I'm afraid not... *no one* will work on laptops at local shops. And if they say they will, what they mean is they'll send it back to the manufacturer for repair, and slap on an extra fee for you. And if you get the manufacturer to repair it, they'll just be replacing parts.
If you want to keep an old laptop going, the only thing to do is to repair it yourself. I've repaired a laptop display, replaced a laptop touchpad cable, cleaned out a fan, soldered a power connector back to the motherboard, and otherwise voided my warranty repeatedly. But it has kept my 4.5 year old laptop going, at least... Dan On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 13:54 -0500, J. Milgram wrote: > Anyone know a place locally that'll work on a laptop? The display on my > Averatec is getting wanky but it's acting like a loose connection so > there's hope that it'll be easy enough to fix to make it worthwhile. > > thanks... > Judah
