I ordered my 9860 from ********** on 03-17-2005. Specs p4 660, 2gb ram, 2-60gb hard drive raid-0, atix800, dvd-dl. So I receive the laptop yesterday, and I am very impressed by the build quality. The screen is very nice, although after having it on for about 20 minutes a stuck pixel shows up. Now it is only one pixel and at first I was really bothered by it, but I think that I could live with it. Here are the problems though
1. Something is jacked up with the dvd drive. About 20 times now upon inserting a game cd, different game cd's at different times, the machine hard locks up. No ctrl, alt, del, just a hard reset. We are talking about 8 hours worth of use if that. Now maybe it is just a bad drive and I can get a new one. But maybe not.
2. This thing gets smokin hot. I ran mobile meter while running 3dmark 2005 and the temp got to 69c. Thats 156 F. That is frickin hot. The machine didn't lock up but that can't be good for the cpu I don't care what Intel says.
3. In my efforts to figure out what was going on with the dvd drive I ran the intel inf update. Now I think this is were I screwed up. I chose the mobile 915 chipset. Ran the updater. Restarted. Now the machine hangs at battc.sys and will not startup. Safe mode NOPE, last known good config, NOPE. Can you say reformat/start over.
So this is my dilemma. I like the machine but I am afraid I might have a lemon. I don't want to spend the next couple of months RMAing this thing to get it working right. I do have the 3 year warrantee so I know eventually it would get fixed but who wants to wait. I laid out pretty big bucks for this machine ($3582.99) with warrantee and shipping, and I do think that it should be working much better than it is. I don't mind reinstalling windows but I am afraid it may just be an exercise in frustration.
So tell me what you think. RMA or Return it.
1. Something is jacked up with the dvd drive. About 20 times now upon inserting a game cd, different game cd's at different times, the machine hard locks up. No ctrl, alt, del, just a hard reset. We are talking about 8 hours worth of use if that. Now maybe it is just a bad drive and I can get a new one. But maybe not.
2. This thing gets smokin hot. I ran mobile meter while running 3dmark 2005 and the temp got to 69c. Thats 156 F. That is frickin hot. The machine didn't lock up but that can't be good for the cpu I don't care what Intel says.
3. In my efforts to figure out what was going on with the dvd drive I ran the intel inf update. Now I think this is were I screwed up. I chose the mobile 915 chipset. Ran the updater. Restarted. Now the machine hangs at battc.sys and will not startup. Safe mode NOPE, last known good config, NOPE. Can you say reformat/start over.
So this is my dilemma. I like the machine but I am afraid I might have a lemon. I don't want to spend the next couple of months RMAing this thing to get it working right. I do have the 3 year warrantee so I know eventually it would get fixed but who wants to wait. I laid out pretty big bucks for this machine ($3582.99) with warrantee and shipping, and I do think that it should be working much better than it is. I don't mind reinstalling windows but I am afraid it may just be an exercise in frustration.
So tell me what you think. RMA or Return it.
