Re: Time for a new laptop?

Eric Grange wrote: 
 > About half an hour through the backup the laptop just shuts off.

The poor thing is probably overheating, suffering from dust accumulated in bad places or failing fan motor(s).
If you feel adventurous, open it and give a thorough cleaning to all the air ducts and fans you can find, it may give it a new life... 'till you buy a new one.

Eric

I disconnected the laptop from my docking station and network and carried it to a quite room (away from my other noisy machines).

I restarted it and the two cpu fans in the back definitely don't appear to be spinning. If I blow on them they spin easily so they don't appear to be blocked. Perhaps a "motor" is burned out?

I thought I try to a ghost backup to the local drive. Maybe having the laptop open in a cooler room can make enough of a differenct to get a ghost image.

If I'm sucessful (or even if not since I have other ghost images anyway), I think I go out and get an "interim" laptop while I wait for the dual core mobiles to hit the market...

Seems the most prudent choice.

-d
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