Subj : Re: Purism Librem 14 - Dead after ~4 Months
To   : Greenlfc
From : MeaTLoTioN
Date : Wed Aug 17 2022 19:24:11

On 17 Aug 2022, Greenlfc said the following...
 
 Gr> On 10 Aug 2022, MeaTLoTioN said the following...
 Gr>  
 Gr>  Me> Wow good idea hooking up to the fuse, glad you managed to get your
 Gr>  Me> backups done. Do you have any ideas why the power may have just died?
 Gr>  Me> 
 Gr>  Me> How long did you get as an ETA for turnaround? Hopefully it'll be
 Gr>  Me> resolved and back with you sooner rather than later.
 Gr> 
 Gr> I'm guessing it's like in the Macbooks that Rossmann is always
 Gr> repairing, that the chip that handles the charging is kaput.  Wiring it
 Gr> up to the fuse just let me bypass all of that and get it running.  The
 Gr> laptop was a little confused; it knew it was running on battery, but
 Gr> didn't think it had a battery installed :D.

Oh right, haha well either way it's a genius approach and something I shall try 












































































































































































































































































































































































and remember should a reason arise for me in the future, that's a life line 
worthy of sharing.

 Gr> They haven't provided me with an ETA yet.  The puri.sm forums seem to
 Gr> hint that it's usually ~5 weeks.  I'd be pissed if I wasn't in IT and
 Gr> didn't already have a stack of alternate machines to fall back on.

Right, I guess we live in a time when computers are ample and not nearly like 
they were back in the day, perhaps almost a disposable mindset for some due to 
how commonplace "computers" can be.

 Gr> One more thing that's a fit/finish issue; I noticed a rattle inside a
 Gr> few weeks after I started using it, but didn't care enough to pull it
 Gr> apart to investigate.  When I pulled it apart I found that the BIOS
 Gr> battery is held down with a square of double sided tape, which had given
 Gr> up on life.

Oh no, that's probably not a good sign, I guess they ran out of 
space/time/passion to make a properly fitting bracket or something, it's not an 












































































































































































































































































































































































end of the world scenario, but we don't live in the bodge it and try kind of 
world we once lived in when things like computers were entirely hobbyist 
equipment I guess.

Fingers crossed the ETA of ~5 weeks is accurate and not delayed for you. Keep 
us posted on the progress of it.

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