Hey everyone, My IBM Thinkpad R40, "snoopy" came to an ugly demise last Wednesday. It crashed while suspending (hooray for tpctl 4.15 + Linux 2.6.9!) without me realising it before I packed it back into my bag for nearly an hour. So during that time it was running an infinite loop at full processor power in an enclosed space!
Well after shutting it down in a panic on discovering this, it's been
hard trying to get it running again. I've taken it entirely apart and
noticed a little black mark (perhaps some charring?) on top of the
Mobile Celeron CPU's core and the thermal tape had gone all flakey.
Even after reapply some new thermal paste on top of it doesn't seem to
stop the laptop from locking-up hard accompanied with "funky" graphics
corruption 10-15 minutes (after a cold start). I've had this laptop for
nearly a year and a half and bought a few upgrades along the way, so I'm
not quite willing to depart with it yet.
So my questions are:
1) Does anyone know of any repairers out there who can "affordably"
diagnose whether my CPU, graphics chip or system board has been fried
beyond repair?
2) Where can I still buy a Mobile Pentium 4 or Celeron (not Centrino)
processor and is it worth the gamble?
Yours sincerely,
Andrew "Netsnipe" Lau
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Andrew "Netsnipe" Lau <http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~alau/>
Debian GNU/Linux Maintainer & UNSW Computing Students' Society President
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