JT Moree wrote: > My R3120US is flaking out. I guess it's about time. These things don't > seem to last very long. I think it was overheating because the heatsink > was full of dust. I cleaned it out but the 512M stick of RAM is giving > memory errors on memtest. I'm left with only 256. > > For the last week--even before the overheating--the power suddenly drops > and I'm on battery. I have to pull the plug and put it back to get it > to go back on power. I suspect the internal connector is breaking. > Some of you have had this problem right? > > -- > JT Morée > PC Xperience, Inc. > _______________________________________________ > LinuxR3000 mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 > Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/ --Oh, yes. I have experienced all of the above in the first R3xxx I bought in October 2004. First it was overheating (unfortunately, I did not catch the problem in time, so the no-questions-asked return period expired and I got stuck with it). The firs two time HP failed to fix it; the second time they replaced the "system board" and I had the problem with the DC plugin... So, back to HP for further repairs. The third time they replaced the "system board" (second time, so now I was in the third "system board") but now if I turned it off, it would not turn on unless I let it sit for many hours and/or totally removed the battery and AC adapter. So, eventually they gave me a refurbished one. I wish there were lemon laws for computers! (Yes, their customer service was very helpful and one of their managers extended my interest-free credit period by several months --the equivalent of the period I could not have use of the laptop-- but still, a very nice customer service dept. does not make up for a product that obviously had design flaws.)
I remember somebody posted here a couple of years ago about how to feed DC power through a connector on the right, so you can bypass the failure prone DC connector on the back. CF > > -- > Running 64-bit Linux on AMD64 > _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
