HP Pavilion x360 Convertible Model 14-cd0007TU Laptop/Tablet Repair:
- I bought a cheap laptop recently as it was really cheap $40. Regardless of whether or not I was able to repair it or not I could always use it for parts. Ironicallly, it was also a better specification then my current laptop as well so if I could fix it it would be a nice upgrade or something I could sell at a profit
- the main issue is that it wouldn't boot. Just kept on looping with the Caps Lock flashing indicating a likely RAM failure issue. I reinserted the RAM but it still wouldn't work so swapped the RAM into an alternate slot which seemed to work
hp laptop 3 long 2 short
https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebooks-Archive-Read-Only/No-screen-on-startup-3-long-beeps-2-short-beeps/td-p/6979452
https://community.spiceworks.com/t/what-is-solution-to-fix-3-long-2-short-beeps-no-display-hp-prodesk-400-g5-mt/804948
https://forums.tomsguide.com/threads/beeps-3-long-and-2-short-times-hp-probook.489201/
- after reseating the RAM the screen was still black when I tried to power it up so I plugged in a LCD monitor via HDMI which seemed to post an image. The problem with there was still no image on the laptop itself but I could see a backlight
- online it said the LCD is held in by heat so I stuck it next to the heater for a few minutes and pried the LCD away from the cover to check it as well as the connector cable. If I jiggled around the LCD connector cable it would work fine
hp Pavilion x360 Convertible Model 14-cd0007TU teardown
https://www.ifixit.com/Device/HP_Pavilion_x360_14-dw
https://www.ifixit.com/Device/HP_Pavilion_x360_14-dw1010wm
- they seemed to have screwed hole somewhere in the bottom plastic panel where it wasn't meant to be so had to push that back together
- there were some missing screws so I foraged around for some that I had left around
- there were some rubber feet which came off so I used some Loctite Kintsuglue which I had leftover from another job to make things look neater
https://www.henkel.com.au/press/press-releases-and-kits/2018-10-15-launch-of-loctite-kintsuglue-884410
https://www.bunnings.com.au/diy-advice/diy-skills/repairing/11-uses-for-loctite-kintsuglue
- as is the case for a lot of laptops being sold online by offices or by criminals this didn't come with a charger. I have old Dell/HP 7.4mm barrel connectors lying around but not the newer smaller diameters ones. Thankfully, there are converters out there to the newer narrower standard being used by HP
- the internals are strange since there's big rubber block in place in one corner. I thought there would be a lot converter cables out there to help slot in a SATA 7mm HDD/SSD but there aren't
hp Pavilion x360 Convertible Model 14-cd0007TU amazon sata ssd connector
https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/Add-SATA-SSD-to-HP-pavilion-x360-convertible-cd0xxx-in/td-p/8977531
- repair cost for this job was $0 since I had all the spare parts lying around that I needed
Lenovo Thinkpad T14 Gen 1 Laptop Repair:
- bought this thing for $60 and was told this thing was completely not-working when there was a liquid spill and was quoted a repair cost of $280. In the US/West it's not really common for technicians to do component level repair on electronics and when I looked up the cost of a replacement mainboard it was ~$300 so this was obviously just a "switch out repair job"
- when opened up the the power switch was disconnected from the mainboard. If you plugged it back in, it would power on but just hang on a black screen with no indication that it would turn on
- I figured out if you leave it on long enough backlight would turn on, so assumed it was related to a CMOS/EEPROM issue as laptops often hang when they try to reset on modern laptops. This was confirmed when the laptop finally booted up to the Lenovo logo and BIOS
- it seems to work but the problem is this thing has "partial amnesia". If you leave it plugged into AC power, date and time settings are retained. If you remove it from AC power, date and time settings aren't retained even if CMOS battery is replaced and battery is charged to full power. This means something along RTC circuit is dead. What doesn't make sense is that there's normally an error that says that on startup if system detects that problem with RTC but this doesn't mention that at all
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_clock
thinkpad 271 error
https://www.reddit.com/r/Lenovo/comments/1dxijs0/error_0271_check_date_and_time_settings_cannot/
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/1akzw06/error_0271_set_time_after_drained_battery/
thinkpad 251 error
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/1dndap1/need_help_with_my_lenovo_thinkpad_carbon_x1_6th/
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/1kquyv6/flashing_lights_during_failed_boot_up/
- I opened the thing up and noticed water stains/oxidisation/rust already forming down the left hand side of the board which I cleaned up. I traced along the circuit between BIOS, RTC, CMOS battery, etc... and I found a chip that blew up (it looks like it has half melted which makes it really difficult to identify and remove) with a label next to it of USB303. I looked around and it seems to be related to power management which makes sense (as the laptop does other strange things like power on automatically when you plug it in but not having this setting turned on inside BIOS). I suspect replacing it will fix the problem if I can find a replacement chip which will likely lead to a total repair repair cost of less then $10. The problem is that I can't identify it or find a suitable donor board at the moment?
what does usb303 chip do on lenovo thinkpad t14s gen 1
Based on common ThinkPad schematics and board component labeling, the USB303 component on a Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 1 typically refers to a USB 3.0/3.2 Gen 1 ESD Protection Diode Array or a similar protection component located near the side USB ports.
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Its primary functions include:
Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Protection: It protects the sensitive motherboard circuitry from static electricity shocks that can occur when plugging USB devices into the USB-A ports.
Signal Integrity/Filtering: It helps filter noise and maintain signal integrity for data transfer speeds up to 5 Gbps (USB 3.2 Gen 1) on the side ports.
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The T14s Gen 1 features USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports on both sides (one is "Always On" for charging devices even when the laptop is off). If this component fails, it often manifests as a single USB port failing while others continue to work.
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https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Lenovo_ThinkPad_T14s_Gen_1
Lenovo T series laptops (ThinkPad) T14 Gen 1 (type 20S0, 20S1) Laptop (ThinkPad), Motherboard, USB and Power Board BoardView files and Schematic diagram
https://laptop-schematics.com/view/13890/
what does us303 do on thinkpad t14 gen1 mainboard
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/uqlyto/thinkpad_t14_motherboard_swap/
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/103na6b/what_is_this_extra_slot_on_my_t14_thinkpad_gen_1/
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/pc4ad0/help_w_identifying_mainboard_component_of_t14_gen/
T14 Gen 1, T15 Gen 1, P14s Gen 1, and P15s Gen 1 User Guide
https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/t14_t15_p14s_p15s_ug_en.pdf
T14 Gen 1 and P14s Gen 1 Hardware Maintenance Manual
https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/t14_gen1_p14s_gen1_hmm_en.pdf
ThinkPad T14 Gen 1 (Intel)
https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T14_Gen_1_Intel/ThinkPad_T14_Gen_1_Intel_Spec.pdf
- I suspect you can bridge it disable the circuit completely as a temporary fix. The problem is that my hobby soldering iron doesn't reach high enough temperatures to get rid of the offending chip (and this is only a hobby for me rather then a job)? This half melted chip seems to be welded to the PCB mainboard now? Whatever caused the original short in the first place seemed to have done a really good job?
can you bridge a noise filter diode to fix it
https://www.reddit.com/r/diyelectronics/comments/u0g7x6/is_it_safe_to_bypass_mains_filter_on_washing/
- the frustrating thing with repairing laptops is the size, specialist equipment that you sometimes need to purchase to get going, availability of parts, lack of documentation, etc... If it's an easier repair it's definitely worth the risk to see if you can repair it yourself
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/12/computerelectronics-data-drive-recovery.html
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Crazy Repair on this expensive device. 24 broken traces. Anritsu Spectrum Analyzer MS2721B
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PS5 Disaster repair - What have they done ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRD3ZMV2t2c
Received This Insane RTX 3090 for Repair and Totally Lost My Mind!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZbMQ_zPICQ
A common problem with Asus laptops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9yYi-7JddQ
https://www.youtube.com/@NorthridgeFix
https://www.youtube.com/@NorthridgeFix/videos
Nvidia H200 NVL repair (does not power on)
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Baran used the surplus concept to analyze underdeveloped economies in his The Political Economy of Growth. Baran with Paul M. Sweezy applied the surplus concept to the contemporary US economy in Monopoly Capital.
Notable among Baran's students was Richard D. Wolff[8].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_A._Baran
- In the book's concluding chapters Baran and Sweezy highlight the growing disparity between the productive potential of US society and the waste and misuse of that potential. They point to racial disparities and the social and cultural costs of the current structure of the political economic system where real basic needs for human development such as education and housing are not met while a belligerent militarism and cultural traits associated today with "consumerism" are cultivated with great effort in the interests of profit. They see the primary weaknesses of the system to be in the imperial realm, as countries in the periphery revolt against the domination of monopoly capital over their economies, a revolt that is increasingly mirrored in the resistance of peoples of color, making up a critical part of the working class, within the United States itself.
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The financial crisis escalated out of control in mid-1931, starting with the collapse of the Credit Anstalt in Vienna in May.[76][77] This put heavy pressure on Germany, which was already in political turmoil. With the rise in violence of Nazi and communist movements, as well as investor nervousness at harsh government financial policies.[78] Investors withdrew their short-term money from Germany, as confidence spiraled downward. The Reichsbank lost 150 million marks in the first week of June, 540 million in the second, and 150 million in two days, June 19–20. Collapse was at hand. U.S. President Herbert Hoover called for a moratorium on Payment of war reparations. This angered Paris, which depended on a steady flow of German payments, but it slowed the crisis down, and the moratorium was agreed to in July 1931. An International conference in London later in July produced no agreements but on August 19 a standstill agreement froze Germany's foreign liabilities for six months. Germany received emergency funding from private banks in New York as well as the Bank of International Settlements and the Bank of England. The funding only slowed the process. Industrial failures began in Germany, a major bank closed in July and a two-day holiday for all German banks was declared. Business failures were more frequent in July, and spread to Romania and Hungary. The crisis continued to get worse in Germany, bringing political upheaval that finally led to the coming to power of Hitler's Nazi regime in January 1933.[79]
The world financial crisis now began to overwhelm Britain; investors across the world started withdrawing their gold from London at the rate of £2.5 million per day.[80] Credits of £25 million each from the Bank of France and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and an issue of £15 million fiduciary note slowed, but did not reverse the British crisis. The financial crisis now caused a major political crisis in Britain in August 1931. With deficits mounting, the bankers demanded a balanced budget; the divided cabinet of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald's Labour government agreed; it proposed to raise taxes, cut spending, and most controversially, to cut unemployment benefits 20%. The attack on welfare was unacceptable to the Labour movement. MacDonald wanted to resign, but King George V insisted he remain and form an all-party coalition "National Government". The Conservative and Liberals parties signed on, along with a small cadre of Labour, but the vast majority of Labour leaders denounced MacDonald as a traitor for leading the new government. Britain went off the gold standard, and suffered relatively less than other major countries in the Great Depression. In the 1931 British election, the Labour Party was virtually destroyed, leaving MacDonald as Prime Minister for a largely Conservative coalition.[81][82]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression
- Etymology
The term Israelite is the English name for the descendants of the biblical patriarch Jacob in ancient times, which is derived from the Greek Ἰσραηλῖται,[33] which was used to translate the Biblical Hebrew term b'nei yisrael, יִשְׂרָאֵל as either "sons of Israel" or "children of Israel".[34]
The name Israel first appears in the Hebrew Bible in Genesis 32:29. It refers to the renaming of Jacob, who, according to the Bible, wrestled with an angel, who gave him a blessing and renamed him Israel because he had "striven with God and with men, and have prevailed". The Hebrew Bible etymologizes the name as from yisra "to prevail over" or "to struggle/wrestle with", and El (God).[35][36] However, modern scholarship interprets El as the subject, "El rules/struggles",[37][38][39] from sarar (שָׂרַר) 'to rule'[40] (cognate with sar (שַׂר) 'ruler',[41] Akkadian šarru 'ruler, king'[42]), which is likely cognate with the similar root sara (שׂרה) "fought, strove, contended".[43][44]
The name Israel first appears in non-biblical sources c. 1209 BCE, in an inscription of the Egyptian pharaoh Merneptah. The inscription is very brief and says simply: "Israel is laid waste and his seed is not" (see below). The inscription refers to a people, not to an individual or a nation-state.[45]
Three Egyptologists have suggested that the name 'Israel' appears in a topographical relief that either dates to the period of the Nineteenth Dynasty (perhaps during the reign of Ramses II) or even earlier during the Eighteenth Dynasty.[46] This reading remains controversial.[47][48]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelites
- Homework, Harvard and high expectations
We've been conducting research with young Asian Australians, aged between 16 and 30, for the last eight years and this tension between resentment, understanding and acceptance marks the relationships that many children of Asian migrants have with their parents. The Asian tiger parenting stereotype, according to our research, is real: all our research participants, more than 60 in total, said that their parents had extremely high expectations of them. Almost all spent hundreds of hours completing extra homework tasks set by their parents and attending private tutoring centres, often multiple times a week throughout their schooling years. Many echoed Liu's sentiments when he described the "true purpose of childhood: getting into Harvard."
Many of our interviewees expressed frustration at their parents' narrow focus on educational achievement, to the exclusion of all else. Rebecca, a recent university graduate, was scathing of her parents' "obsession" with education. Her failure to achieve a place at a top selective school was a source of "shame" for the whole family, she said. Others reflected on their enormous study loads in the lead-up to the selective schools admissions test, some saying they worked harder when they were only ten years old than at any other time in their lives.
Linda said that her adolescent depression was largely caused by her parents' unrealistic expectations, and to boot, "culturally people from China don't really know what depression is". This meant it was almost impossible for her to talk with her parents about what she was going through.
Others were resentful at not having the freedom to choose their own subjects or university courses. They felt forced into "safe" or "prestigious" fields such as medicine, law or engineering, having their passion for the arts and other "useless" subjects crushed. Trades and services were not even on the radar.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jul/03/resentment-acceptance-gratitude-the-paradox-facing-australian-children-of-tiger-parents
- 1.6 kilowatts of power was beamed over a kilometer using a ten gigahertz microwave beam (3,280 feet) as part of the Safe and Continuous Power Beaming - Microwave (SCOPE-M) project. At MIT in Massachusetts, a second SCOPE-M project was set up at the Haystack Ultra Wideband Satellite Imaging Radar (HUSIR) transmitter.
The ten gigahertz frequency was chosen for its ability to beam through heavy rain with a power loss of less than five percent and falls within international standards of safety for birds, animals, and humans that may be present. The Maryland tests saw the system operating with 60 percent efficiency, and though they had a lower peak power, the average power level was higher, resulting in more energy being delivered.
"Although SCOPE-M was a terrestrial power beaming link, it was a good proof of concept for a space power beaming link. The main benefit of space to Earth power beaming for the DOD is to mitigate the reliance on the fuel supply for troops, which can be vulnerable to attack," said Brian Tierney, SCOPE-M electronics engineer.
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/85777/the-navy-just-beamed-1-6-kw-of-power-wirelessly-over-kilometer/index.html
- I bought a cheap laptop recently as it was really cheap $40. Regardless of whether or not I was able to repair it or not I could always use it for parts. Ironicallly, it was also a better specification then my current laptop as well so if I could fix it it would be a nice upgrade or something I could sell at a profit
- the main issue is that it wouldn't boot. Just kept on looping with the Caps Lock flashing indicating a likely RAM failure issue. I reinserted the RAM but it still wouldn't work so swapped the RAM into an alternate slot which seemed to work
hp laptop 3 long 2 short
https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebooks-Archive-Read-Only/No-screen-on-startup-3-long-beeps-2-short-beeps/td-p/6979452
https://community.spiceworks.com/t/what-is-solution-to-fix-3-long-2-short-beeps-no-display-hp-prodesk-400-g5-mt/804948
https://forums.tomsguide.com/threads/beeps-3-long-and-2-short-times-hp-probook.489201/
- after reseating the RAM the screen was still black when I tried to power it up so I plugged in a LCD monitor via HDMI which seemed to post an image. The problem with there was still no image on the laptop itself but I could see a backlight
- online it said the LCD is held in by heat so I stuck it next to the heater for a few minutes and pried the LCD away from the cover to check it as well as the connector cable. If I jiggled around the LCD connector cable it would work fine
hp Pavilion x360 Convertible Model 14-cd0007TU teardown
https://www.ifixit.com/Device/HP_Pavilion_x360_14-dw
https://www.ifixit.com/Device/HP_Pavilion_x360_14-dw1010wm
- they seemed to have screwed hole somewhere in the bottom plastic panel where it wasn't meant to be so had to push that back together
- there were some missing screws so I foraged around for some that I had left around
- there were some rubber feet which came off so I used some Loctite Kintsuglue which I had leftover from another job to make things look neater
https://www.henkel.com.au/press/press-releases-and-kits/2018-10-15-launch-of-loctite-kintsuglue-884410
https://www.bunnings.com.au/diy-advice/diy-skills/repairing/11-uses-for-loctite-kintsuglue
- as is the case for a lot of laptops being sold online by offices or by criminals this didn't come with a charger. I have old Dell/HP 7.4mm barrel connectors lying around but not the newer smaller diameters ones. Thankfully, there are converters out there to the newer narrower standard being used by HP
- the internals are strange since there's big rubber block in place in one corner. I thought there would be a lot converter cables out there to help slot in a SATA 7mm HDD/SSD but there aren't
hp Pavilion x360 Convertible Model 14-cd0007TU amazon sata ssd connector
https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware-and-Upgrade-Questions/Add-SATA-SSD-to-HP-pavilion-x360-convertible-cd0xxx-in/td-p/8977531
- repair cost for this job was $0 since I had all the spare parts lying around that I needed
Lenovo Thinkpad T14 Gen 1 Laptop Repair:
- bought this thing for $60 and was told this thing was completely not-working when there was a liquid spill and was quoted a repair cost of $280. In the US/West it's not really common for technicians to do component level repair on electronics and when I looked up the cost of a replacement mainboard it was ~$300 so this was obviously just a "switch out repair job"
- when opened up the the power switch was disconnected from the mainboard. If you plugged it back in, it would power on but just hang on a black screen with no indication that it would turn on
- I figured out if you leave it on long enough backlight would turn on, so assumed it was related to a CMOS/EEPROM issue as laptops often hang when they try to reset on modern laptops. This was confirmed when the laptop finally booted up to the Lenovo logo and BIOS
- it seems to work but the problem is this thing has "partial amnesia". If you leave it plugged into AC power, date and time settings are retained. If you remove it from AC power, date and time settings aren't retained even if CMOS battery is replaced and battery is charged to full power. This means something along RTC circuit is dead. What doesn't make sense is that there's normally an error that says that on startup if system detects that problem with RTC but this doesn't mention that at all
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_clock
thinkpad 271 error
https://www.reddit.com/r/Lenovo/comments/1dxijs0/error_0271_check_date_and_time_settings_cannot/
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/1akzw06/error_0271_set_time_after_drained_battery/
thinkpad 251 error
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/1dndap1/need_help_with_my_lenovo_thinkpad_carbon_x1_6th/
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/1kquyv6/flashing_lights_during_failed_boot_up/
- I opened the thing up and noticed water stains/oxidisation/rust already forming down the left hand side of the board which I cleaned up. I traced along the circuit between BIOS, RTC, CMOS battery, etc... and I found a chip that blew up (it looks like it has half melted which makes it really difficult to identify and remove) with a label next to it of USB303. I looked around and it seems to be related to power management which makes sense (as the laptop does other strange things like power on automatically when you plug it in but not having this setting turned on inside BIOS). I suspect replacing it will fix the problem if I can find a replacement chip which will likely lead to a total repair repair cost of less then $10. The problem is that I can't identify it or find a suitable donor board at the moment?
what does usb303 chip do on lenovo thinkpad t14s gen 1
Based on common ThinkPad schematics and board component labeling, the USB303 component on a Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 1 typically refers to a USB 3.0/3.2 Gen 1 ESD Protection Diode Array or a similar protection component located near the side USB ports.
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Its primary functions include:
Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Protection: It protects the sensitive motherboard circuitry from static electricity shocks that can occur when plugging USB devices into the USB-A ports.
Signal Integrity/Filtering: It helps filter noise and maintain signal integrity for data transfer speeds up to 5 Gbps (USB 3.2 Gen 1) on the side ports.
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The T14s Gen 1 features USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports on both sides (one is "Always On" for charging devices even when the laptop is off). If this component fails, it often manifests as a single USB port failing while others continue to work.
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https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Lenovo_ThinkPad_T14s_Gen_1
Lenovo T series laptops (ThinkPad) T14 Gen 1 (type 20S0, 20S1) Laptop (ThinkPad), Motherboard, USB and Power Board BoardView files and Schematic diagram
https://laptop-schematics.com/view/13890/
what does us303 do on thinkpad t14 gen1 mainboard
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/uqlyto/thinkpad_t14_motherboard_swap/
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/103na6b/what_is_this_extra_slot_on_my_t14_thinkpad_gen_1/
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/pc4ad0/help_w_identifying_mainboard_component_of_t14_gen/
T14 Gen 1, T15 Gen 1, P14s Gen 1, and P15s Gen 1 User Guide
https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/t14_t15_p14s_p15s_ug_en.pdf
T14 Gen 1 and P14s Gen 1 Hardware Maintenance Manual
https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/t14_gen1_p14s_gen1_hmm_en.pdf
ThinkPad T14 Gen 1 (Intel)
https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_T14_Gen_1_Intel/ThinkPad_T14_Gen_1_Intel_Spec.pdf
- I suspect you can bridge it disable the circuit completely as a temporary fix. The problem is that my hobby soldering iron doesn't reach high enough temperatures to get rid of the offending chip (and this is only a hobby for me rather then a job)? This half melted chip seems to be welded to the PCB mainboard now? Whatever caused the original short in the first place seemed to have done a really good job?
can you bridge a noise filter diode to fix it
https://www.reddit.com/r/diyelectronics/comments/u0g7x6/is_it_safe_to_bypass_mains_filter_on_washing/
- the frustrating thing with repairing laptops is the size, specialist equipment that you sometimes need to purchase to get going, availability of parts, lack of documentation, etc... If it's an easier repair it's definitely worth the risk to see if you can repair it yourself
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2025/12/computerelectronics-data-drive-recovery.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA7GaNLbK5Q
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Crazy Repair on this expensive device. 24 broken traces. Anritsu Spectrum Analyzer MS2721B
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PS5 Disaster repair - What have they done ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRD3ZMV2t2c
Received This Insane RTX 3090 for Repair and Totally Lost My Mind!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZbMQ_zPICQ
A common problem with Asus laptops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9yYi-7JddQ
https://www.youtube.com/@NorthridgeFix
https://www.youtube.com/@NorthridgeFix/videos
Nvidia H200 NVL repair (does not power on)
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https://www.youtube.com/@northwestrepair/videos
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- According to Baran's categories, "Actual economic surplus" is "the difference between society's actual current output and its actual current consumption," and hence is equal to current savings or accumulation. Potential economic surplus," in contrast, is "the difference between that output that could be produced in a given natural and technical environment with the help of employable productive resources, and what might be regarded as essential consumption." Baran also introduced the concept of "planned surplus"—a category that could only be operationalized in a rationally planned socialist society. This was defined as "the difference between society's 'optimum' output available in a historically given natural and technological environment under conditions of planned 'optimal' utilization of all available productive resources, and some chosen 'optimal' volume of consumption."[7]
Baran used the surplus concept to analyze underdeveloped economies in his The Political Economy of Growth. Baran with Paul M. Sweezy applied the surplus concept to the contemporary US economy in Monopoly Capital.
Notable among Baran's students was Richard D. Wolff[8].
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_Capital
- Online PC reseller MSY Technology was found to have abandoned an ACCC-approved set of terms and conditions as early as 2013, court documents showed.
Last week, MSY was ordered to pay $750,000 in fines to the ACCC for misrepresenting consumers' rights on remedies for faulty products, six years after getting fined $203,500 for misleading warranty notices.
In response to a letter from ACCC in 2010 about customer complaints, MSY and its lawyers worked together with the regulator to draft amended terms and conditions.
Court documents show that MSY did publish the amended terms and conditions, but these were removed about January 2013.
"MSY says, and the ACCC accepts, that its representative acted without the knowledge or approval of its senior management in replacing the [ACCC-approved] amended terms and conditions with [MSY's current] terms and conditions," the court document read.
The offending terms and conditions indicated the limited rights of MSY customers regarding returns and repairs, including the seven-day warranty period and the administrative fee for repairs not covered by the warranty period.
https://www.crn.com.au/news/msy-technology-bust-followed-three-years-of-non-compliance-with-accc-476448
- Scientists link a common virus to aggressive skin cancer for first time.
In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have found that a common strain of human papillomavirus (HPV) can directly drive the growth of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) – one of the most common cancers worldwide.
In a detailed genetic analysis of a 34-year-old woman with recurring, treatment-resistant cSCC, researchers discovered that beta-HPV had integrated itself into the DNA of her tumor, producing viral proteins that helped the cancer grow. This is the first time beta-HPV has been shown to do this.
The woman's immune system, weakened by a rare genetic disorder, was unable to clear the virus. But after receiving a bone marrow stem cell transplant, her immune function was restored and her aggressive cancer, along with other HPV-related symptoms, disappeared.
This discovery shows that in rare cases, normally harmless viruses can become deadly in immunocompromised individuals and that personalized, immune-based treatments may be the key to stopping them.
It's a promising step toward better cancer diagnostics and targeted therapies – especially for people whose immune systems don't work like everyone else's.
Read the study:
Ye, Peiying, et al. "Resolution of Squamous‑Cell Carcinoma by Restoring T‑Cell Receptor Signaling." The New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 393, no. 5, 31 July 2025
https://www.facebook.com/fromquarktoquasars
- German banking crisis of 1931 and British crisis
The financial crisis escalated out of control in mid-1931, starting with the collapse of the Credit Anstalt in Vienna in May.[76][77] This put heavy pressure on Germany, which was already in political turmoil. With the rise in violence of Nazi and communist movements, as well as investor nervousness at harsh government financial policies.[78] Investors withdrew their short-term money from Germany, as confidence spiraled downward. The Reichsbank lost 150 million marks in the first week of June, 540 million in the second, and 150 million in two days, June 19–20. Collapse was at hand. U.S. President Herbert Hoover called for a moratorium on Payment of war reparations. This angered Paris, which depended on a steady flow of German payments, but it slowed the crisis down, and the moratorium was agreed to in July 1931. An International conference in London later in July produced no agreements but on August 19 a standstill agreement froze Germany's foreign liabilities for six months. Germany received emergency funding from private banks in New York as well as the Bank of International Settlements and the Bank of England. The funding only slowed the process. Industrial failures began in Germany, a major bank closed in July and a two-day holiday for all German banks was declared. Business failures were more frequent in July, and spread to Romania and Hungary. The crisis continued to get worse in Germany, bringing political upheaval that finally led to the coming to power of Hitler's Nazi regime in January 1933.[79]
The world financial crisis now began to overwhelm Britain; investors across the world started withdrawing their gold from London at the rate of £2.5 million per day.[80] Credits of £25 million each from the Bank of France and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and an issue of £15 million fiduciary note slowed, but did not reverse the British crisis. The financial crisis now caused a major political crisis in Britain in August 1931. With deficits mounting, the bankers demanded a balanced budget; the divided cabinet of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald's Labour government agreed; it proposed to raise taxes, cut spending, and most controversially, to cut unemployment benefits 20%. The attack on welfare was unacceptable to the Labour movement. MacDonald wanted to resign, but King George V insisted he remain and form an all-party coalition "National Government". The Conservative and Liberals parties signed on, along with a small cadre of Labour, but the vast majority of Labour leaders denounced MacDonald as a traitor for leading the new government. Britain went off the gold standard, and suffered relatively less than other major countries in the Great Depression. In the 1931 British election, the Labour Party was virtually destroyed, leaving MacDonald as Prime Minister for a largely Conservative coalition.[81][82]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression
- Etymology
The term Israelite is the English name for the descendants of the biblical patriarch Jacob in ancient times, which is derived from the Greek Ἰσραηλῖται,[33] which was used to translate the Biblical Hebrew term b'nei yisrael, יִשְׂרָאֵל as either "sons of Israel" or "children of Israel".[34]
The name Israel first appears in the Hebrew Bible in Genesis 32:29. It refers to the renaming of Jacob, who, according to the Bible, wrestled with an angel, who gave him a blessing and renamed him Israel because he had "striven with God and with men, and have prevailed". The Hebrew Bible etymologizes the name as from yisra "to prevail over" or "to struggle/wrestle with", and El (God).[35][36] However, modern scholarship interprets El as the subject, "El rules/struggles",[37][38][39] from sarar (שָׂרַר) 'to rule'[40] (cognate with sar (שַׂר) 'ruler',[41] Akkadian šarru 'ruler, king'[42]), which is likely cognate with the similar root sara (שׂרה) "fought, strove, contended".[43][44]
The name Israel first appears in non-biblical sources c. 1209 BCE, in an inscription of the Egyptian pharaoh Merneptah. The inscription is very brief and says simply: "Israel is laid waste and his seed is not" (see below). The inscription refers to a people, not to an individual or a nation-state.[45]
Three Egyptologists have suggested that the name 'Israel' appears in a topographical relief that either dates to the period of the Nineteenth Dynasty (perhaps during the reign of Ramses II) or even earlier during the Eighteenth Dynasty.[46] This reading remains controversial.[47][48]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelites
- Homework, Harvard and high expectations
We've been conducting research with young Asian Australians, aged between 16 and 30, for the last eight years and this tension between resentment, understanding and acceptance marks the relationships that many children of Asian migrants have with their parents. The Asian tiger parenting stereotype, according to our research, is real: all our research participants, more than 60 in total, said that their parents had extremely high expectations of them. Almost all spent hundreds of hours completing extra homework tasks set by their parents and attending private tutoring centres, often multiple times a week throughout their schooling years. Many echoed Liu's sentiments when he described the "true purpose of childhood: getting into Harvard."
Many of our interviewees expressed frustration at their parents' narrow focus on educational achievement, to the exclusion of all else. Rebecca, a recent university graduate, was scathing of her parents' "obsession" with education. Her failure to achieve a place at a top selective school was a source of "shame" for the whole family, she said. Others reflected on their enormous study loads in the lead-up to the selective schools admissions test, some saying they worked harder when they were only ten years old than at any other time in their lives.
Linda said that her adolescent depression was largely caused by her parents' unrealistic expectations, and to boot, "culturally people from China don't really know what depression is". This meant it was almost impossible for her to talk with her parents about what she was going through.
Others were resentful at not having the freedom to choose their own subjects or university courses. They felt forced into "safe" or "prestigious" fields such as medicine, law or engineering, having their passion for the arts and other "useless" subjects crushed. Trades and services were not even on the radar.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jul/03/resentment-acceptance-gratitude-the-paradox-facing-australian-children-of-tiger-parents
- 1.6 kilowatts of power was beamed over a kilometer using a ten gigahertz microwave beam (3,280 feet) as part of the Safe and Continuous Power Beaming - Microwave (SCOPE-M) project. At MIT in Massachusetts, a second SCOPE-M project was set up at the Haystack Ultra Wideband Satellite Imaging Radar (HUSIR) transmitter.
The ten gigahertz frequency was chosen for its ability to beam through heavy rain with a power loss of less than five percent and falls within international standards of safety for birds, animals, and humans that may be present. The Maryland tests saw the system operating with 60 percent efficiency, and though they had a lower peak power, the average power level was higher, resulting in more energy being delivered.
"Although SCOPE-M was a terrestrial power beaming link, it was a good proof of concept for a space power beaming link. The main benefit of space to Earth power beaming for the DOD is to mitigate the reliance on the fuel supply for troops, which can be vulnerable to attack," said Brian Tierney, SCOPE-M electronics engineer.
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/85777/the-navy-just-beamed-1-6-kw-of-power-wirelessly-over-kilometer/index.html
