Re: Scariest weirdest laptop problem.



It's true, unfortunately. I had a scary incident with a Compaq. It just one day (in the middle of my writing my undergraduate thesis) decided to go dark and then never work again. You could hear the computer turn on and booting up and everything, but the screen remained completely dark, and after a few seconds of trying to boot up, would just turn itself off again. It was crazy bizarre. Luckily I had a friend who could help me to get the data off of it, but even he (in his many years of repairing computers) told me that this...

Re: How Many Screens Have You "Accidentally Cracked" ?

This reminds me of the very soul jarring moment I was sitting on my bed doing school work, way back in the day, and got up, leaving my laptop on my bed, but then tripped over the chord. The laptop crashed to the floor and I fell right on it, stepping directly on the screen in the process, shattering the crystals. I cried so much when the dazed and confused moment faded and I realized what a really really crappy thing had happened. Even thinking of it now brings back such painful memories. Had to buy a new screen and...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hello everyone. I'm Michael. Currently in Germany. Don't know anything really about component level repair, but that's one of the reason's I'm here....to learn.

I am more on the web design side of things and less on hardware repair side of things.

Looking forward to some good discussions!