[Sussex] Laptop repair

[Stephen Williams]

Jon,

I support the battery knackered thesis here. Replace it and you may find
that the overheating problems are minimised.

Not a bad idea to vacuum clean the colling ports to get rid of some
dust, as suggested by Nico.

Steve W.


On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 17:16 +0100, Jon Greenwood wrote:
> Short question:
> 
> Laptop repair (in sussex/kent, if possible). Who do you trust?
> 
> Long story:
> My ubuntu-powered ThinkPad X31 has started to come apart at the seams.
> It overheats when running AND charging the battery (solution: detach
> battery when fully charged). It will not boot cold from battery, but
> will run from battery fine if booted from mains and disconnected
> (solution: use suspend liberally, be near the mains often).
> 
> To my senses, this appears to be a mobo issue which would not be worth
> the repair bill, but you live in hope ...
> 
> ... as the Thinkpad X31 is a fantastic portable linux machine.
> thinkpad_acpi works for ALL the proprietary Fn key combinations,
> wireless just works (ubuntu 7.10/atheros chipset), sound,
> mouse-nipple, CF drive, IrDA, PCMCIA all work out-of-the-box and it's
> got plenty of poke for most tasks (developers note: eclipse 3.2
> struggles).
> 
> Many Thanks in advance,
> 
> 
> Jon
> PS. I will make it to another Moot ... eventually. However, family
> comes first and they are very demanding (in a good way :-) ); however
> it seriously limits available "geek-time".
> PPS. My next post is likely to ask for 2nd hand laptop
> recommendations ... ;-)
> 
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