[ltp] Re: did a storm grill my thinkpad ?

[Uwe Bonnes]

Eric Van Buggenhaut <eric@sindominio.net> wrote:
> At night there was a storm here, AC power was interrupted several 
> times and my T42 was connected to AC. I left the laptop on when I went 
> to bed, it was downloading an iso file.

> When I woke up this morning, the screen was frozen, no mouse or 
> keyboard movement. I turned it off then on and the screen is dead 
> blank. The IBM logo doesn't even show up. I quit the CD drive, the 
> extra memory, the hard disk but it didn't help.

> Can it be that my motherboard was burnt by some power overcharge ? 
> Isn't there any fuse to protect the equipment ? I also noticed that 2 
> ports of my ADSL modem stopped working too...

> Is there a way I can buy a cheaper motherboard than those of IBM ?

> -- 
> Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT
> Eric.VanBuggenhaut@AdValvas.be
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