I patiently waited for discountlaptops.com to send me my order of sager 4381. Finally got it and man am I pissed.
First of all it starts up just fine and I install windows xp pro. During windows installation everything is perfectly fine. I start windows for the first time; alas the thing just shuts off and restarts. I ignored this and just restarted and windows booted fine. I began installing drivers. Then heartbreak, the built in wifi for which I paid an extra $65 was not included. Okay, so I will just email discountlaptops.com, no big deal. Then I noticed three dead pixels at the left side of screen, this was not a huge issue just slightly annoying, and okay to live with.
Well I get all drivers installed and decide to mess with the built in camera. Wham! Again another faulty part, the camera does not work. So far, wifi, camera, and bad pixels are my problems. Then suddenly the computer freezes as I attempt to email discountlaptops.com-then I was really mad. I boot up again but this time it freezes even sooner. The third, fourth, etc… to now it freeze at the bios. I have not been able to boot windows ever since, even the post boot. I don't even see the post boot screen now.
It seems I just got an all around rip-off piece of junk, a $1500 paperweight.
I noticed this notebook got extremely hot. I wonder if heat is the cause of my problems. Could such heat render a notebook unstable and, eventually unbootable? Mind you this all happen in about two hours upon receipt of the notebook and most of that time was spent installing XP and drivers. I should also point out the notebook was in a cool flat surface the entire time and running from AC power.
First of all it starts up just fine and I install windows xp pro. During windows installation everything is perfectly fine. I start windows for the first time; alas the thing just shuts off and restarts. I ignored this and just restarted and windows booted fine. I began installing drivers. Then heartbreak, the built in wifi for which I paid an extra $65 was not included. Okay, so I will just email discountlaptops.com, no big deal. Then I noticed three dead pixels at the left side of screen, this was not a huge issue just slightly annoying, and okay to live with.
Well I get all drivers installed and decide to mess with the built in camera. Wham! Again another faulty part, the camera does not work. So far, wifi, camera, and bad pixels are my problems. Then suddenly the computer freezes as I attempt to email discountlaptops.com-then I was really mad. I boot up again but this time it freezes even sooner. The third, fourth, etc… to now it freeze at the bios. I have not been able to boot windows ever since, even the post boot. I don't even see the post boot screen now.
It seems I just got an all around rip-off piece of junk, a $1500 paperweight.
I noticed this notebook got extremely hot. I wonder if heat is the cause of my problems. Could such heat render a notebook unstable and, eventually unbootable? Mind you this all happen in about two hours upon receipt of the notebook and most of that time was spent installing XP and drivers. I should also point out the notebook was in a cool flat surface the entire time and running from AC power.
