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I have always defended and wrote good reviews about this laptop when I
got it. It was a real nice machine at the beginning. I was
reccomending it to others. I got it at Fry's in Dallas.
Basically the graphics card goes nuts after a while, dislaying a
grid/mesh or vertical line color pattern. Fujitsu customer service
asks you take it to the local certified repair center. They fixed it,
by replacing the entire motherboard. This happened 4 months into
purchasing it. Then the same thing happened 6 months later.
After reading in several tech newsgroups, and one personal encounter
with another person in the certified repair center the last time I
took it there, all had the same problem with thee graphics going bad.
This is either an endemic problem or an issue with some production
batch, I dont know
Now I have no warranty, and in my mind, the N3010 a ticking device,
waiting to break.
Note to current owners:
- Please contact me if you had this problem
- Extend the warranty of you have this machine before it runs out.
- Dont play CPU hogging 3D graphics intensive games. I strongly
suspect that this kills the ATI Radeon 9000 card. Since my kids have
stopped using it as a game machine (Star Wars Star Fighter and MS
Combat Sim 2, heavy graphics usage), it has lasted more han 6 months
without any issues. (Yesterday I fired up Star Wars and the fan spun
up so loud that I quit the game right away.)
I have always defended and wrote good reviews about this laptop when I
got it. It was a real nice machine at the beginning. I was
reccomending it to others. I got it at Fry's in Dallas.
Basically the graphics card goes nuts after a while, dislaying a
grid/mesh or vertical line color pattern. Fujitsu customer service
asks you take it to the local certified repair center. They fixed it,
by replacing the entire motherboard. This happened 4 months into
purchasing it. Then the same thing happened 6 months later.
After reading in several tech newsgroups, and one personal encounter
with another person in the certified repair center the last time I
took it there, all had the same problem with thee graphics going bad.
This is either an endemic problem or an issue with some production
batch, I dont know
Now I have no warranty, and in my mind, the N3010 a ticking device,
waiting to break.
Note to current owners:
- Please contact me if you had this problem
- Extend the warranty of you have this machine before it runs out.
- Dont play CPU hogging 3D graphics intensive games. I strongly
suspect that this kills the ATI Radeon 9000 card. Since my kids have
stopped using it as a game machine (Star Wars Star Fighter and MS
Combat Sim 2, heavy graphics usage), it has lasted more han 6 months
without any issues. (Yesterday I fired up Star Wars and the fan spun
up so loud that I quit the game right away.)