Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 19:53:22 +0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Replacing 70CT LCD
Hello everyone,
It's around 5months are more since I signed off from the list to try to
spend more time attempting to find myself a real job for a change, and a
place of my own.. Since then my life's been pretty crazy. In mid June
while visiting a friend in the northeastern part of the greater Los Angeles
area, I managed to get hit by a car while I was walking across a road
(albeit in the wrong part of the road) in a pretty hectic part of town.
Anyone who's driven any of the roads in the LA/Orange/San Bernardino area of
S. Cal. knows how crazy drivers out here are generally.
The last thing I remembered, I had stopped in the middle of the street for a
moment to check traffic coming from both the center turn lane and the 2
lanes on the far side of the street. The next instant I was waking up 7
hours in the process of being given a Catscan. A few answered questions on
my part convinced the doctors I wouldn't need neurosurgery. But I had to
have surgery to screw together the femur (on upper right leg) that had
shattered into 5-6 pieces.
I managed to endure 11 days of frigid hospital temperatures getting and
average 1-3 hours of sleep per night and meals of dubious quality. After a
week a friend's place making arrangements, I went to care facility whose
story is an entire novel itself. Anyone who has either spent time in such a
facility, or has visited friends or relatives in such a place, has some idea
of the trials people face in such places. After that I spent a few more
days with my friend before flying here to my brother's place in Tampa
Florida. Thankfully I have family who have given me all kinds of support
and assistance through all of this. My heart goes out to all of the people
I met at that care facility who have no one in the world to give them the
kind of love, compassion and care that I am lucky enough to be able to
enjoy.
Well... this brings me to my latest Libretto problem. Last winter I bought
a CT70 on Ebay to get a bit more power into my MP3s, but found a burned out
pixel in its LCD. Neil was kind enough to send me instructions on how to
take it out, and replace it with the one from the old 50CT. But of course I
procrastinated... and while I was in the care facility, the LCD on the 70CT
blew out. A couple blinks of the screen, and then blackness.
I haven't yet opened the 70CT up yet to see if I can find any modifications
that might have been done to the unit that may have caused the LCD to go
out. That's what I want to ask of you folks on the list. Does anyone know
if there any possibility that there may be a problem with the 70CT that
caused its LCD to go out? Might I be risking the 50CT's LCD being burned
out if I install it and leave the unit to run that way for a number of
months?
Well... guess I'll pull out my screwdriver set and dig in to see what I
might find.
Ciao for now,
Shel... a.k.a. Matt Hanson... heh... long story :-P
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