Laptop Broke:

[GirlRacer]

what a sod Lost all me info Im having to use an owld ibm thinkpad, and pentium 0 i think
windows 98 LOL......... cant cope with this. Huge writing, awful screen & graphics (we'll it cabt cope) &Wires for broadband across the room.
So any pm's about my car, i will get to them when i can.

[Chris M]

Same happened to me a while back, computer crashed and i lost loads of info, music, work etc

Good luck with sale of the car

Cheers,
Chris

[GirlRacer]

Few days & hope to have it fixed

Is'nt it not because i leave it switched on all about 16hrs a day????
its a decent one av got, so it should handle it, can see a possible tower comin back
now its done this.

[s2dude]

Few days & hope to have it fixed

Is'nt it not because i leave it switched on all about 16hrs a day????
its a decent one av got, so it should handle it, can see a possible tower comin back
now its done this.

Leaving a laptop switched on 16 hours a day is asking for it Teen.....
They just dont have effecient enough cooling as you will know if you work with one on your lap for a while!!!
Turn it off when your done

[s2dude]

Few days & hope to have it fixed

Is'nt it not because i leave it switched on all about 16hrs a day????
its a decent one av got, so it should handle it, can see a possible tower comin back
now its done this.

Leaving a laptop switched on 16 hours a day is asking for it Teen.....
They just dont have effecient enough cooling as you will know if you work with one on your lap for a while!!! and this knackers the bearings in the hard drive platter usually...
Turn it off when your done

[GirlRacer]

Leaving a laptop switched on 16 hours a day is asking for it Teen.....
They just dont have effecient enough cooling as you will know if you work with one on your lap for a while!!! and this knackers the bearings in the hard drive platter usually...
Turn it off when your done

i dont sit on me *** for 16hrs a day tho LOL, when a potter on & do housework I just leave it on a glass table, a put
litle sticky feet on the bottom for extra.
Gettin it fixed at a local place today £35- 40 for a 30gig drive with windows xp
installed/fitted.
Then its time to look a humongous tower sysyem again, and maybe sell the dell.
Now am going as this thing is making me blind, LOL

[mark_s2]

If it's the drive electronics that have failed then it may be still possible to pull off your data.

Laptop drives get hot and the most common failure mode is the drive electronics - the motors / heqads etc are robust.

Check the make and model number of the drive - this will be on the label fixed to the top. You will then need to get a working drive of exactly the same type e-bay & computer fairs are good sources.

Swap the board on the bottom over. Most are fitted with very small torx fixings.

This will only work if it's the board that has failed. Hvae done it a couple of times myself to help out friends.

Mark

[GirlRacer]

Thanks for advice Mark.
Dont know whats failed on it. He is gonna try & recover the stuff on it.
Just encase its not the drive at fault.
But have decided to have a new 40gig hard drive for it (if other one not broke
will keep it for the next time, LOL.
Im not tech with computers just........ i just seem to brake them

[s2dude]

i dont sit on me *** for 16hrs a day tho LOL, when a potter on & do housework I just leave it on a glass table, a put
litle sticky feet on the bottom for extra.
Gettin it fixed at a local place today £35- 40 for a 30gig drive with windows xp
installed/fitted.
Then its time to look a humongous tower sysyem again, and maybe sell the dell.
Now am going as this thing is making me blind, LOL

£35 - £40 with Xp on it??!!
Mmm...guess thats a pirate copy then
Still bloody cheap though considering they have to install XP on to it

[GirlRacer]

me copies

45 quid for 40gig one with xp. Have all other stuff to install on disc,
and product keys

[AUDI9020V]

always remember tina if ya using it with the power lead remove the battery as they ghot bloody hot,proof is dell they called the baterys back.john

[GirlRacer]

always remember tina if ya using it with the power lead remove the battery as they ghot bloody hot,proof is dell they called the baterys back.john

I got another battery for it not long ago........
remove the power lead i will now, a never thought of that.

Its now fixed, (michael gone to collect it whooo) but hard drive was mashed, so lost everything. So can put this pentium blonk 16bit colour thing away later.

Think im gonna see how much it will sell for & get another tower,
and put it on a trolly with wheels so its mobile, LOL

ps, i thought dell was decent ??

[Ski]

i dunno what i would do if I lost my data. I still got my college assignments on here and pretty much my whole life album!

thats why every 6 months I backup to tape and give it to a family member to hold should my house ever burn down. (in between the months i backup new stuff to dvd).

Only time most people realise what the've lost is once its gone, amazing how many company's out there dont have a backup in place. 1 Hard disk crash and business is bankrupt.

[GirlRacer]

From now on i will copy stuff to disc.

I have also been informed that keeping the battery in all the time
whilst plugged in, was possibly how i've melted network cards as the slot
is next to the battery ???