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My laptop died

PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:20 pm
by dmitri
Well, almost. After a few months of display backlight problems it got very hot in the bottom right corner and started to burn pixels at alarming pace. So to avoid possible burns/fire/explosion I had to switch it off. I did all the development on it, so there won't be any firmware updates/development for awile until I get a new laptop (which I haven't got yet) and transfer everything to it.

Re: My laptop died

PostPosted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:56 pm
by dmitri
Good news. I now have a replacement laptop and I only need to transfer all my data and install all required software.

Re: My laptop died

PostPosted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 11:17 pm
by Synthex
Very good news !! :)

Re: My laptop died

PostPosted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:43 am
by brice
great, now we can have sysex control of chained megadrum pcb's :P
I mean, great you have a new laptop!

Re: My laptop died

PostPosted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:23 pm
by dcho
woot! onward with megadrum's development! :mrgreen:

Re: My laptop died

PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 6:14 pm
by CyberFly
Sounds like you have a heat problem.

Take the whole laptop apart. This can be a little hard so take you time. There are hidden screws everywhere!
Clean the inside of the laptop, get all the dust out. And re-apply some thermalgrease on the cpu.
This will make your laptop run all cool again.

I did the same thing with a laptop I got for free.
It got so hot that it burned a little hole in the cpu heatspreader! :p