Posts by chipz

OMFG SHE IS ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!! After a few suggestions from Sager tech support David Liu (nice guy), a CMOS reset ended up fixin' her! Prior to that, I had...

ramazz: very unfortunately, the extended warranty was not offered to me as an option because I live in Canada. I would have purchased it without thinking twice.

Map2nap: Good to know I'm not alone in this unfortunate saga. My 4780 is likely from the same batch as yours, I preordered it, and got one from the first ever batch they shipped....the first revision of motherboards definately had some...

Thanx Marco...I certainly do intend to write several angry emails, however I also expect to have to pay for the repair in full nonetheless. The company will do their best to hold to their written policies, regardless of the fact that...

Well well I hate to be having to post in here again (nothing personal), but i am the bearer of bad news once again. My 4780 has DIED for the SECOND TIME in 13 months. First death was a fried motherboard only 40 days after purchasing it....

Hmm interestingly enough...The loudest, or at least, most annoying sounding fan is not in my laptop, it's in the power supply. It has a teeny fax that will come on and off and make the most obnoxious noise. I can tell it's not faulty,...

Yeh I've definately noticed the bend above the PCMCIA slot. makes a little 'errr-eee' noise if u bounce on it, lol. i only noticed it after about a month on mine, hope it wasnt a resulting of heat warping it.

Quote: Originally Posted by entendu Hey, what kind of battery life are you getting out of your 4780s when running minimal applications - word processing or programming, whatever i might have to do during classes in...

xtreme, This very well may be a defective motherboard issue. I had the same problem before my RMA (separate from the machine dying)....but ONLY when running on battery power. If it was plugged in, it would always boot up fine...if I...

I hate to freak you out, but these sound like the symptoms my 4780 was displaying before it more or less died (motherboard issue). Read my thread: http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=12733 Hopefully it was only hot because it...