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Dead Hardware Parade: HP Delivers the Juice

Mon, 2008-03-31 13:40 — willfe

Just a short one today. Two days ahead of schedule, the replacement power supply for my notebook arrived; now it’s as good as new again! This one doesn’t short out and stop working at random intervals Eye Huzzah!

Now I’m just waiting for one final piece to arrive, and then the Dead Hardware Parade is over: the 500GB Western Digital disk that died shipped back to Western Digital on Saturday. UPS’ tracker (WD had competitive pricing on shipping costs, so I used their “preferred” shipper instead of DHL since they could generate (for me to print) a custom shipping label that included the RMA number and other control labeling) still hasn’t picked up the actual package (it still just says “Billing Information Received”) but I’m assuming that’s because there weren’t any Saturday pickups at the dropoff spot where I took the drive. It should get picked up today. This one’s going all the way across the country to California, so it’s got a long trek ahead of it.

Meanwhile, the notebook happily slurps power from its new power supply Smiling

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