standard drive, just thinner ribbons. Move slowly buy a few precision screwdrivers, maybe even a torx set and have at it. Being self sufficient if the proper high road here.

Scott

 

Come on, morally wrong? If you buy a laptop from ASUS and it develops a screen defect (red ghosting for example) that is completely unrelated to you puting in a new hard drive, is ASUS morally right to deny you service, because you "modified" your pc? What we are discussing in this thread is not a "how to scam ASUS" or some sort of ethical dilemma.
Perhaps we on the forum saying it's ok for people to change RAM or HDD's, should preface our posts by saying "Don't do it unless you know what you are doing - if your PC becomes damaged as a result of your actions, then it's no warranty for you."

 

I love modification, without 4 years of mods my car would be ...... well ......normal, and normal is kinda boring...