andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner) (01/17/91)
I bought a Toshiba T3100SX, and found a manufacturing defect: three
columns of pixels on the display were flakey and would shine with the
wrong intensity. Sigh. It took my dealer a week to get a replacement,
and this one is fine except that the "DC IN" LED never lights.
This problem is small enough that I don't want to wait another week for
another replacement (and another defect). My choices are to try to fix
it myself, or to mail it in for factory service when next I won't need
it for a few days (like, during my next ski vacation). The local
authorized repair folks can't do any better -- Toshiba won't let them
stock parts, so they put the machine on the bench, pull out whatever's
defective, mail it in, and wait two weeks to receive the replacement.
I'd be grateful to hear from anybody who has experience with changing
LEDs in a Toshiba T3100SX. Is this something I can do, or am I likely
to screw up the machine?
The T3100SX is an outstanding design, but Toshiba's quality control
absolutely stinks.
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