Electronic Corpses
Oct. 18th, 2020 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperI was doing some cleaning today and found Gretchen's old HP Stream laptop and charger, the former of which failed some years ago. Gretchen suggested that I plug it in and see what happened.
Short answer: this is one sick (and unrepairable) laptop. I may give it one more try, but I will probably have to wait several months for the battery to discharge to take another run at it, as it crashes / shuts down repeatedly and won't even let me run another BIOS reset.
I suspect that the soldered-in motherboard RAM is toast.
On the other hand, now I remember why I will no longer buy HP computers.
Short answer: this is one sick (and unrepairable) laptop. I may give it one more try, but I will probably have to wait several months for the battery to discharge to take another run at it, as it crashes / shuts down repeatedly and won't even let me run another BIOS reset.
I suspect that the soldered-in motherboard RAM is toast.
On the other hand, now I remember why I will no longer buy HP computers.