Steve Holdoway wrote:
Overheating's usually the culprit. Check the airways are clear and the fans are
all running. If it starts up now, then maybe the damage isn't permanent.
True. There's three chassis fans, which are a bit grimy. It's always
been too hot and noisy. Are the 'duo core' laptop choices out-performing
the P4s now?
Anyway, the hard disk was full - like changing your car when the ashtrays are
full (:
Yes, 40GB is quite limiting now..
But I'd welcome it against this backup P-166's 100MB I've freed up under
Win98 to get Firefox & Thunderbird semi-crashproof on 48MB RAM. Ah,
these were the days (not!)
Cheers, Rik
P.S. Readers, don't ever believe running GNU/Linux is cost-free - the
more hardware spec you throw at it the better. And then price the
prodigious time demanded of experience..
Buy a new laptop. Twice as good and half the price of the one you had.
Hmm.. 2.66GHz(+) w/512MB(+) - brand recommendations?
