How can I contact Intel?
No that number is not toll free, sounds like you are calling from a line that does not allow long distance unless you are authorized. That is the number to Intel at least the one I always use. Oh and just a heads up Intel does NOT offer lifetime warranties, its only a 3 year warranty. Well for processors at least, for other components I am not 100% sure, but I do know 3 year warranty on processors. I have filed many warranty claims with them before. They like to make it a pain, they won’t send out a new processor right away, you have to send your dead one back, they test it and once they verify it is in fact dead and not dead because of something you did thats when they send out the new processor. And yes you can contact Intel, I have quite a few times in my line of work, so the claim that you can not call them is ludicrous.