Recent content by Grdaddy

There is more competition in the Windows-based notebook realm due to it being open to many manufacturers, rather than Apple's sole OS / Desktop / Notebook / iPod / iPhone corporation. Given that however, their computers are plenty fast, but do note, they come out with updates and upgrades to...

Thanks Kevin. Gosh, it's been 5 hours now since the problem arose. This is actually one of the faster troubleshooting turnarounds. It really helps having someone back up ideas though. I'm finding the ribbon for ~$20USD. I'll look for a lower price, but I think that solves it.

Thanks for the hospitality. After racking my brain for a bit, I decided to have a look around. I didn't notice this after cleaning it. It was my last dissassembly until breaking down and just buying a whole new trackpad / keyboard combo piece which looks like it ranges from $150-250 or a...

I replaced the hard drive for an SSD today and everything went great, or so I thought. After boot up, there are just 4 keys on the far top right of the keyboard that no longer work. The Delete, Backspace, \, and Enter Keys have no response. Since they are so isolated, I'm trying to figure out...

Inspiron 6400/E1505 So this notebook is giving me hell. On boot up, it'll start fine, we get to Windows and the screen will go completely dark. You can shine a flashlight to it and you can still seen the screen. At first I thought it was within the Windows start up somewhere, but restarted...