to expect my brand new laptop to last longer then a fucking WEEK!?

[BlueSuedeWitchesHat]

It died. Just... Died!

I spent so long setting it up and putting all my photos on and stuff. And now it has to go.

I was so excited. It was all white and shiny and I luffed it

bloody hell. That must be some sort of record! I hope the shop is replacing it for you with no fuss.

Silly question alert (based on my friends dopey uncle) - you have recharged the battery I take it?

He bought a second hand laptop. Went ballistic at the seller. Turned out he'd never plugged it in.

What has happened exactly? Chances are it's sortable.

brand new laptops dont just die, where did you buy it? what make is it?

Had the same thing - the day after it was delivered!
Mine was a Dell. Needless to say I got a refund, not a replacement!

No, tis a late laptop. It has ceased to be and shuffled off this mortal coil.

It was showing a black screen with something about rebooting on. I rang PC World and a very nice geek (with a VERY sexy northern accent) took me through potential fixes. Nothing worked. He said it was totally random and he had no idea what was wrong. So I have to take it in to be exchanged, which I'll do tomorrow ad I've been on lates at work.

What a royal pain in the arse!

They exchanged it. Yay! Apparently the problem is that the laptop can't see the hard drive. Which is apparently totally weird and random.

I did lose Microsoft office though. Damn.

One of mine lasted 3 days. 3 days!

Hard drive failed and back to PC world we went....

Little buggers. I shelled out for a Toshiba too as I had a Compaq that died after 2 months.

This time I'm putting nothing on it till I've got an external hard drive.