Mon, 07 May 2007

RIP T43

So my laptop finally shit the bed. Whenever I move it even a little bit, the display flips out and hardlocks the whole machine. Sometimes during POST it will give me the 'bad memory/mobo' beep code as well. Running memtest86 yielded this disaster.

Has anyone seen anything like this before? I've tried swapping out two different sticks of memory between the two different slots, with no luck -- so I'm thinking that the mobo is toasted.. but then why/how does the physical motion cause it to flip out? Suggestions/donations welcome :) Needless to say, I've been doing most of my hacking recently from my 100mhz Indy that was formerly my living room nethack console.



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Mon, 02 Oct 2006

toast.

So I've been known to steer pretty clear from TigerDirect, due to their blatant sketchyness, but last week I gave in and decided to pick up a 500G Seagate disk and an external USB enclosure. Upon arrival, I had everything setup and running in under 2 minutes, and started rsync'ing my home directory. After a ~20 hour rsync, 3 chips on the board were toasted, and the enclosure was fried.

The amount of dead/dying hardware in my office is depressing :(



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