It would just figure that my notebook would decide to die. On Thursday afternoon, I left to go pick the kids up from school, and when I returned I found the thing displaying a nice little arrangement of blue and white vertical stripes on the screen. I powered it off, and let it set for 15 seconds, then switched it back on. No display this time. I turned it back off, with the hopes that a few more minutes of rest might be what it needed. Then, while looking down at the casing, just below the keyboard, I noticed a sunken spot. Something had overheated, and melted the case.
I took the thing apart to investigate. No big chore–I had to take it apart a month or so ago to repair the power supply’s jack. Once I disassembled the computer, I found that the graphics processor had overheated.
I pieced it all back together, and turned it back on, in hopes that the time taken to tear it apart had given everything time to cool down. I switched it on, and it was working fine–or so I thought. When I attempted to log into Windows, I found that the keyboard wasn’t responding, nor was the touchpad. With a little bit of frustration, I took the keyboard off, and reseated the ribbon for the touchpad and the keyboard, and tried it again. No luck. I plugged in an mouse and a keyboard, and still no luck.
So, it would seem that when I left, something happened to fry out the keyboard & mouse controllers, and caused the graphics processor to overheat (or vice-versa).
Now I am, once again, without a computer. 🙁
I went to CompUSA and bought an enclosure for my harddirve, and am accessing all of my information on Diana’s notebook. I also found a nice little notebook bundle at a nearby Wal-Mart that I plan to buy in a few days. The bundle is a leftover from this past Thanksgiving’s sales. So, I’ll end up getting a new notebook, and Diana will get a digital camera and photo-printer out of the deal. Not how I wanted to spend our extra tax-money, but, it works.
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