Re: [SLUG] Burned smell from Simply MEPIS notebook

From: SOTL (sotl155360@earthlink.net)
Date: Sat Oct 29 2005 - 22:00:51 EDT


On Friday 28 October 2005 12:08 pm, Pete Theisen wrote:
> On Friday 28 October 2005 12:05, Steven Buehler wrote:
> > On 10/28/05, Pete Theisen <petet@acun.com> wrote:
> > > Toshiba satellite A15-S129, Celeron 2.4; 512; 40; Simply MEPIS, XP
> > > Home.
> >
> > Our company had to ship back nearly all of their new Toshibas because
> > they overheated and fried themselves (some had smoke coming out of
> > them). They went back to the IBM ThinkPads for subsequent laptop
> > refreshes. I suspect yours has befallen the same fate, but since you
> > indicate it's "new" it should be under warranty.
>
> Hi Steven!
>
> Alas, not that new. I wonder how much to fix it?

Yes, and if you fix it how long until you are back to connecting by smoke
signals?
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