recently had an IBM Thinkpad 770 go dead. It was
sent for repair and was finally deemed "cheeper to
replace than repair". My office is the official
company electronics/computer dumpster, so it ended
up here. The note stuck to it by the repair place
says "dead motherboard". I have dissassembled it
My two cents
Fix the motherboard instead of playing with the LCD.
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