dropped my laptop while getting on the bus and cant get it to come on for nothing screen is black. someone please look at it or refer me to a good cheap tech not over $25, for things aint been going well, and i need to hold onto at least 25 $40-60 buyins, im running outta money.

since i wont be reachable online find tony bigcharles in the stratosphere poker room today or call and ask for my room. (i dont need to mention the room number here, just ask the operator for me). surely theres a computer tech around. am at the internet cafe for $5 for 20 minutes, a huge ripoff right next to the stratosphere. need to use my own computer so i can get my last $273 off absolute poker.

meow

Tony, if you dropped a laptop and the screen doesn't come up anymore, you likely have busted it way more then a $25 fix. Laptops are great until you drop them, then they are just junk.

Most expensive part of the laptop is the screen. Could run anywhere from $400-800 depending on size and type of screen. I don'tknow any computer techs there, however maybe ask someone at the Internet Cafe? They might know, or ask your concierge if they have a recommendation

check out craigslist i always see ads for laptop screen replacements under services / computer

nevermind heres the link i wasnt lazy today

http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/sys/1029498254.html

hmm i clicked on that post and it says deleted. am staying at the sahara, but mostly playing osheas and bills. checking out tues, never did get the screen to come up, but i can hear and see the lights when computers turning on. really need a computer tech to get ahold of me. im down to the final few hundred of the $3500 i came with, so im about to just go back home i think, i have another computer (desktop)there. and no i didnt lose it at poker. cept for maybe about $400 of the final money. doesnt anyone in vegas who fixes computers play at osheas ever?

why do u need this laptop so desperately?
u can get a netbook for like 250 easy nowadays

http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/sys/1034551838.html

probably because ive got so little left of that $3500 roll i came to vegas with, i can barely pay $30 to get a room for 2 more nites, let alone paying to fix a computer or buy a new one.

WHy has no one asked you how you are posting if your laptop is broken? Are you just guessing? If so I don't see how they can be beating you at poker.

Well, some of us assumed he's continuing to go back to the internet cafe he mentioned in the OP.

this post amuses me but is also very sad.

OP, at least you can say you have contributed to the vegas economy, we need you

paying $3 for 15 minutes on the internet cafe in the grocery place next to mcdonalds on sahara. yes i think i need the cheapest new screen monitor i can find, someone told me they have them at value village for $20 used? not sure how to do it though.

just take the last of your roll and go back home to kansas. everyone on pocketfives told you how insane your plan was when you made that thread two weeks ago or whatever it was.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD JUST GO HOME AND STOP GAMBLING.

Even if you could get a replacement screen compatible with your laptop for free, I think it is unlikely you'll be able to find anyone willing to do the work to replace it for less than $50 or $100. In my limited experience, laptops are a pain in the ass to work with and I doubt anyone would figure it was worth their time to do a laptop screen replacement for less than that.

sevencard has been posting his exploits all over the innernets since way before that p5s thread. guy is autistic with a young (pre school age afaik) son he leaves his mother to raise. posts like augie's are all too familiar.

tony take it as a sign and go home to your family

are u crazy? he's 16 almost 17 soon this summer. and id be doing fine in vegas had i not broke my laptop and dropped about $2500 on non poker games. havent touched any machines in over 4 days. i cant believe no one at any poker tables i go to is willing to own up to being a computer tech.

GO HOME

hey i took it to a computer place, asked what it would cost to fix and they said its the motherboard and not worth fixing.

Tony, listen to the advise your friends at PTP gave you. You can go home, be with your kid, and still play poker in KS.

Also Tony, there might be a ray of hope for you, re: your laptop.

My buddy's laptop just quit working one day. For weeks would turn it on, and it would start to startup and then just turn back off. Eventually he got pissed one night and threw the laptop against his wall. He left it there for a few months. One day he tried to start it and it worked perfectly, and still does to this day.

Cliffsnotes: Try throwing it

The old tube TV trick, a slap on the side will stop the scrolling screen. Where did those good old days go.

this is sooo not a typical thread for this forum.

This is what my high school chemistry teacher called "percussive maintenance." It worked like a charm, too.

prob, but im not sure how you could tell from that post =P

sorry about misquoting your son's age. i just remember your other posts mentioning xmas gifts and school so i must have just assumed he was younger.

anyway , what Mr. Tim Caum said...