User:C3/The maintenance and repair page

Protocol

1.the name of the device 2.the problem 3.how to solve the problem 4.the status (done, ongoing, upcoming)

About

Since March 2024 I started doing more things connected to repurposing and repair, I've been exposed to these topics over the past years, but I only got closer them recently.

The repair (and maintain) page is a logbook that I will use to document log this journey over time. Not everything in this page demands highly specialised skills, in fact this journal is also an attempt at showing that sometime the required fixes are fairly easy.

Why

There are many reasons I am interested to this topic, but the main one is material. In 2023 I bought a new computer and was not happy about it. My previous after 6 years was still (and still is) pretty solid, but I had various mysterious problems connected to the software that I was using to develop my bachelor thesis project. The work that was still left to do, the time left, and the random total failures I was getting at running this software pressured me into buying a new laptop. Not only I was not happy about it, but after only 1 year of usage that very new, powerful, amazing laptop turned out to be simply terrible to use (I had various problems with the screen, the battery reading was always wrong, the temperatures were very high even though I was not doing any demanding work on it yet). Coincidentally, not so long after I bought the new laptop, I found an old one in my basement, which was smaller and lighter and... not working. I was also writing my thesis and I was curious to see if it could be fixed so I could use it to write, instead of carring around a 15.6 laptop to write some txt files. And this is how it started.

Log

ASUS Eee Pc 1215B

Lenovo Thinkpad L512

HP ProBook 440 G5

Dell Chromebook 11