Recent content by BadPeteNo

A fiend asked me to take a look at his laptop and see if I could bring it back to life. It shows signs of being dropped hard, but he was on vacation and couldn't confirm it. Shortly before he left, he asked me to give it a tune up, so I know it was in working order about 6 weeks ago. It's a...

Laptop plus upgrade equals no. When you say you want it to game, the general answer is spend $2000 on a new laptop. A desktop can upgrade like that, a laptop generally can't. If you think my answer is wrong, please read the forum guidelines and post back in the systems or laptop forums. You...

I think I figured it out. It's got the quote icon and not the question mark icon. If a mod happens to read this, could you mark Bret here down as having the best answer and change it to a question? Thanks.

...not finding that 'best answer' button... Maybe it isn't available until the thread's been open for a min? Anyway... you'll get some more street cred for your collection tomorrow.

Final update to this one: I successfully tracked down the owner. He owns a small company that sells fancy microscopes. I've contacted him, and we'll be meeting Monday so I can return it. As far as honesty, I don't know if it's really honesty for its own sake. I think I'm just too porous. I...

I shoulda tried harder before I posted. It's probably stolen. I pulled the hard drive, stuck it in a different rig, and ran GetDataBackFromNTFS. I was able to recover enough of the files that were on it before the format and it seems to be someone's work computer. There are all kinds of...

A friend asked me to upgrade a laptop he recently purchased. I know the person he bought it from, and I don't this person even slightly. I suspect the laptop may be stolen, especially considering it's about a year old and my friend bought it for $50. Mind you, I've come across cases where the...

unless you have acidental damage protection, it's probably not covered under warranty

December 2013 hasn't happened yet. You should be able to replace the keyboard. You'll need to get the exact same model. You're lucky it ONLY killed the keyboard.