Laptop Woes

[JD Austin]

Plug an external monitor into it to confirm it is just the screen.


-- JD Austin
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jd at twingeckos.com


On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
wrote:

> My daughter's Dell D620 seems to be dying. I think the screen is
> dead...the splash screen at boot time does not appear even though the HD
> light is on. It has Ubuntu on it now. I tried running the Dell Diag diak,
> but the screen remained dark as well.
>
> She has one more semester in high school, then off to college with a shiny
> new Macbook Pro. Sort of a family tradition as her two older sisters went
> down the gray path and abandoned Linux for iOS when they went to college. I
> read there will be another generation of Macbook Pros out this summer, so I
> would like to wait to buy her that new Mac until after high school
> graduation...plus relatives always chip in a little extra to mitigate the
> sting of the Apple price tag...;)
>
> Anyway, does anyone have an older laptop they are willing to sell that is
> comparable to a D620 (Core duo processor T7600, 14.1", A couple of Gigs of
> RAM)?
>
> Is there a place that older laptops go to be refurbished and resold? Does
> anyone have any experience with Device Pitstop (2827 W. Peoria Avenue,
> Suite 100-A Phoenix,)? They buy and sell computers.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
>
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