andy83
June 16th, 2008, 09:42 PM
Hi i've been using ubuntu on my desktop for quite a while now (can't fault it) and have recently bought a laptop a couple of months ago.
It was an Advent 9515 it came pre installed with vista which just became more and more annoying over time. So i tried out the hardy live cd and that worked fine apart from the wireless which could be sorted. I thought rather than do a complete install i'd just do a wubi install so i could play around a bit.
Unforunately after installing and booting up i had a brief glance at the desktop the screen went blank, there was a crackle and a puff of smoke........ And now its dead.
i know there could be any number of reasons but does anybody know of any specific ones software wise.
Also realisticly how do i stand in regards to getting a repair or exchange. I remember some guy not so long back having issues with some dead pixels and the shop doing nothing because he installed sabayon or some other distro.
It was an Advent 9515 it came pre installed with vista which just became more and more annoying over time. So i tried out the hardy live cd and that worked fine apart from the wireless which could be sorted. I thought rather than do a complete install i'd just do a wubi install so i could play around a bit.
Unforunately after installing and booting up i had a brief glance at the desktop the screen went blank, there was a crackle and a puff of smoke........ And now its dead.
i know there could be any number of reasons but does anybody know of any specific ones software wise.
Also realisticly how do i stand in regards to getting a repair or exchange. I remember some guy not so long back having issues with some dead pixels and the shop doing nothing because he installed sabayon or some other distro.