LCD springs back to life!
Oh my god, my LCD is back.
One week ago my LCD took a real big gulp of water, and after being confronted with ultimate deadness in display despite repeated attempts at resurrection, I had just about given up and contacted IBM to get it fixed. Heartbroken I was, because they said it would cost $895 to replace it. I had gone so far as to get them to send me a box… but couldn’t bear to take that final step because goddamit it costs less than twice that to get a new T42!! Plus I couldn’t live without my laptop anyway, even for a 4 day turnaround.
So I had been working with my laptop connected to an old monitor this whole time. Well, just now, my brother tried to get the laptop to throw something up via the S-cable to the TV so we could watch Azumanga Daiou… and when he swapped the LCD and monitor displays, oh my god the LCD came to life!!
Okay, it’s not perfect, not by a long shot. You can still see these ugly spots on the back of the screen where there’s still some water residue. But hot damn, it displays and it looks like it displays pretty fine. Time to pray to the electronic gods up in cyberheaven that my LCD won’t relapse and continues on its road to recovery.
But wow, I never knew electronics could self heal! Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!
