[ltp] The dead 600, redux

[j_f_clark]

I have picked up 2 TP600's off of ebay and been relatively happy with 
both.  I am not sure what "cheap" means in your case or what features were 
advertised.  You have to read the descriptions very carefully.  But you can 
generally get a 30 day to 90 day return guarantee that the product isn't 
DOA and that it lives up to the description.  If the seller doesn't offer 
that kind of guaranteed, you probably can figure you are buying a boat anchor.
Joe Clark

At 03:14 PM 7/18/2003 +0100, you wrote:

>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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > I plug in a CDROM drive. The machine powers up! Yippie!
> >
> > 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..).
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > This is a 2645-51U made in 09/98.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
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