Hoped it would be home by the time I got home but nothing (not even a 'we tried to deliver' note...)
So T-Minus 2 working days till their own set deadline.
Quickly re-read what the online tracker said and it had a UPS tracking reference with a date of 29th October 2012, so boohoo to that (as it would be Monday!)
Imagine my surprise when I get to work today (T-Minus 1 working day) and my colleagues tell me it's arrived... However I didn't get a break till close to 4pm so couldn't do anything till them.
On my break I quickly turned it on, connected to the local wireless network, downloaded/installed VLC Player and then tested numerous large files (ranging from 7GB to 13GB!) and left it running till about 7.30pm. Not a squeak! so woohoo.
Got home around 10pm and up to this point (close to 1AM) of installing updates, restarting a few times, un-installing the crappy McAfee for Comodo Internet Security, emptying about 100GB of data from an external HDD, it's still going fine!
On a side note the number '2' key on the numeric pad (which was broken and NOT sent back) has been kindly fixed/replaced by Toshiba so SUPER KUDOS to them!
So far up time of about 7 hours and not 1 0x116 Graphics card error so WOOHOO *Problem solved!*
At this point in time the Toshiba online tracker has updated to say:
| 26.10.2012 09:04 | Closed Resolved |
One bad thing is that the original packaging I bought the laptop in (and used to return) has been retained and instead I have a SUPERSIZED brown cardboard box. (Following are the pictures of said box)
A quick boot shows the same graphics card model installed so maybe it was swapped?
But a fresh install of Windows 7 (no service packs though!?)
While we're on the topic, WOW so much bloatware pre-installed (see the size of the list!)
Only things I've installed is Comodo Internet Security, VLC Media Player and WinRar
And of course a removal of the crappy whiny McAfee Security package is deserved!
Just see how many updates it needed to install/apply!
116 updates over 42665 operations!
And only after using Internet Explorer a few times and restarting the laptop a couple more does it give you the 'European Court Enforced' Browser Ballet screen!
How many can you recognise?
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F*** did I speak too soon (15 minutes later and there's this screen...)
To be honest though black screen for literally 1 second and it quickly recovered (hardly noticeable!)
Now that I've:
* ALMOST emptied my sister's backup off my Hard Drive,
* Installed my network printer driver
* Set-up the wireless access at the chippy
* Installed a better internet security package
She can have the laptop back (and test it herself) and give my dad his laptop back.
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