Posts by geek75

it was the video card for the pictured system. Replacing it fixed it right up.

Guy sent me a picture of his system today... He had tossed it into the car and then got in himself. The laptop was wedged between him and the console and he squished it pretty bad. Can't remember what model it was.. a Latitude D600...

Yes, more! A lovely shot of a shattered LCD. Never put your laptop in the floor of the back seat before picking up the kids from school!

Here's a charred Latitude D800 that had been in a guy's trunk when his car burst into flames. He escaped unscathed, but the notebook was in rough shape. Amazingly, not only was the data on the hard drive recoverable, but the notebook...

Thanks go to the west virginia state police for these shots :P One laptop, four angles. Very nice!

well it hasn't changed yet and it's been months.. its a paperweight :P

Oh and that system isn't wet or anything! It's all perfectly dry... can't be wiped off or anything. What you see is behind the front glass!

Here's a few more shots. They are all of the same system from several angles. This is what happens to an LCD at 30,000 feet in an unpressurized cargo hold. Geek75

that'd be excellent!

I used to have a large collection. Great for making Dell training material. Techs just don't understand sometimes when lcd damage or malfunction is described by a customer. Like the following . Customers call it "washed...