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Thu, Jan 15th 9:39am 2009: Tech Toys
Amelia got a new laptop only a couple of months ago, and she was nice enough to let me take it over until after LCA. Popped the drive out of my HP 2133, put it in her laptop, booted, "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg", and we're back in business. Relief!
No wireless, but that can be solved with a USB dongle.
It seems I'm not the only person to have had an HP 2133 fry itself. Looks like it isn't the charging circuit after all, it's probably something more fundamental on the motherboard. The symptom is that after flicking the power toggle the power LED comes on and stays on, but the unit remains otherwise dark: no LCD, no drive spin-up, and the wireless indicator LED stays off. It seems to be heat-related failure from what I've read.
Time for a warranty claim. Major bleh.
Amelia got a new laptop only a couple of months ago, and she was nice enough to let me take it over until after LCA. Popped the drive out of my HP 2133, put it in her laptop, booted, "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg", and we're back in business. Relief!
No wireless, but that can be solved with a USB dongle.
It seems I'm not the only person to have had an HP 2133 fry itself. Looks like it isn't the charging circuit after all, it's probably something more fundamental on the motherboard. The symptom is that after flicking the power toggle the power LED comes on and stays on, but the unit remains otherwise dark: no LCD, no drive spin-up, and the wireless indicator LED stays off. It seems to be heat-related failure from what I've read.
Time for a warranty claim. Major bleh.
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