Attn: Laptop Owners

[Davan]

Don't drop your laptop! This is a $765 mistake (not including labour) that I have the privelege of fixing today at work.







Poor sucker...

[Ferio_vti]

Wow the LCD looks f*cked, is it leaking? You have to send for parts/send the whole thing off?
I would think that its a write off.

[Davan]

It's not leaking on it's own. But if you press on it, you can squeeze some of the liquid out.

I had to order a new lcd display. 765 bucks, plus tax. I just order the parts. My boss had be get Dell certification so I can do the work myself, instead of sending it away.

It's a brand new laptop, so it's not quite a write off... yet. Once I get the new display in we'll see if there is any other damage. I suspect a drop hard enough to shatter the display could have also damaged the hard drive, at least.

I'm hanging the old display on my wall like a painting.

[turboMiata]

how did he drop the laptop and damage the display like that?

[Davan]

Beats me. It's impossible to get clients to fess up what they actually did.

[Ferio_vti]

Dell cert?? That's pretty cool.

Go fig with Laptops. I couple of people at Sait put there laptops through a lot and not a scratch appeared. While others babied them and ended up destroying them
One guy dropped his down the stairs, CD, battery and stuff flew out. Worked fine.
Nother girls, got hit by a car, laptop flew a few yards, worked fine too.

[Davan]

I remember seeing a laptop company at a trade show once. I don't remember who.... They parked a car on top of the thing, and it still worked fine!

[turboMiata]

Originally posted by Davan
Beats me. It's impossible to get clients to fess up what they actually did.

yes. I can hear the conversation already:

"i was just surfing the Internet on my brand new Dell. All of a sudden, the screen started cracking and the plastic started falling apart.

Nope, the laptop was sitting solidly on the desk while all this happened. I swear! Ask my dog, Rover, he saw everything.

Do you think it's still covered under the warranty as a manufacturing defect?"

[turboMiata]

Originally posted by Davan
I remember seeing a laptop company at a trade show once. I don't remember who.... They parked a car on top of the thing, and it still worked fine!

Was that Panasonic? It's called the Toughbook or something. Cops use them in their cruisers.

[Ferio_vti]

Originally posted by Davan
I remember seeing a laptop company at a trade show once. I don't remember who.... They parked a car on top of the thing, and it still worked fine!

Was it a ruggedized laptop??
I've seen some pretty cool laptops too. Ie bulletproof, clear plexiglass casing...

[Davan]

Nope, no warranty. Dell would laugh in my face if I tried to get them to warranty that!

It wasn't a panasonic, but I'm very familiar with the toughbooks. Good sturdy units.

It was some other company. The actual laptop had a metal case, not plastic like normal. At the show they were inviting people to jump up and down on them. Apparently they are used by the military or something like that.

[CRXguy]

fcuk!! you're actually working for once!!

[Arthur Dent]

Originally posted by turboMiata


Was that Panasonic? It's called the Toughbook or something. Cops use them in their cruisers.

my company had some of those. The Panasonic rep said they couldn;t be destroyed. So we dropped one from 12 stories up - wreaked. Drove over the over with an Oil Rig truck (about 12 tons) - wreaked it.

But driving over it with a 1 ton truck is fine!

[Ben]

This reminds me when I was a bike tech...We called instances such as this "JRA's" or "Just Riding Along".

Customer would come in with the front rim tacoed, and the read one warmed out of orbit, and the frame all filthy and hub cones lose as fcuk. "Yeah, I was just ridning along, and the rim bent. What is this poor craftsmanship, whats the warrenty process"


Yeah, Okay Buddy...

Another time a kid came in with an Easton Synergy hocky stick, broke right in half in the middle...Gives my mamager shit about poor quality and all that good stuff...Then I recognise the guy...I walk up...I'm like, "So it was a pretty disappointing game last night hey?" And hes like "What do you mean", and I'm like "Gross Misconducts are not good penalties to get are they?" Hes like, "Well, No, of course Not" I smile and go "Well the next time you smash your stick over the goalpost, dont come back to the store of the Referee works at...makes warrenty claims a bit more difficult..."


And its brutal too, cause then the Father and the son are both proven liars infront of several people, and they look like real dumbshits! I laughed so hard, and my manager bought me a beer that night.

[Davan]

Originally posted by CRXguy
fcuk!! you're actually working for once!!

Yeah... imagine that...

I figure it's about time. The laptop has sat in the "penalty box" for about two weeks now...

[Davan]

Originally posted by Benny
This reminds me when I was a bike tech...We called instances such as this "JRA's" or "Just Riding Along".

I call these one's "DFU calls". Dumb Fucking User.

[Davetronz]

Originally posted by Davan


I call these one's "DFU calls". Dumb Fucking User.

Hahahahahahahahahahah

Nice one Davan.
Yea I am working on a Compaq 1260 today, has a fucked screen too. I think its just a connector though. Nice blue line down the left center side of the screen!
And I am also working on a Mac G3 233..... Yea..... I have no Mac software so I am kinda up the creek on that one until I get a Mac Internet browser...
And an IBM I series notebook, really nice machine, pretty new, but the hard drive is password protected by mistake so I think the HDD is trash.

[Davan]

Originally posted by TurboDSM


And an IBM I series notebook, really nice machine, pretty new, but the hard drive is password protected by mistake so I think the HDD is trash.

Want a copy of KillHD? Run it once and EVERYTHING is gone... permanently.

[Davetronz]

Lol I think I got it to work. The password was "iseries" the model of the laptop......

[LUDELVR]

Originally posted by turboMiata
how did he drop the laptop and damage the display like that?

When looking at porn on a laptop, one should really not use one hand to suspend it in the air....the laptop that is!! hahaha