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Laptop wireless card failure!
8 years ago
So, bad news. My laptop wireless card bit the dust. It connects, but then drops the connection quickly, and maintains a slow, intermittent connection. This has been a problem that has been mounting for months.
I believe it was caused by the laptop overheating, as the laptop has also been shutting off randomly when the lid was closed, the fan has had periods where it whirred out of control or even squeaked, and the laptop harddrive sometimes got too hot and had an error. So we took the laptop apart to check, and found areas where the plastic had been browned, which corresponded to the areas that had gotten hot.
So to recap:
*Bad cooling system
*Visible heat damage to laptop interior
*Harddrive suffered errors
*Wireless card has gone out.
I suspect it's time to get a new laptop, and transfer important data (chat logs, reference pictures, etc) from the old one to the new one.
The good news is, I can still draw. I do all my drawing on my PC.
The bad news is, this is going to make streaming more difficult. I have switched to using an old Dell tablet-PC for my side usage, but it's very slow and can barely keep up with Youtube videos, let alone anything more intensive like an hours-long streams. In addition, I only have the single monitor, so I can't monitor stream chats on the same computer I'm streaming with.
It's also a bit of an unexpected expense. It's not something I am completely unprepared for, but I am going to have to use part of the surplus I'm building for this, which means December will be a busy month for me.
SO YEAH. I'll still be drawing, but streaming's gonna be difficult until I get a new laptop.
I believe it was caused by the laptop overheating, as the laptop has also been shutting off randomly when the lid was closed, the fan has had periods where it whirred out of control or even squeaked, and the laptop harddrive sometimes got too hot and had an error. So we took the laptop apart to check, and found areas where the plastic had been browned, which corresponded to the areas that had gotten hot.
So to recap:
*Bad cooling system
*Visible heat damage to laptop interior
*Harddrive suffered errors
*Wireless card has gone out.
I suspect it's time to get a new laptop, and transfer important data (chat logs, reference pictures, etc) from the old one to the new one.
The good news is, I can still draw. I do all my drawing on my PC.
The bad news is, this is going to make streaming more difficult. I have switched to using an old Dell tablet-PC for my side usage, but it's very slow and can barely keep up with Youtube videos, let alone anything more intensive like an hours-long streams. In addition, I only have the single monitor, so I can't monitor stream chats on the same computer I'm streaming with.
It's also a bit of an unexpected expense. It's not something I am completely unprepared for, but I am going to have to use part of the surplus I'm building for this, which means December will be a busy month for me.
SO YEAH. I'll still be drawing, but streaming's gonna be difficult until I get a new laptop.
Just gonna replace it.
IME, those things come loose at the drop of a hat whenever you disasseble anything within a gigaparsec of them and are a PITA to reattach.
You are right about there being a ribbon cable, but given everything else that's gone wrong with this laptop...at this point I'm content to just claim the laptop is cursed.
So uhhh yeaah... Sorry ><