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DATE: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 20:46:00 From: Michael Halcrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: BYU Unix Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: >On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 07:28:26PM -0600, Evan McNabb wrote: >> > My laptop has decided it doesn't like to boot. I press the power button and >> > the power comes on, but no one's home, not even the bios. The light blinks >> > that it's in suspend mode (what the?). Never gets to the display that says >> > hi, I'm a computer, you have a monitor, what to mess with the bios, okay >> > then here's your hard drive lets rock... never makes it that far... >> > >> > Ideas before I rip it open and salvage my data off the hard drive? >> > >> > Just my luck the warrenty was up two months ago... >> >> Welcome to my world! The exactly thing happened to me about a month ago. >> The mobo just died so I had to end up getting a new laptop. It was a >> Dell Inspiron 5000 who's warranty had just run out the month before; >> Dell wanted $700 for a replacement motherboard. That's the price the >> whole laptop was selling for on e-bay. > Mike Halcrow said: >Yeah, Dell's tend to have those kinds of problems. Personally, I >recommend Thinkpad PC's. Among other things, they are some of the >sturdiest laptop computers on the market, which make them great for >college. > You know what I love about a lot of the UUG replies? "In retrospect, you should have done this or used this or bought this..." Then I think you should end with: HA HA! -Danelle (My opinion does not necessarily coincide with that of my employer, UCI. In fact, they're probably orthogonal and I could make a vector basis out of them that would span the entire two-dimensional space.) P.S. Jake, best of luck to you. That's awful. Try looking for that little reset button that Andrew was talking about! Maybe you'll get lucky. ____________________________________________________________ Enter for a chance to win one year's supply of allergy relief! http://r.hotbot.com/r/lmt_clrtn/http://mocda3.com/1/c/563632/125699/307982/307982 ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
