Picked up my new laptop today. It is busted. The most obvious symptom is that the touchpad doesn’t work, and it reboots at odd moments, too.
I suspect a memory problem, but I’m not going to put too much effort into tracking it down, because H-P have committed to replacing the entire machine. The dealer kindly loaned me a USB mouse until the new machine comes, which works around the touchpad problem.
The upside of all this is that I now have a machine that I can freely trash over the course of the next week. I intend to do this by trying any and every software package I can lay my greedy little hands on.
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HP? Not an iMac? How last-century!
;-)
I was quite impressed with the memory tester that shipped with the Gentoo boot disk.
Not sure what kind of environment or warrenty you do have, but I got much more than my money back (and a few grumbles, too.) with the Dell "CompleteCare" --everything but hammers and batteries--warranty.
Surprisingly, my HP laptop won't run the version of memtest on the Gentoo boot disk. It gets lets than a second into displaying the main memtest screen and then reboots.
Gentoo itself loads, but with plenty of suspicious errors. I've heard that it goes plays nicer with a 2.6 kernel.