Life and Kraya by Stephen Ramsay
Posts tagged fault
ACER Travelmate 6592 screen fault
Feb 23rd
Folks, I know I said I would blog more in the new year and I will but in the mean time I just wanted to share an interesting point about my laptop screen.
I have an ACER Travelmate 6592, the power supply blew for it last week and after buying what I thought was a genuine replacement only to find it was a dud, I now have the genuine part (from a different supplier). I have now started having issues with the back-light of the LCD display, it would hiss and flicker before dieing completely. I should say this problem occurred on both Windows vista & 7 and on Ubuntu Linux regardless of kernel version.
Thinking the un-clean power from the dodgie replacement power adapter may have damaged the back light bulb I was all for buying a new one and embarking on the daunting task of changing the back-light, until that is I discovered this blog post by Aral Balkan
Running the laptop on mains with the battery in causes screen flicker / black screen, where as running it with just mains or just battery it works fine.
I should also say that if you are running a laptop on mains all of the time you will shorten the life of your battery, therefore removing the battery from all laptops whilst running on mains for a long period of time is not necessarily a bad thing.
The only question is do I want to pay acer to repair my now out of warranty acer travelmate 6592?
Hope this helps some others out there and a massive thanks to Aral Balkan for his blog post.
Intermittent ADSL Internet Faults in Edinburgh
Dec 16th
We are receiving reports of Intermittent Internet Faults from our clients in the Edinburgh area.
There Internet simply goes down for anything between 1 and 30 minutes.
As we suspected this morning this has now been confirmed as a BT Fault affecting all Customers on the BT Wholesale ADSL network.
More info from zen internet here http://status.zensupport.co.uk/index.php?serviceid=5&incidentid=1616&simple=1
As a result of work to rectify this fault some customers may have limited or no internet connectivity overnight tonight and early tomorrow morning. BT have given an estimate of 6am on Thursday 17th December for resumption of normal service.
We will continue to monitor the situation and bring you updates as we get them.
