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I have an IBM ThinkPad T60p that I have a love hate relationship with. When I first got it, I loved it. Then within a few months, it bricked itself in the middle of me doing something important (July 4th 2006, in that I recall looking at the fireworks, and then back at the screen and it was gone).
I had it sent out and the motherboard was replaced and it worked again.
But then it started acting up again, in a different way - when you press the power button, all of the lights go out. Basically the total opposite of what it should be doing. I could at least go through a convoluted ritual of plugging things in a certain order, unplugging, taking out the DVD drive, taking out the battery, plugging the power back in, booting it, and then putting parts back in and it would "work".

But now it won't even do that.

I was thinking I would play some poker on it at the higher resolution that it has, but apparently this thing is too far gone at this point, and basically needs to be taken in again - probably for either a new power supply, motherboard, or all of the above.

Bah.