[ltp] The dead 600, redux

[Kim Hardy]

Learn your ebay lesson man.

I did the same thing last month ... A 770X that wont take any OS except Debian and has a shockingly yellowed screen. I had to buy 128 mb of ram to replace the dodgey sodim installed. The seller said, 'You broke it, it worked fine when I got it etc etc' f** you in other words ...

I bougtht TP T20 before that which had dead pixels and holes in it.

And you might have got yours cheap .. but in the UK they still go for top whack. $400 USD approx for a 770X (p2 300).

Basically buying laptops off ebay is, in my experience a hiding to nothing. Just don't reccommend anyone do it. Its always worth spending the extra for a new one - with a warranty. Always.

Hope you work things out ...

All the best. 

Kimberly.

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 21:57:54 -0700
Ken Restivo <ken@restivo.org> wrote:

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> Well I ordered that TP600 to replace the TP600E that got doused.
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> It was on ebay, it was cheap, it was easy. I bought it. It arrived. No hard drive, CD-ROM, and only 32MB of RAM, but I had all those from the old/wet 600E anyway.
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> I plug in a CDROM drive. The machine powers up! Yippie!
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> Then I shut it down, take out the CDROM, and plug in a hard drive. BEEP BOOP. Uh oh. No see hard drive. The BIOS is giving me the "feed me" graphic (looks a lot like an old Macintosh, when it does that..). 
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> I shutdown and plug in a different hard drive. BEEP BOOP. I try the F1, Initialize trick. Nope. Dammit! I try upgrading the BIOS to the latest. Upgrade goes well, but still no hard drive. I try both the CDROM *and* a hard drive. Nope. At this point, I'm flailing helplessly, doing superstitious things. I've no idea what's wrong, but I suspect I bought a boat anchor.
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> Well at least now I know why the thing was so cheap. That is, maybe disposably cheap to most folks, but I'm impoverished. I spent my last few dollars on this thing. The CD-ROM seems to work fine, but I can't get any known-working hard drives to be recognised by the BIOS. Very, very upsetting. No machine left, no money left, no nothing. Just a bunch of useless junk.
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> This is a 2645-51U made in 09/98.
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> Any ideas? 
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