OT: Laptop screen died

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Sun Jan 15 20:44:16 UTC 2006


Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:

>On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 09:49 -0800, Don Russell wrote:
>  
>
>>This machine may be on its last legs... some keycaps tend to pop off if 
>>you don't press the center of the key... it's relatively old... a few 
>>months ago I put in a bigger hard disk... :-( so, it may be time to cut 
>>my losses..."pull the plug" and let it go.  RIP.
>>    
>>
>
>Don,
>
>I faced the same situation with my ThinkPad a few months ago. I decided
>that since IBM/Lenovo doesn't [yet] offer an Athlon64/M ThinkPad, I had
>the backlight repaired and the keyboard replaced. Unless there's a new
>toy you REALLY lust after, I'd recommend fixing what you have.
>  
>
Check it out on the internet -- there's a good chance you will find 
something about was part(s) might need to be replaced, and how to DIY.
I had a Gateway laptop whose screen died a traumatic death (my daughter 
dropped it), and I was able to exchange the top with a similar laptop 
that wouldn't boot at all anymore, based on information I could get by 
googling. Cost: $0. There was no way I would pay for the repairs on a 
laptop with a 333MHz PIII processor.

Greg




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