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The-Travellers-Tale — Must be user error part1
Published: 2009-10-30 08:06:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 1335; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 64
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Any one seen office space? The scene with the printer? Thats what inspired these shots, we had a totally dead laptop, and an old mic stand that had a massive weight on the bottom, so it kinda made sense, and yeah it usually is user error! This was one yough laptop! This is what we get up to in schools while your all on holiday
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haha, I would imagine so
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Why did you have to trash the laptop with a gun and do you remember what were the hardware specifications for it?
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It was totally dead, I wouldnt have done it to a working laptop, and all useable parts were removed first, and it was a metal bar not a gun
1.6 ghz intel celeron - 10gb HDD - 128 mb ram low spec
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Yikes! That's no good.
Did you know how did the laptop die like this and were there any replacement parts for that laptop available?
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Motherboard blew, literaly, burnt a hole in it. we took all the components out for spares, we have a few of these laptops but not many there all dying fast
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Yikes! The motherboard blew out? I suspect that the motherboard got too old didn't it? If so, that was awful.
And since there were no replacement parts for the motherboard available, the laptop had to be destroyed as a last resort, didn't it?
I suspect that newer laptops weren't built to last more than several years.
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Yeah there quite a few years old now, and laptops get abused in schools 
I decided to destroy it not to smash it, but to take pictures, it had to suffer for my art
Have you seen what happened next? [link]
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Another reason why you may have destroyed the laptop is that you might not have the money to get the motherboard replaced.
If there are no replacement parts for the motherboard, the laptop is no good.
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you cant buy the motherboards anymore and its all no good
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I knew it. There are no replacement motherboards available.
If the motherboard on either this PC or the GRiD Convertible 486 blows out, I'm toast.
Have a look at this video of daanberg taking apart a 11-year old laptop that could not be repaired: [link]
Compaq was acquired by HP in around 2001-2002 and HP has policies to cease support and production for laptops that are between 1 to 4 years old.
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Shame....
Wow 486! thats an old machine supprised it runs DA ok.
That vid was cool, I thought modern laptops had a lot of screws, and how thick was it
Shanme there cutting support, people need to use computers longer and not throw them away as often
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386, 486 and even early Pentium-based PCs cannot use the internet at all, because of lack of memory. The 486SL-based GRiD 2270 only has 4 MB of memory and it can only go to 12 MB. It's not internet capable at all even though it is Windows 95 or Windows 95 OSR1 capable and it only has about 48.7 MB of disk space remaining out of a 123 MB capacity. With that little disk space, I don't think it is Windows 95 capable at all.
I'm hoping to get a bigger hard drive, get the CMOS battery replaced and fix the broken right henge.
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Yeah I didnt think they would be able to, the slowest i've been on the internet with was a 66mhz pentium. dos 6.22, its the future 
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Yeah and it's unclear if the pentop will be at least retrofitted with a new CMOS battery.
The slowest PC that I used the internet was a 66MHz 486DX2 PC with a 1.08 GB SCSI hard drive and only 16 MB of memory with Windows 95 retail installed. I was on a dial-up modem at the time.
I eventually upgraded to Windows 98 and unfortunately, it wasn't too capable of handling 16 MB of memory and a second hard drive.
How did your 386-based laptop die on your last year?
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I love that laptop!
Someone at work brought it in, turned had a log on screen but he couldnt remember the password, a few fails and restart, then on time it restarted and the screen just stayed blank white, the screen was dodgy to start with
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Actually the PC that I used from December 1993 to August 1998 was a full tower desktop PC, not a laptop.
He couldn't remember the password to the CMOS setup. Also, why did the LCD display stayed blank white and that it was dodgy to start with?
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no it wasnt the CMOS set up it had an OS i didnt recognise, just a simple text log on.
The screen flickered like there was a loose connection, Fore some reason I cant remember why I havent opened it up yet? when we first got it, it took priority over a failed server scsi drive
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Eep! That's awful!
My notebook PC died literally, because, I believe that the display won't come on and the GPU apparently blew out.
The graphics adapter mentioned is the NVIDIA 8400M G and NVIDIA has came under fire recently over its faulty GPU chips.
I'll eventually remain online for the next three hours and then I'm going to bed.
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Ah definatly the GPU and not the backlight? ah, im an ATI fan personaly
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Yep. Also known as the on-board video graphics card. Many hardware vendors only sell replacements for up to one year and that's it.
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Damn that sucks! oh is this what your looking for in your forum post? [link]
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That's the one that is in the GRiD Convertible 486.
I'm looking for one with either a 210 MB or a 340 MB version.
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ah sorry I just searched the model number of the old one
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Thank you very much 
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well the fire is done, the other part is taking time
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thats the reaction i was looking for
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thats the reaction i was looking for
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look at how productive you are
inspiring the kids to learn are you?
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Yeah it's to help show them what's INS side a laptop
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i wish the teachers at my school were like that
there all boring
because there all so conservative
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Ah wait till you see some of the things im doing to it next weekend....maybe i should come work for your school, sort them all out for you
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you should, there all too uptight at my school
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I will sort them out for you dont worry!(no worries?
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but we don't have corridors at my school XP
anyway, i know what you mean
they'll be dancing down the outside walkway
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yeah
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well, remember, i live one the hottest continent on earth
plus, my school is way to big
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yeah It looked huge on google earth! your continent is too hot.....
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and we don't even use half of it most of the time
it is. it was so hot here today! about 35 i think...
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ah waste of a building! man thats the official temperature of a heatwave here....not that it ever gets that hot
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oh well XP
well, on monday, its gonna get to 42 apparently
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Oh god! Please dont die
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haha it won't
trust me
but i have to go to school
although if it gets hot enough, we can go home
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haha here we go home if it gets too cold
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it never gets to cold at school here, but it sure does feel like it, for us anyway.
its usually, in the middle of winter, about 15, and thats freezing for us.
yeah, of course we do! although sometimes it breaks so we have no aircon, that sucks.
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15...... We had 15 in the summer 
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