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Surge knocked out Laptop NIC

Thread starter antowan
Start date Nov 3, 2007

antowan

Honorary Master

Nov 3, 2007

#1

Anychance there might be a simple fix or is this permanent?

HP dv5000

R

Ricard

Expert Member

Nov 3, 2007

#2

Had a similar event on my IBM Thinkpad

The repair quote was more than I paid for the thing! I just got a Ethernet PCMCIA/CARDBUS adapter and carried on.

antowan

Honorary Master

Nov 3, 2007

#3

Ricard said:
Had a similar event on my IBM Thinkpad The repair quote was more than I paid for the thing! I just got a Ethernet PCMCIA/CARDBUS adapter and carried on.

I think I will have to do the same I guess.

ic

MyBroadband

Super Moderator

Nov 3, 2007

#4

Is your onboard 802.11g also fried?

antowan

Honorary Master

Nov 4, 2007

#5

ic said:
Is your onboard 802.11g also fried?

Haven't check yet. Will have to see...

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