On Wed, April 4, 2007 12:44 pm, Gus Wirth wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> My laptop hard drive is dying or dead. This has an impact on (1) any >> presentation to the LPSG tomorrow (almost certainly not going to >> happen), >> (2) any testing of connectivity this afternoon (same likelihood), and >> (3) >> later presentations like Kplug the 12th (more likely). >> >> Bear with me -- film at 11. > > I've got a 40GB drive you can borrow until you get a new one. I've also > got connectors and adapters to try and retrieve data if you need. > > Gus >
Really not sure what's up. The laptop repair place on Clairemont Mesa offered to diagnose the HD and put new thermal grease on the CPU for $85 (good toward parts yadda yadda yadda). Well, I've got thermal grease in my kit somewhere, and that's 20% of the cost of a new one, so I came home. The bios says it's running at 68 C, and the laptop place said that's too hot. If it's overheating, that could be leading to flakey HD performance that would clear up with a cooler CPU. Supporting this idea: (1) when warmed up, it won't even boot (2) when cooled off for a while, it boots nicely and then goes south about 15 minutes later. But I still don't have a laptop. Or much $$. Fry's was advertising a Toshiba Satellite like mine new for $500 over the weekend. Taking that as the price to match or beat, what does the list know? Of course, if another $100 gets a *lot* more, I would consider it. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
