On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:33:09AM -0400, Pete Theisen wrote:
> 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?
Dell's got Ubuntu on laptops. My wife has one.
Paul
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