One of our trainers stoped in last week and said that her laptop kept shutting down and was missing some keys. I started the laptop up and in a couple minutes it went to sleep. Before I did any other trouble shooting I called our desktop person over and he decided to just give her one of the newer smaller HPs that we issue.
Later in the week I heard they were going to be getting rid of some of the equipment that was broken or not worth trying to fix. I sent a quick email to see if I could get the laptop and help it to the trash :o) That turned out to be a good idea. I got the OK to take it away as they were not planning on trying to fix it or give it to another trainer. I started it up and it did go to sleep. It turned out that the setting for the laptop to go to sleep was set to 5 minutes.
When I got home I changed that setting and since it was a DELL and I had helped my dad with his DELL a couple times, I new that there was a recovery partition. I accessed the recovery and wiped the laptop back to a fresh install of XP Pro :o) The laptop other than the two missing keys (F5 and F6) was perfect. Seeing that We have the desktop and the other HP laptop (I dont think i blogged that one yet) I decided to make this laptop my own.
It is a DELL Inspiron 1150. It has a Intel P4 2.8 ghz and I think 512mg of RAM. It is probably better than my desktop PC except for the RAM but i think it can be upgraded to a gig of RAM. I installed Ubuntu linux on it with the Gnome desktop. It's a pretty cool machine. I think the next time I have to actually buy a PC I'll just skip the desktop and go with a nice laptop...
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