A few loose screws
That's all that was wrong with my laptop.. a couple of screws on the back became loose and apparently that caused it to stop delivering current to the power supply.
Good thing there was no surge thanks to this.. discovered it as I was about to take it appart to take a look inside..
"hmm.. why are these loose.. let's tighten them and see.." doh.
Life is looking up :)
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A friend of mine (a true BOFH turned PHB) has a dodgy monitor.
Every so often it goes on the fritz. A quick thump to the casing sorts it out every time.
Maintenance keep offering to repair or replace it but she won't let them.
She insists that she something in her life that she can fix by hitting it...
Posted by: Mike Short | May 8, 2003 03:36 PM
Exact same thing happened to my Vaio. It stopped working while I was working on it! Spent a week trying to get it back on since the extended warranty does not cover anything other than XP installed. One morning I took a screw driver to the back, noticed screws were loose, tighten and machine has been running since.
Posted by: Scott St. John | May 8, 2003 04:23 PM
Interesting story. Also, unix-girl do you have an e-mail address i wanted to ask you some questions about virtual hosts in FreeBSD.
Posted by: unixbaby | May 8, 2003 04:57 PM
Spake unixbaby, "Interesting story. Also, unix-girl do you have an e-mail address i wanted to ask you some questions about virtual hosts in FreeBSD."
If you care to look, it is on her blog page, right side above her pictures. Look for her name and ye shall find.
Posted by: Tzicha | May 9, 2003 08:26 AM
My Compaq Evo has just died the death. I checked the screws... No joy.
And I'm in France so I've been having a bit of a crash course in technical french with an engineer who speaks so quickly, his words are dopplered.
Posted by: Mike Short | May 15, 2003 07:16 AM