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From: MZB on 3 May 2010 12:29
It's still working great. It may have been the reseating, but I suspect the
disk drive was the culprit.

Mel
"William R. Walsh" <wm_walsh(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:418a4215-88ea-4ee2-a38d-7cd682aee523(a)e2g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...
> Hi!
>
>> The computer now works better than it has in months!
>
> Sometimes that's just how it goes...you have to pull the offending
> device apart to convince it that you mean business. Once a device
> comes to realize that despite your not bringing it into this world
> that you could certainly take it out, it tends to start behaving. <g>
>
> Or you have to deal with it "professionally".
>
> In all seriousness, especially with a portable device, every piece is
> subjected to conditions that desktop computers usually don't have to
> contend with. All of vibration, temperature extremes and life in
> general conspire to make life difficult for a laptop, and all of these
> factors can certainly cause problems. (As it happens, my LatD800
> presently has a keyboard that is troubled. I've got an idea for a fix
> but I have not tried it.)
>
> It's nice when a fix is simple, even if it is something you wouldn't
> have done. I'm glad to hear that your system is up and running nicely
> again...hopefully it stays that way!
>
> William


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