On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 07:28:26PM -0600, Evan McNabb wrote: > > My laptop has decided it doesn't like to boot. I press the power button and > > the power comes on, but no one's home, not even the bios. The light blinks > > that it's in suspend mode (what the?). Never gets to the display that says > > hi, I'm a computer, you have a monitor, what to mess with the bios, okay > > then here's your hard drive lets rock... never makes it that far... > > > > Ideas before I rip it open and salvage my data off the hard drive? > > > > Just my luck the warrenty was up two months ago... > > Welcome to my world! The exactly thing happened to me about a month ago. > The mobo just died so I had to end up getting a new laptop. It was a > Dell Inspiron 5000 who's warranty had just run out the month before; > Dell wanted $700 for a replacement motherboard. That's the price the > whole laptop was selling for on e-bay.
Yeah, Dell's tend to have those kinds of problems. Personally, I
recommend Thinkpad PC's. Among other things, they are some of the
sturdiest laptop computers on the market, which make them great for
college.
:-)
Mike
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