going to get my Asus A42JV today...

any last advice i need to know about this product?

hi, got my A42Jv last week, and loving every inch of it..... but i hv few questions here.

1) i previously bought MS Office 2007 (original - for my previous laptop) last year and found out that the A42Jv is MS office 2010 (starter)..
do i need to uninstall MS office 2010 b4 installing MS office 2007? or i can just ignore and install MS office 2007 immediately?

2) I read previous posts that A42Jv HDD is a bit unreliable (failing suddenly, sounds coming frm the HDD), is this a minority case or is very common
among A42Jv owners? due to it would b a headache if my HDD failed suddenly and my data all lost

3) what is SMART? and is it built-in for the A42Jv? or i need to install 3rd party software frm the internet?

thank you.

regards
lee28
(happy A42Jv owner)

thanks gogo2,

yes, it is not installed by default. i installed it when i am playing around with the notebook, furthermore wouldn't want to install my license software within the 7 days 1 to 1 exchange period

still using my old notebook for work related stuff until i am certain my A42Jv is defect free at least within the exchange period.

and up until now, i am very satisfied with A42Jv, and don have much to complain... but will still keep a close watch on this forum just in case something major comes up..

3) downloaded CrystalDiskInfo for the SMART stuff, is that sw reliable?? (thanks to astria for the wikipedia link)

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happen to me yesterday and also today, but the diff is i need to take out my battery in order for the laptop to on. cos i always unplug my adapter after finish using it. and i just got my laptop last month. any idea why is it happening?