Re: [PLUG] need a laptop

2010-01-22 Thread Dale F. Victor
Hello! I have been dealing with Pacific Solutions for years and have never had anything but a positive experience. I highly recommend them. I have to drive from the coast to get there. Dale F. Victor Astoria I used to live in Portland and joined back then. On Friday 22 January 2010 12:39:04

[PLUG] todays supreme court decision.

2010-01-21 Thread Dale F. Victor
Hello! I am wondering if anyone is thinking about the repercussions about the Supreme Court Decision today. I am wondering if it would be a good thing to move all my web content offshore. Sorry if this is off topic, I just thought I would put this out there to see what happens. Dale F

Re: [PLUG] Help Resizing Windows 7 Partition for Debian Install

2009-12-26 Thread Dale F. Victor
to a 64 bit processor and I am to lazy to set up wine on a 64 bit processor to run 32 bit programs. So far there has been no problem. Just a note, Dale F. Victor Astoria, Oregon member of this group for over ten years now. I used to live in Portland. On Tuesday 22 December 2009 06:28:24 pm

[PLUG] motherboard repairs

2009-07-25 Thread Dale F. Victor
Hello! I just looked at Google does anyone have any experience with: http://unitechpdx.yolasite.com/ to repair a laptop? Dale. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] motherboard repairs

2009-07-25 Thread Dale F. Victor
Hello! Not nice to hear others have the same problem. The real problem is that it should work. It tries, but doesn't. I have tried everything mentioned so far. I even put the original disks in hoping they could do something. No luck. Guess it goes back on the shelf for a while. Thank you to all

Re: [PLUG] motherboard repairs

2009-07-24 Thread Dale F. Victor
Hello! Sorry I was not plain, I do get excited. The battery is fine, I know that. The hard drive could be bad. It does not run long enough to get into the bios. I tried. Any thing more, I really want this to work. Thanks, Dale On Friday 24 July 2009 6:34:25 pm Larry W wrote: > Dal

[PLUG] motherboard repairs

2009-07-24 Thread Dale F. Victor
Hello! Today after several days of just having this dead laptop not work at all, I tried to turn it on. The screen activated and the first screen that usually can up when it worked came up. It started to boot and then it all of a sudden went dead. I have a Knoppix disk in the cd drive, but whi

Re: [PLUG] motherboard repairs

2009-07-23 Thread Dale F. Victor
: > Dale F. Victor wrote: > > On Sunday 19 July 2009 12:25:31 am Bill Barry wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Dale F. Victor wrote: > >>> On Friday 17 July 2009 10:25:46 am Bill Barry wrote: > >>>> What is the evidence that it is really the m

Re: [PLUG] motherboard repairs

2009-07-19 Thread Dale F. Victor
On Sunday 19 July 2009 12:25:31 am Bill Barry wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Dale F. Victor wrote: > > On Friday 17 July 2009 10:25:46 am Bill Barry wrote: > >> What is the evidence that it is really the motherboard and not the power > >> supply o

Re: [PLUG] motherboard repairs

2009-07-19 Thread Dale F. Victor
that is > killing it during the boot process. Does it always power off at exactly the > same place in the boot process? Yes, but it may be hard to tell as this is a rather fast computer. > > Bill Thanks, Dale > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Dale F. Victor wrote: > >

[PLUG] motherboard repairs

2009-07-16 Thread Dale F. Victor
Hello! Does any one have experience having a laptop motherboard repaired at the circuit level. I have an Acer  Inspire 1800. I have Ubuntu installed on it and really like the laptop. When it starts to boot it starts to go through the booting cycle and then powers off. Within 10 -15 seconds. I