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elfsWell, frack. There goes another one. The T23 exhibits the same symptoms under Windows as it does under Linux. I put in its old hard drive and tried to run it, and I still get the same intermittent screen failures and other screen artifacts that I was getting under Linux, so it's not the drivers. It died the first time when I first got it, but this is just annoying; it fell out of its warranty a few weeks ago (it was only 90 days). Now what do I do?
It's not like I'm cruel to my laptops. I keep them in a padded sleeve in my briefcase and yeah, I tend to run the software hard, but I'm not like, viciously cruel to them or anything. I don't drop them. This is really making me annoyed.
I've re-initialized the 600e. At least it hasn't failed me, although I have to replace the keyboard soon. The space bar is being held up by a pair of springs I cut out of an old click pen. But it's too slow to play movies or run some of my Japanese translation exercise programs. And it has one-quarter the memory of the T23, meaning I can't run more than one Mozilla product at once: Thunderbird or Firefox or Liferea. I'm getting good at restoring to the T23.
It's not like I'm cruel to my laptops. I keep them in a padded sleeve in my briefcase and yeah, I tend to run the software hard, but I'm not like, viciously cruel to them or anything. I don't drop them. This is really making me annoyed.
I've re-initialized the 600e. At least it hasn't failed me, although I have to replace the keyboard soon. The space bar is being held up by a pair of springs I cut out of an old click pen. But it's too slow to play movies or run some of my Japanese translation exercise programs. And it has one-quarter the memory of the T23, meaning I can't run more than one Mozilla product at once: Thunderbird or Firefox or Liferea. I'm getting good at restoring to the T23.
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Date: 2006-05-04 04:30 pm (UTC)Taking the plastics apart on even TP's always makes my teeth itch, because you're not always sure when it's going to pop apart like it's supposed to, or when you might break the plastics. Try to find a plastic/nylon flathead-like edge to spread the plastic parts, that way you won't mark them up like you will with a metal flathead.
The inverter isn't that hard to replace either, and IBM separated it from the system board because it was more likely to act up than the rest of the system board and it became easier and cheaper to replace.