Hi Everybody,
I guess it is time for me to get a new notebook, or perhaps a nice cheap
refurb to replace the Gateway some of you have seen me with. I looked up
the instructions, took it apart, put it back together, suffering
mightily, I might add - too old to even see parts that small! After all
that it was worse than when I started.
Then it dawned on me that the ribbon cable has two ends. So I did it all
over again. As I was putting it back together the second time I dropped
the tiniest little screw into the case. While I was trying to get the
screw out I lost my grip on the thing and while catching it tore the
ribbon cable right in half.
I guess those things get fried pretty good over 12 years. I don't think
a new ribbon cable would tear like that - but one that has been heated
and cooled for such a long time, perhaps.
It now has a new home in the dumpster, respectfully wrapped in a grocery
bag. I salvaged the hard drive, carry case, network card, mouse and
power supply. It was a Pentium 2 400 with 384meg of ram, and it had been
good to me. Gateway would have fixed it for $168 but it is too old, not
worth that.
Looking at Dell's refurb site. Any advice or tips?
-- Regards,Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ http://elect-pete-theisen.com/
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