On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Ken Heard <kensli...@teksavvy.com> wrote: > > In May 2008 I purchased new and started using a Lenovo R61 Think Pad. > Originally I installed Lenny on it and subsequently upgraded it to > Squeeze. > > Starting from 2013-01-01 various things started going wrong. For > example I began to get segmentation fault errors for packages that I > had used successfully before that date. Some of other problems where > intermittent sound, and failure to detect the printer, even manually. > > At first I thought these were software faults and sought help from > this list. Finally I decided to spend $100 for diagnostic tests. The > diagnosis was a failed main board, but the hard drive and the memory > modules were okay. The cost of repairs would approximate the cost of > a new laptop. > > Is it normal for any laptop to fail in fewer than five years, or is > such a failure rate unique to Lenovo's laptops?
I've had and I've seen laptops die faster than that... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=SzOD7U0WvBGGZfHH99WRdd25RomcAVc1Z9Jimo=vt2...@mail.gmail.com
