Aussie Al replied:

Hi!

Not too sure, but if you're in Perth I can take a look at it for you and see what could be done - I'm in Victoria Park until Monday then off to Singapore (for work unfortunately) for 4 weeks...

Regards

Aussie Al!

Aussie Al replied:

No problem, I am free all day tomorrow, I will give you a call mid-morning.

Best regards

Alan (Aussie Al!)

George replied:

Sorry, there is no way to output video through the USB port. Don't waste your time.
Cheers

Member - Sam (NSW) replied:

i am guessing you have tried connecting an external monitor? as it may have been the LCD only the packed it in.

You could also try starting it up and connecting to it over a network using Remote Desktop (providing of course this was enabled).

Have you also tried reseating the video card? Often there is a panel underneath that you can take off and pry the video card out and then reseat it. A mate of mine had the video card on his laptop go, but he was able to get a reasonably cheap replacement.

jeffwa replied:

I don't know which brand of laptop you purchased, but if you are expecting any better service from them I'm sorry to say that I doubt you'll get it.

I worked in the compuer industry for over 10 years, and although I use laptops everyday, I have pretty much completely switch over to them for everything, when you need warranty work expect to wait and expect to get screwed around. They are all bloody usless IMHO.

Outa Bounds replied:

Yeah we're flexirenting a laptop at the moment, it's a Toshiba Sattelite and about 2yrs old now. Gee I'm really glad we have the 3yr warranty associated with the Flexirent because it's already been sent away maybe a handful of times.
I must say Toshiba does offer great warranty service, absolutely no complaints there at all, it was a pleasure to deal with them last time.
Whilst in Townsville we had a tech come over & fix it a couple of times (something went wrong with the display so he replaced the motherboard & then something else later on which fixed it). And besides that I've had to send it away (no tech in Cobar NSW) a few times because the fan underneath just tends to suck up dust out of thin air and eventually clogs up, starts overheating as a result and shutting down due to this out of the blue. I think it's a known problem for this model as I found instructions on the web how to fix it (basically pull everything apart - everything to get to the fan!).

Even if you have warranty I still hate when computers break down all the time. I'm definitely not buying a HP (prior desktop experience) and most likely not a Toshiba (unless they changed their cooling fan location).

I think when the flexirent runs out I'll get myself an Apple because Vista doesn't sound inviting either.