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Thank You North America

<imagemap> image:P1020317-1.JPG|340px rect 1 1 680 680 Ulaanbaatar desc none </imagemap> The generous G1G1 donors of North America have given of tens of thousands of XO laptops to children in developing countries, including these new XOers in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (Photo by Carla Gomez Monroy, Learning Consultant, OLPC, 17 Jan 2008) 10-0

Getting Started, FAQ, Troubleshooting Resources


Manuals and Guides for the XO

  • For a snappy introduction to the OLD software from 2007/2008, see the volunteer-created Community User Guide.

Things to try with your new XO!

Tech Support & Troubleshooting

  • If your XO laptop is defective—and you received it through the Give1Get1 program—contact Amazon within 30 days.
  • If you're stuck:
    a) and you ordered on Amazon in 2008, see https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/contact-us/general-questions.html. If that does not work, call Amazon at 866-216-1072 or 206-266-2992.
    b) and you ordered in 2007, please email the volunteers at "help AT laptop.org"; make sure to include a detailed description of your problem and your customer number!
  • Want to join us? Contact "holt AT laptop.org" and the Community Support Volunteers, either online or in person in Cambridge, Massachusetts, if you want to help! Just send us a note detailing your talents, motivations and a phone number. Thanks!

Community/Live Support

XO laptop owners are passionate about helping each other, in keeping with OLPC's constructionist learning mission within developing countries. You too can learn about the XO and its activities, collaborating on the issues that matter to you most, by exploring OLPC's many great community forums:

  • NEW: Support Forum - If you can't find your questions on the wiki, ask them on the newly relaunched community forum website.
  • XO Roadshows - See the XO in action
  • Educators and others may get involved at many different levels:

Maintenance/Repair and Community-Building

Each location worldwide is encouraged to establish a tech support center for local hardware repairs and replacement. We encourage the students to be involved in the repair as much as possible. Some ideas on this have been written up in the Laptop Service Program Ideas.

We strongly encourage you to get involved by initiating/joining a local users group, many of which are listed above.

See Disassembly for instructions on taking apart your XO. Do NOT remove the watch battery on the mother board if you disassemble your machine; prior to the Q2D07 version of firmware, this can result in the computer becoming unusable. See also the other pages in Category:Repair

Further documentation underway

  • Please contribute in any way -- as a Tech Writer in a professional capacity -- or as a part-time volunteer. Dive right in, using our Wikipedia-style "edit" or "create account" buttons at the top of every page, or please send your phone number to: holt AT laptop.org (Thanks!)

How do I report a bug?

We are very interested in bug reports. Instructions are available at reporting bugs. Summary: Please report bugs by sending email to "help AT laptop.org". (Developers, please continue to file bugs in our tracking system.)

We are also interested in your suggestions for enhancements to our system.

Community input and collaboration is vital to the success of OLPC. Thank you for your participation.


Older Support Page & Demo Notes

Our Older Tech-Oriented Support Page is increasingly dated, but may offer archival context to the technically savvy.