I am slowly but surely gettting fed up with the whole business. So much crap, people not completing auctions etc, its a real pain. Tonight I won 4 hard drives out of 10. She emailed back to say she only had 6 so I loose out. Then out of the last 7 auctions 2 others are bad. Hi to Amanda; I won an auction for a 512m DIMM, she sent a SODIMM, that doesn't fit, I returned it but she hasn't bothered refunding me. And another clown who didn't send an item or respond to 3 emails. I started the Ebay proceedure (no don't laugh, well all right then...) and it decided that despite the seller living in Luton, the deal was on the US Ebay site, so I had to file over there.
And Laptops, you know they banned lead in solder ?. Well the lead was there for a very good reason, it remains ductile when set, unlike the new rubbish. So when the item heats up, the solder will act like chewing gum and stretch, maintaining the electrical contact. A recent example was a HP NX7000 laptop I finished repairing today. There were bad joints under the ATI graphics chip, and we had to order a new graphics card, which was not cheap. When it arrived you could see it was not new but had been reworked, guess what the ATI Graphics BGA had been resoldered. This is going to happen a lot in the future because of the rubbish solder being used, so if you got a new laptop, consider selling it soon after the guarantee has finished. And there is something faulty about HP DV6000 laptops with the Turion Chip. We had a duff one in; you can normally get a board from various sources, but there are over 20,000 of these boards on back order. Someone has screwed up somewhere, whether its design or component, or crap manufacturer, anyone's guess. And Advent 7100. A common failing on laptops is the DC socket which takes a lot of wear and tear. Normal sockets have a strap around them to support the socket, so the strain isn't taken by the contacts, but not the 7100. All the force is taken solely by the electrical connectors, I fitted a new socket, but have the feeling its going to fail soon.
In fact the only good piece of technology i come into contact with is Miggy
Reliable, always starts, no matter how cold, despite the battery a bit past its best, always has enough space to carry what I want, and always carries passengers in style.
If only everything in life was as reliable as an OMEGAKen
So I googled for Vaux breakers and started phoning. These are rare items, there were a couple but they wanted huge amounts of cash (£125 !), and sell very quickly. After phoning 59 yards, I managed to find a small yard down in Suffolk who took it off and sent it to me for £50. 
