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On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:36:13 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote: On 1/21/14, 12:59 AM, wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:10:56 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: I still have an older XP laptop but something recently died in it. It won't boot up anymore. Any idea of what is going on? Does it get through POST? Do you see signs of life from the boot drive? I hate seeing these things getting thrown in the land fill for a minor problem. If it is an old laptop, and it isn't a software or software update problem, then you have to weigh the time and expense involved in a repair versus buying a new laptops. Run of the mill laptops are pretty cheap these days, and almost any of them would be many steps up from an old XP-era laptop. I suppose if you take it to a shop that wants to sell you a new laptop, fixing it will always be more expensive but if you can take out 2 screws yourself and throw a $50 hard drive at it you are at least $450 ahead. I am still not sure what is wrong with an XP machine. What can your new I-Mac or W7 machine do that mine can't? I tried to have this discussion with our HOA. They only manage a $12,000 a year budget, maybe 200 transactions a year total and they want to buy a new machine because the XP machine is "old". My wife ran a quarter million dollar business on a 5150 (original PC) There also are plenty of used, operating laptops available at pawnshops. I saw a whole showcase full of them when I was salivating over the McIntosh amp I finally bought. At that point, why not fix the one you have? I usually get mine from a surplus outfit that sells off lease machines They come with legally licensed business software and a warranty. You can reload the whole thing from scratch since you have the license keys. A pawn shop would be the last place I would get a machine. The motherboard on my HP pavilion laptop is bad. $175 for just the board. I need a program to read a FAT32 drive on my imac. Put the SATA drive in a USB box. |
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