5 Sep 2007 mibus   » (Journeyer)

Laptop Woes, discovered

I think that, despite my thoughts to the contrary, the logic board on this beast isn't yet due to fail.

I have confirmed that tilting the display can affect the screen output - cable being crimped by the case again, no doubt. I've also had good evidence that the hanging issues are actually HDD-related - I managed to catch a DMA timeout error on the console one time.

Of course, there's no way I'm replacing the HDD outright (unless someone has a decent 2.5" HDD for free...).

I've found a PPC LiveCD of Ubuntu 6.10, which I'm now running - less chance of a crash, I figure. My data is still there (and I have an up-to-date backup, wheee!) but it's frustrating to crash every time I move.

Might see if I can replace the HDD with a CF adapter and card - should be a nice fast boot if I do :). Not going to spend any real money fixing it though, replacement has been on the cards for a loong time.

Syndicated 2007-06-22 22:52:00 from Robert Mibus's blog

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