Laptop in a coma, I know it's serious
Jan. 1st, 2009 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyranoAppealing to the LJ hivemind for computer issues.
Tersa has graciously been loaning me her beater laptop, an iMac I've gotten a lot of use out of. Last night, with no precursor, the screen suddenly went blank/black while I was typing, and then went dead. I pushed a bunch of buttons, removed and replaced the battery, removed the power cord, and eventually got it to power up.
But not for long. Before I'd scouted out a flash drive to grab what little data I needed, the screen went black again, and then went dead.
Lather, rinse, repeat, and I'm fairly certain that each time it went out sooner. At one point, the blank screen had a single column of red pixels down the left half of the screen. I found out that if I moved quickly enough and held down the power button while the screen was still on/black, then it would shut down and could be restarted normally.
And I thought I'd check in to see if this sounded familiar to anybody. Comments that include the phrase "oh yeah, this is cheap and easy to fix" are especially welcome. (:
Tersa has graciously been loaning me her beater laptop, an iMac I've gotten a lot of use out of. Last night, with no precursor, the screen suddenly went blank/black while I was typing, and then went dead. I pushed a bunch of buttons, removed and replaced the battery, removed the power cord, and eventually got it to power up.
But not for long. Before I'd scouted out a flash drive to grab what little data I needed, the screen went black again, and then went dead.
Lather, rinse, repeat, and I'm fairly certain that each time it went out sooner. At one point, the blank screen had a single column of red pixels down the left half of the screen. I found out that if I moved quickly enough and held down the power button while the screen was still on/black, then it would shut down and could be restarted normally.
And I thought I'd check in to see if this sounded familiar to anybody. Comments that include the phrase "oh yeah, this is cheap and easy to fix" are especially welcome. (: