I've been having flicker/short circuit problems with my screen for 8 months. Yesterday I fixed those problems. Instead of paying $150 for a new inverter which is what was suggested despite the problem being with the connection, not the inverter, I more or less fixed it by opening the screen casing with a phillips head and taping the inverter and the wires going to it from the mother board and to the backlight with four small pieces of vinyl electrical tape (I noticed before that it was all held together with scotch tape that lost its sticky instead of being soldered like it was supposed to be).
__________________ Land of the free, home of the brave...
Do you think we will ever be saved?
In this land of dreams find myself sober...
Wonder when will it'll all be over...
Living in a void when the void grows colder...
Wonder when it'll all be over?
Will you be laughing when it's over?
Not in this case since your saving money by buying a piece of shit. As I said in my last post THEY USED SCOTCH TAPE IN PLACE OF SOLDER ON THE WIRES CONNECTING THE INVERTER TO THE BACKLIGHT AND THE MOTHERBOARD. That's like, the most moved/moving part of the whole laptop.
__________________ Land of the free, home of the brave...
Do you think we will ever be saved?
In this land of dreams find myself sober...
Wonder when will it'll all be over...
Living in a void when the void grows colder...
Wonder when it'll all be over?
Will you be laughing when it's over?
Yes, laugh. I'm pretty sure my hard drive is lubricated with a combination of spit and verbal encouragement.
__________________ Land of the free, home of the brave...
Do you think we will ever be saved?
In this land of dreams find myself sober...
Wonder when will it'll all be over...
Living in a void when the void grows colder...
Wonder when it'll all be over?
Will you be laughing when it's over?
I've taken apart and tweaked many a desktop and laptop computer; I've seen what some manufacturers do to save money by taking short-cuts; I've never seen scotch-tape, that is inexcusably sad. Then again, Toshiba isn't a brand I've ever worked with. I'll remember to stay away.
If you need a new HD, don't deal with Toshiba (if you still are), buy your own, it's an easy replacement and should be cheaper. Newegg.com has good deals. Bought a 360gb SATA for my wife's Acer for under $60.00, with shipping.
Again Rob, it's not Toshiba as a whole. It's Toshiba under $1,000 in the US. It's been proven in court over and over again that they knowingly dump defective and poorly built machines as economy models on the US market. Why they would rather lose around $10,000,000,000 in civil and criminal penalties every five years or so rather than just spend a little extra and quality is beyond my understanding. And yes, that's billion.
__________________ Land of the free, home of the brave...
Do you think we will ever be saved?
In this land of dreams find myself sober...
Wonder when will it'll all be over...
Living in a void when the void grows colder...
Wonder when it'll all be over?
Will you be laughing when it's over?
__________________ Land of the free, home of the brave...
Do you think we will ever be saved?
In this land of dreams find myself sober...
Wonder when will it'll all be over...
Living in a void when the void grows colder...
Wonder when it'll all be over?
Will you be laughing when it's over?
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May 28th, 2009 05:20 AM
