[geeks] Laptop LCD defect *rant*

[Dan Williams]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bjorn Ramqvist" <brt at g.haggve.se>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: [geeks] Laptop LCD defect *rant*


> Gavin Hubbard wrote:
> >
> > Although it isn't ethical, I'm really tempted to disconnect the
backlight
> > power lead (which can be accessed by removing the keyboard) and declare
it
> > DOA. I'm not usually that nasty, but that unblinking red pixel is slowly
> > driving me nuts in a disembodied HAL 2000 sort of way...
>
> Fsck the ethical part, I'd do it. Just drag out that cable enough to
> cause the backlight to go black, then you could always refer to your own
> theory that "something must have happened during shipment".
>
> /Bjorn
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But what happens if against all odds they examine it....
Realise whats happened, plug it back in and send it back

Dan