My netbook's power adapter input has started to act up and I had initially attributed that to a bad adapter (which to be fair, the thing is pretty split up and bent out of shape).
Whenever I charge the thing (which I still can do), I would have to position the plug 'just right' in order for it to maintain the charge... otherwise the battery charge LED doesn't show up and the power light starts to blink blue/orange and becomes purple.
I bought a new one... and lo and behold... I still get the same annoying blinking...
Luckily for me I have an in-store product replacement warranty which I wisely chose to pay for... which is good til May 2012.
The bad thing is now I have to wait until next Friday at the latest for them to diagnose and troubleshoot my netbook, including the hard drive; I had to give the guy my 20 character long password, which caused him to whistle in surprise.
Long story short, they think it's either the motherboard being silly but they need to test everything else as well. *sigh*
If the model I have was still on sale, I'd just rather they do a hard drive swap and give me a new unit... but it's no longer in stock... so... meh.
...at any rate this is still better than most other warranties that some computer manufacturers provide...
When computer technicians ask me for my password, and say that "we need the password so we can test the computer", I hand them a bootable Windows disc and tell them to boot from that because it doesn't need a password. If they keep arguing I take my business somewhere more competent.
