My poor poor T40 I think has succumbed (is that English?!) to the system board error. It is a known error you see... because of grabbing it firmly with 2 fingers in the front corner of the poor thing. When you should CRADLE it when moving it about, or close it first.
Yeah right, in practical sense that is so not do-able, when I am connected to my favorite Big American Company (BAC for short in future) and I close my lid it loses all connections to everything and it is the pits to reconnect.
So.. say.. as a homeworker I start work from the comfort of my bed, I mean, that is the upside of working from home and owning wireless right?! And I want to carry my empty coffee cup, bottle of water AND laptop to the living room to have a change of scenery how can I lovingly cradle my laptop with both hands?
I tried it today, coincidentally, which now makes me think that that might have been too much for it, there is this technique of having it on the bed, sliding your left hand underneath and rest it like a plate in a restaurant on your arm while securing the right back corner with your hand. This of course also leaves the right hand free for any cups and bottles and making the bed up in one fair swoop.
Oh well.. too little too late I suppose, in the middle of a mail it suddenly froze, I tried to shut it off, it gave me a very nasty blue error about a device being not quite right and that was it.
Spent hours to find the BACs helpdesk number and with a little help of my BAC friend I succeeded to log a ticket with the Indian helpdesk. Of course I needed to test the little thing and thank goodness suddenly it shot back to life (it was terrifyingly black the times I tried before that) I had to put in my harddisk password (GOOOOOOD sign!) and then it said such rubbish to me that I wanted to take a picture of it.
A bit like: kjklj dffff ow dkji8ppioi pin fasdfh y887u njjlj
Poor ikkle thing! SO sick!
So tomorrow it can go with John and then it will be sent off for repair. One hopes that one's repair centre doesn't break one's hard drive since a lot of not necessarily BAC info is stored on it and of course no backup has been obtained by one.
So, hope you all keep fingers crossed now.
In the meantime I am working on 'Bertha' our very trustworthy (till now) desktop computer, a real AMD which was very cool when they came out 5 years ago :-)
And sometimes it is nice to work on something so old, you never know what you find, like a picture of the flat I used to live before I moved to bonny Scotland. It is 14 stories high and we lived in the top floor, 2nd house from the right. Huge eh!?

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