Pwned by my work laptop

[kyparrish]

Okay, so I was in a client's house today getting some work done. I went to plug my laptop in as the battery was about to run out, and as soon as I plugged it in...POW. Cue the sweet scent of burning electronics, and the soft smoke billowing out of the laptop's vents.

So, my PC Support team gives me the number to call IBM, since, it's OBVIOUSLY a hardware issue. The IBM guy LAUGHS at me. Says that there's probably nothing they can do to fix it, but I have to send it in to have it looked at, since it is owned by my company.

What a day. I'm hoping it's fubar'd enough that work will just give me a new HP with a Pentium M 🙂

:smoke;

 

[Anonemous]

Originally posted by: kyparrish
Okay, so I was in a client's house today getting some work done. I went to plug my laptop in as the battery was about to run out, and as soon as I plugged it in...POW. Cue the sweet scent of burning electronics, and the soft smoke billowing out of the laptop's vents.

So, my PC Support team gives me the number to call IBM, since, it's OBVIOUSLY a hardware issue. The IBM guy LAUGHS at me. Says that there's probably nothing they can do to fix it, but I have to send it in to have it looked at, since it is owned by my company.

What a day. I'm hoping it's fubar'd enough that work will just give me a new HP with a Pentium M 🙂

:smoke;

Was the data backed up?

 

[jagec]

I don't get what's wrong in your sig...or don't you turn off the lights when you sleep?

 

[intogamer]

:laugh:

 

[kgokal]

HAHAHah, Stinkpads is what we call them at IBM...hahaha

 

[Anonemous]

Originally posted by: jagec
I don't get what's wrong in your sig...or don't you turn off the lights when you sleep?

naw that was from the DLP bulb thread that ifesor posted. He bought a big screen and plans to return it after finding out the DLP bulb lasts 8k hours. I dunno how it ended.

original thread

 

[kyparrish]

Originally posted by: Anonemous

Originally posted by: kyparrish
Okay, so I was in a client's house today getting some work done. I went to plug my laptop in as the battery was about to run out, and as soon as I plugged it in...POW. Cue the sweet scent of burning electronics, and the soft smoke billowing out of the laptop's vents.

So, my PC Support team gives me the number to call IBM, since, it's OBVIOUSLY a hardware issue. The IBM guy LAUGHS at me. Says that there's probably nothing they can do to fix it, but I have to send it in to have it looked at, since it is owned by my company.

What a day. I'm hoping it's fubar'd enough that work will just give me a new HP with a Pentium M 🙂

:smoke;

Was the data backed up?

for the most part...I've got a ~month old backup CD around here somewhere. Plus, IBM support told me to keep the hard drive here, so, if they fix it, or send another *Stinkpad 🙂 out to me, I should be up and running as soon as I plug the HD back in

 

[AStar617]

With a username beginning with "KY", how could you expect anything less than getting fcked?

...Sorry, someone had to. lol.

 

[FoBoT]

if it smoked, it probably isn't worth fixing, well , how old is it?

 

[imthebadguy]

ibm's are usually the best around...imo

 

[Mungla]

Originally posted by: imthebadguy
ibm's are usually the best around...imo

Love my X31. So small that I cannot feel added weight from it in my bookbag.

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: Mungla

Originally posted by: imthebadguy
ibm's are usually the best around...imo

Love my X31. So small that I cannot feel added weight from it in my bookbag.

I just got a T42p from work. 1.8GHz, 1GB RAM, ATi FireGL video card... it is the hotness....

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Anonemous

Originally posted by: kyparrish
Okay, so I was in a client's house today getting some work done. I went to plug my laptop in as the battery was about to run out, and as soon as I plugged it in...POW. Cue the sweet scent of burning electronics, and the soft smoke billowing out of the laptop's vents.

So, my PC Support team gives me the number to call IBM, since, it's OBVIOUSLY a hardware issue. The IBM guy LAUGHS at me. Says that there's probably nothing they can do to fix it, but I have to send it in to have it looked at, since it is owned by my company.

What a day. I'm hoping it's fubar'd enough that work will just give me a new HP with a Pentium M 🙂

:smoke;

Was the data backed up?

Who cares...he's getting a new lappy😎