2 dead quicksilvers in 2 weeks

Doh!
This is a new one for me. I had a G4 Quicksilver choke a couple weeks ago. On startup I would get the spinning progress indicator, but where the normal splash screen should appear came a black square - end of story. It didn't want to play anymore.
So - interim solution was to swap out the machine for another Quicksilver and run net install. Worked fine for 10 days or so, and now the machine, at the same desk, is exhibiting the exact same problem!
This cannot be of coincidence, can it? What could be cooking these machines? Has anyway else encountered the black box of doom?
Any ideas would be most welcome!

Hello! Please provide more detailed info about the machine model and OS you are using. It's highly unlikely that two machines would fail unless there's too high a voltage coming in and it's frying the power supplies. The network OS could also be corrupt. Tom

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Hem(personal info removed)
hi, my name is hem(personal info removed) from ahmedabad.
i m feeling like a fool after buying a blackberry curve 9220 white handheld from snapdeal. i received the phone in the last week of april'13 and on 31st may'13 my phone got dead. i submitted to the service centre in ahmedabad @ mithakali on 3rd june'13(WORK ORDER NO. - (personal info removed)223). i have been told that it needs to be sent to bangalore and will be back in aroung 15-20 days. still i have not received my phone. no one from blackberry is responding to me. from service centre ms. shweta told me that it will take one week - the same reply since last two weeks. mr. chintan has cooperated well on the no.((prsonal info removed)70). mr. chintan said that this service centre does not belongs to him so he has given me one more contact no. of mr. pravin - (personal info removed).
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Hi and Welcome to the Community!
As a user-to-user community, no one here can answer your question with any level of authority whatsoever. BlackBerry provides zero front line support to end users, including warranty...all support starts with the carriers, authorized resellers, and authorized service centers, all who can escalate cases into BlackBerry at no charge to the end user.
So, your escalation path is not here, in these forums. Rather, it is through your service center and/or place of purchase...even if they may have so far been unhelpful. You have no free path by which to bypass them, and should be escalating to their management levels.
There is something called incident support, but it costs to just ask the initial question, since you are bypassing the contract you signed upon purchase. If you wish to investigate that, you can review it here:
http://us.blackberry.com/support/programs/technical/incident.html
There also might be some good reading here:
http://us.blackberry.com/legal/handheld-limited-warranty.html
Good luck!
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