A pity, oddly enough, about the PSU -- if it were out of warranty, I'd say crack it open and post photos of the guts, maybe that would help us get to the bottom, electronically at least.
But you do NOT want to do that if it's got a warranty on it. Warranty goes POOF! if you open it up...
Yeah...
...or, defective power supply... I've heard of such things. It doesn't appear, from an admittedly quick stop at the relevant Newegg reviews page, that there's too many problems with that particular supply... hmm...
It's not a simple current draw issue, since (obviously) we don't have a 500+...
OK, then, good. Not all dead electronics show physical marks of their demise, however...
Still, at this point, what we need most is the other fellow's accounting of their own story.
No offense, but any real answer is not going to be had without both sides of the story. Half of a story gives a half-cocked and half-baked answer.
Assuming you haven't already, please PM this anonymous gentleman with a link to the thread and ask him to join in if he'd like. It's not required...
Thaaaaaank you :) 17" 1280x1024 over here... big enough for me (lol).
EDIT: TBH I'd make you an offer on something, but I don't need the headset and I can't afford to even dream about the laptops... sorry dude... GLWS tho.
I have a trio of Pentium III Thinkpads... one is missing its optical drive, one needs an LCD cable (I'm quite sure it's the cable and nothing else!) and one has a defective battery.
Individual Thinkpads ship in a Medium Flat Rate. Multiple... we'll work something out.
PM me if you have any...
Drivers. Gotta be drivers on that one.
I have a very old laptop. It's a Dell Latitude CPi. I'm a Puppy Linux evangelist (do you have 45 minutes for me to show you a better OS? :p ) and driver support for the sound card is broken in every single Puppy after IIRC Puppy 412... something in the...