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Boo hoo. My vintage '08 laptop died. It was branded eMachines D620,
but its heritage was Gateway acquired by Acer '07, and the name was dc/d about 6 y later. Its hardware was a mobile Athlon 2650e, 2G ram incl the Radeon graphics, 160G hdd, optical and ethernet in add'n to the wifi. Cheap hardware purchased on sale running Vista. It was my first laptop, all previous machines having been desktops, but I wanted something for travel. Over the years it later got an experimental Win7 installed which ran fine, and typically it ran various linux distros from USB as live persistent. I haven't toted it around for years. Nowadays my travel devices are a chromebook, Blu android smartphone (no plan), and a ZTE clamshell feature phone running some linux deriv. It looks like something went south w/ the power; blackscreen, no bios, AC will charge the battery (sometimes) but the power indication comes on very 'erratically' (or not at all) and I don't think the hdd spins up. Of some interest, there's a YouTube vid (I normally HATE vids) which appears to show similar symptoms. The vid tech disassembles the machine, multimeter determines that the power button contacts need resoldering and does, reassembles with successful outcome. I don't think I really want to do all that for this old laptop, but I haven't completely ruled it out. -- Mike Easter x-posted to alt.comp.hardware |
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Mike Easter wrote in news:h7hd5gFs799U1
@mid.individual.net: Boo hoo. My vintage '08 laptop died. It was branded eMachines D620, but its heritage was Gateway acquired by Acer '07, and the name was dc/d So? What's the problem? You are a Linux user so just find another dumpster to dive in and I'm sure you'll find another computer. Linux users love bragging about the **** hardware that they run Linux on so you'll be in good company. You might want to reach out to RonB as he is a prolific dumpster diver. Maybe he can give you some tips and tricks of the trade? Good luck! |
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