Hello, fellow Kossacks!
This is Sean, DK user thanatokephaloides. I have a small problem that some of you may be able to help me with. Details over the fold!
My main Kos-ing computer, an older (2003) laptop, is dying. In order to keep it on the air, I need to completely strip it to the bone every few days in order to re-solder the AC Adapter socket back onto the motherboard. I've had to do this now roughly 10 times, twice in the month of July alone.
I don't know how many more of these stripdowns the old girl will take. Every time I take this laptop apart and reassemble it after resoldering that socket, plastic parts on the outside crack and break. They just weren't designed to be disassembled and reassembled over and over again like that. And I can't afford to purchase a replacement, even a used one. (The timing of this bad news kind of stank, as usual.)
But I'm not asking my fellow Kossacks for money. Cat only knows you folks have been generous enough with that to other fellow Kossacks in need.
I think I can solve my difficulties with some choice pieces of my fellow Kossacks' junk.
Do you have an old laptop gathering dust in a closet somewhere? Something that ran Windows XP or 2000, but won't run anything of later vintage? Something which ran XP or 2000 but lunched its hard disk drive for some reason? This goes TRIPLE for any mechanically intact Acer Aspire 3680 even if totally dead; I have a semi-living 3680 which I can't use because some of its internal mechanical parts have been shattered and I can't find suitable replacements for them.
If so, before you send any such laptop off to That Great Big LAN In The Sky your local recyclers, would you please leave me a kosmail? Thank You!
Peace and Blessings -- and Thank You again,
Sean
:-)