what happens in the basement stays in the basementā¦
You could also just take out the hard drive and pop it in a drawer. Should be really easy to do
A couple of weeks ago the little symbol in the corner of my laptop screen where it shows the battery is receiving power from the charger disappeared. There was about 15 minutes worth of power left in the battery and I continued using the laptop, which was otherwise working as normal, until the battery ran out. I presumed it was an issue with the charger and ordered a new one, which did not work.
I then brought the laptop to a shop to be repaired last Friday (8 days ago). The guy said it was a problem with the DC jack and assured me it would be ready by Tuesday evening. It wasnāt ready by then and wasnāt ready by today at 3:00 when I went in to see if it was ready - the guy said his soldering iron had broken so he couldnāt fix it. As I needed it urgently he said heād bring it it somewhere else to fix it and would probably have it by 5:30. It still wasnāt ready by that point and I had to hang around town waiting for a text to inform me it was ready, which I eventually got at 6:40, to say the motherboard was finished.
My question is - seeing as the laptop continued working for at least 15 minutes after it stopped receiving power from the charger, how can the motherboard be fried? Is this possible or has the guy repairing it fucked it up?
Iāll now have to buy a new laptop - Iād only had this one since August 2012.
[QUOTE=āThe Scouse Cafu, post: 962080, member: 2660ā]
My question is - seeing as the laptop continued working for at least 15 minutes after it stopped receiving power from the charger, how can the motherboard be fried? Is this possible or has the guy repairing it fucked it up?
Iāll now have to buy a new laptop - Iād only had this one since August 2012.[/QUOTE]
Sounds plausible, but youāll have to fork out more money to get a second opinion.
A PC repair shop without a working soldering iron. Now thereās one I havenāt heard of before.
My laptop is now completely dead. Ive tried another fully charged battery and other power leads but no signs of life. Could it be DC jack(which moves quite a bit) or could it be something else?
Same thing happened me with my first laptop about 10 years ago. I killed the dc unit and motherboard by putting a cushion on my lap to rest the laptop on. This blocked the vents on the bottom of the laptop from cycling the hot air out. It slowly got worse over a long period of time. @The Scouse Cafu might you have done something similar?
The silver lining is I expect that your hard drive is fine, so your data should be salvageable.
Art itās possible you have the same problem as cafu.
[QUOTE=ācluaindiuic, post: 962674, member: 258ā]Same thing happened me with my first laptop about 10 years ago. I killed the dc unit and motherboard by putting a cushion on my lap to rest the laptop on. This blocked the vents on the bottom of the laptop from cycling the hot air out. It slowly got worse over a long period of time. @The Scouse Cafu might you have done something similar?
The silver lining is I expect that your hard drive is fine, so your data should be salvageable.[/QUOTE]
I tend to use it a bit when lying in bed so itās possible alright and in fact the battery stopped receiving power when I was using it while having a Sunday lie-in.
I had just used a board to rest the laptop on for the last few years.
Recently, I moved house and during the resultant trip to Ikea I picked up one of these lads. Using it right now.
http://www.ikea.com/ie/en/catalog/products/40252939/
Lesson to everyone, remember to let your laptop breathe.
[QUOTE=ācluaindiuic, post: 962730, member: 258ā]I had just used a board to rest the laptop on for the last few years.
Recently, I moved house and during the resultant trip to Ikea I picked up one of these lads. Using it right now.
http://www.ikea.com/ie/en/catalog/products/40252939/
Lesson to everyone, remember to let your laptop breathe.[/QUOTE]
But donāt put it on your lap because the heat will kill your sperm
How vulnerable are we to these chip weaknesses.
Iām only vulnerable to homemade chips. Frozen ones do nothing for me.
We are ok for the moment.
Microsoft will have a patch out for their Operating Systems in the next week or so. The bigger issue is that patch will cause a significant performance hit to machines. It could be in the region of a 30% slowdown on some devices. Thatās major.
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Anyone know what to do with a website that is just displaying the words "This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. "
I get the same message when I try log into the WordPress back end.
I do have access to the Hosting on Helm. I set it up for a relative years ago and we rarely update it.
Exactly a year? Have ye paid yer bills
Years. Post amended .
The domain is active so Iām presuming theyāve been paying it.
They might have paid the domain and not the hosting?
Or an auto-update on wordpress may have broken something.
The wording sounds a bit unusual for a website.
What was sitting on it?
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A basic Wordpress website, only around six pages for a medical clinic.
Iāve never come across that error before. My first call would be with the hosting company, it maybe a service on their platform that has failed.
Sound. Iāve popped a message over to them now. Cheers for that!
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