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30 September 2003 / #blog 
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There goes the productivity

Uh - oh… so much for my productive streak today…

The Lock On: Modern Air Combat demo is out…

See you later

Oh and download of the 123 MB file was done in just about 30 minutes - thanks to my 1024/256 ADSL and BitTorrent

    Jens-Christian Fischer

    Maker. Musician
    4 October 2003 / #blog 

    80% new Laptop

    After the switch of the graphicscard last week, the problems with my laptop persisted. That meant that the friendly technician went out of the door and came back a day later with a new mainboard for my computer. After exchanging that - the weirdness on the screen was gone - finally. So I’m left with a 80% new computer: The case, HD, DVD and battery are old, the rest is new ;-) I think that Dell is working on their support processes to minimize the occurence of another case of changing three components before their computer starts working again - a call from their service center an hour after the technician left, leads me to believe that. ...

    Jens-Christian Fischer
    30 September 2003 / #blog 

    Saving a Dell, part II

    After all in all one hour on the phone yesterday with Dell support, flashing of the BIOS, unplugging and plugging the LCD cable and other chant and incantations, today a technician arrived with a brand new LCD panel and switched it for the old one. After switching on the laptop - the same display problems persist…. So it’s not the panel, but the graphicscard that is faulty. I’ll get a new one tomorrow morning - sigh… ...

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