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Fine here - managed to dodge a bullet yesterday.....first of all my e-account was locked out, some attempted hack on Wednesday afternoon but I got notice that it was back on - secondly later that day just as I was about to go upstairs having mailed Minty and another friend, my pc screen went black - some issue with the power not getting through. Fortunately my pc guru was working. I left it with him fearing the worst.
Turned out that he removed the battery and the main boards and then reassembled them, the 'bias' whatever that is, realigned and, 'hey presto', power restored - lighter to the tune of a fiver and, more importantly, I had the laptop back before this long weekend.