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Feb. 14th, 2008 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolariWell, they don't make them like they used to.
I turned on my laptop, it beeped at me, then made a nice little chirping noise, then one beep, four beeps, then six beeps. Followed by "No Bootable Devices" and a HDD Error Code failure.
My Latitude L400, in reality just a Sony VAIO rebranded, took a tumble down a flight of concrete stairs in 2003. It turned on and worked like a champ. This thing, I move it from the bedroom to the kitchen table, and it craps out on me.
At least it's inside 30 days of purchase, so I get a brand new part...but yeesh. Dell doesn't make it's laptops like it used to.
I wont see the HDD until Monday, so I guess I'm stuck out in the living room until then. Or maybe I can cannibalize some of the old L400's HDDs and get the system at least running Windows....
Thankfully, all my work is on the fileserver, and I'd made a ghost of the laptop from BEFORE I even turned it on.
Oi...what a pain....
UPDATE: No can do - my old drives a Parallel, the new one is SATA. Hmmm...maybe it's time to make that "XP on a chip" thing....
I turned on my laptop, it beeped at me, then made a nice little chirping noise, then one beep, four beeps, then six beeps. Followed by "No Bootable Devices" and a HDD Error Code failure.
My Latitude L400, in reality just a Sony VAIO rebranded, took a tumble down a flight of concrete stairs in 2003. It turned on and worked like a champ. This thing, I move it from the bedroom to the kitchen table, and it craps out on me.
At least it's inside 30 days of purchase, so I get a brand new part...but yeesh. Dell doesn't make it's laptops like it used to.
I wont see the HDD until Monday, so I guess I'm stuck out in the living room until then. Or maybe I can cannibalize some of the old L400's HDDs and get the system at least running Windows....
Thankfully, all my work is on the fileserver, and I'd made a ghost of the laptop from BEFORE I even turned it on.
Oi...what a pain....
UPDATE: No can do - my old drives a Parallel, the new one is SATA. Hmmm...maybe it's time to make that "XP on a chip" thing....
