Hey everyone, Well, I have some sad news. My R3000z has died, for lack of a better word. I attempted to turn on my laptop one morning to be met with a scrambled screen: http://plasmoidia.homelinux.com/users/jonathan/hp_pictures/display/ I was able to boot up into Linux and then Windows and grab most of the files that I wanted from it. The laptop is now about a month out of warranty, and even if it wasn't, I don't know what would be available given that they do not make this computer anymore. The problem seems to be a hardware problem with the video card, since the scrambling occurs in the BIOS too. Too bad the video is integrated on the motherboard... I took it completely apart in hopes of finding something obviously burned or broken. Pics for the curious: http://plasmoidia.homelinux.com/users/jonathan/hp_pictures/internals/ It's back together now, and I don't think the disassembly did any harm. Though, the laptop will not boot now (it did at least once after "surgery"). It seems to get stuck trying to initialize the video or something (backlight comes on, nothing else), something that I saw sporadically before I took it apart, but is rather persist ant now.
So, I write all that to ask a couple of questions: Anyone have any ideas about what might could be done to resurrect the machine? Anywhere to get an nForce3 150 board like this one? And... Anyone out there that might be interested in buying some parts for his/her R3000z? Jonathan _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
