[TriLUG] Advice Please

[Dwain Sims via TriLUG]

Generally have I had good luck with Thinkpads over the years.  Reading
more, this particular model with an AMD processor, which probably has
nothing to do with this failure, has been prone to GPU death and when it
does it takes the entire MB with it.  There appears to be no repair.  It is
a very clean system with no real signs of wear.  It looks like it just came
out of the shipping box.  I hate to see it dead.  A new MB is probably
250-300 which makes it borderline unrepairable.

Thanks for all of the tips!

Dwain

On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at trilug.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Feb 2025, Dwain Sims via TriLUG wrote:
>
> > I left it on over night and I am recharging it today.  Still nothing.
> Just
> > a paper weight.
>
> Sorry to hear it.
>
> I guess you're now amenable to advice on what to replace it with.
>
> o I had Thinkpads for 20 years and liked them a lot. I understand that
> when they went full Lenovo the quality dropped. This may be what's
> happened to you.
>
> o I have a Dell laptop now. It's OK, but I dont need a wide screen (1440
> pixels) on a laptop and I'd rather have the smaller format of the Thinkpad
> (1024*768) and the smaller size of the laptop. As well the large built-in
> Dell mousepad, in the center of the keyboard area, is under my hands when
> I type and I have to manually turn it off (which I can only do after
> bootup) and use an external mouse, which negates the point of having a
> built-in mousepad. The only way you can type with the Dell mousepad on, is
> to hold your hands in the air. The Thinkpads had a small nubbin in the
> middle of the keyboard, for the mouse, which didn't get activated when you
> typed.
>
> Joe
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