I got today a brand new desktop VIT, it has 500 GB of HDD memory, but i need to uninstall linux canaima, before doing that i need to format the whole damn thing since it has 3 partitions one of 245 GB (win7) one of linux canaima (250 GB) and one dubbed recovery (5 GB) what i want to know if it's a valid argument to say oh you formated? sorry gurantee is off, the guarantee is for 2 years and 7 days.
it depends on your country's laws and the exact wording of the guarantee (and what the guarantee is for). The one time I was in a similar situation I successfully argued that changing the operating system did not void the warranty. (The exact situation in my case was the hard disk in my laptop had failed, so I had sent it back to the providing organisation for replacement, they wanted me to send them the recovery discs to reinstall it before returning it, I wanted it returned with a blank hard disk so I could install my own OS. the guy told me doing that would void my warranty, so I told him that since the warranty was for hardware they could not reasonably make the condition that the system be reinstalled by them using the OS it originally came with.)
Eh i once had a similar situation, and one of the VIT guys said reinstalling the OS does voids the guarantee, this was on my laptop a VIT M2400, my win vista got royally damaged and was beyond recover (the install files about 60% of the OS was completley corrupted) and i had to format, i called the guys to tell them of my problem and well they said that, i am looling rigth now to the agreement (thanks heavens i am law student, for once) the only part that touches specifically over the PC is about hardware, however i am called the legal guardian of the machine, that i take full responsability for any changes i make to the machine that are not covered by the warranty in question (yet it fails to determine what are these terms, or rather it leaves them up to interpretation, wich is bad for them) reading futher and to my amusement they only touch upon hardware terms, they do not mention, nor is left to interpretate if the warranty extends to the OS or is that the OS has a separate warranty.
Here's the way I look at it. If you're the kind of person that's prone to breaking shit, then keep everything stock. If not, then do what you want because the guarantee won't matter and it won't break and you won't have a use for the warranty.
My mom keeps pestering me for even suggesting to switch the OS, she raised a hell when i suggested switching videocards (intel for an ATI Radeon) and the VIT company wont answer my calls
i will try tomrrow i got to my house around the 3-4 pm one hour was wasted on the phone company, since tomorrow the workers of my college are going to protest i will be a good chunk of the morning trying to contact them, if they OS is good i will try to use windows any time upgrade to ultimate or at least try to use my win 7 install pack DVD to do an upgrade install of 7. Also the computer has 2 GB i dunno if it will allow me to run PW
The gist of this suggests to me that you do not actually own the machine. This would mean that ANY changes you make could potentially put you on thin ice.
I own it and yet i dont own it, the problem is that i will be paying fo rit ovber the course of 24 months, and that long is how the guarantee is, i want to mod this tower so i can make it a more gaming oriented one (tried assasins creed II with minimal specs and looks both horrible and workse veeeeery slowly) and of course get rid of linux canaima since it's like a bad version of unbuntu that does not works (my only experience with linux has left me dissapointed, it wont store even my admin password, it wont allow me to connect for more than 3 secs to internet crashed often) i guess if my teacher comes this thursday i will ask him more about this, since he dint show up in college today (he is a civil laws/rigths teacher so he knows on depth this kind of thing as he also made use of his title as a civil matters lawyer)
So i would need to wait two years before i can make any changes,since it's a 24 payment quote anyway here is the only section of the contract that speaks of the PC: Spoiler The buyer is forced to take care of and maintain the personal computer in the same state as he got it, using it exclusively for his own use, which must be done accordingly to the rules laid by the maker of the persona computer. It will be on the account of the buyer all expenses any erosion or any damage that is done to the machine by any repairs or any replaces done to the PC that are not covered under the warranty.The buyer is forced to leave free of any burdens of any type, if that were to happen however the buyer must inform CANTV after the fact has taken place.[/size]The buyer will assume all risks of the PC and in consequence it will be to his or her loss any damage or destruction of the PC whatever was the cause of it, although said circumstances will not remove the obligation of paying the debt to CANTV plus any interest if those existed. The buyer is considered the personal guardian of the PC and by so assumes the total responsibility for any damage that anything or any one can cause to it for any kind of use. Also the buyer is expressly forbidden to give to third parties the possession of the PC be it in any of the forms (i actually shortened this line since all it does is list the forms of giving away the possession to a third party be it free or not).
the bold bit pretty much forbids you from doing anything to it. thats a pretty unfair contract to be honest, if the machine proves to be faulty you're expected to pay for repairs and continue to pay them for the privilege of possessing a piece of faulty machinery.
@Loonylion i still lack experience with the contracts (and actually i got a faulty machine, but not this time, my laptop came with a nearly dead-now dead lens so i actually needed to travel between states to leave to be fixed) tomorrow i will be calling the company to ask if it's ok since i dont want to have 2 years of wait with a 250 GB i will never use (god canaima is awfull) also the repairs are expected to be done on their approven repair shops, not anywhere else, as a last note the contract (i only translated the 5th of 8 clauses the contract is 3 pages long and 90% of it is irrelevant to the topic) plus i will try to ask my teacher on thursday, of course if he comes to the class or like it's common one of the political movements wont lit the fuse for the powder keg that every student is sitting upon.
