Never taken a laptop to pieces before, not any more than installing extra RAM anyway.
On my way back home now, but next time I'm there I'll have a look at taking it apart.
"Screen is completely dead, no BIOS, no beeps".
By "no BIOS" I assume you mean you can't get to the CMOS setup menu. If that's the case, then "no BIOS, no beeps" usually means the CPU is toast.
Assuming you've tried Matt's suggestions, if it's still a no-go, see this post of mine on the PCmag board, for why the 4-second soft-off still works. (Not to be pedantic, but it's always 4, not 5 seconds).
Dude, you need to reduce your font size. I have to sit another foot away from my screen to be able to read your posts comfortably.
I refuse to have my eyes exchanged for a different model when it's easier for you to make the setting changes. :C
What browser are you using on the ol' phone there?
Admittedly I've not tried using anything other than Firefox to view the posts, so could be different in alternatives.
"Dude, you need to reduce your font size".
For my aging eyes it looks just fine. However, most browsers have some type of font "normalizer" (probably more accurate to call it a "compressor") that forces larger fonts down, and smaller fonts up, to a preset size. It's usually hidden somewhere with a title like "accessibility settings".
Barring that, you may notice near the bottom of the page a section labeled "Adjust text size". I highly suggest you consider its use.
Suffice it to say, I have no intentions of altering my formatting, preset by Frontpage (in which my posts are composed) to 12 point, considered a "medium" font.
"...they're all resized to be the same!"
As I point out above, most browsers have some facility for doing just that. On most phones it's enabled by default.
Let me point out that I frequently post at four other stateside Beehive forums, and no one has ever complained.
"but your formatting overrides that!"
It shouldn't. I think that's either a bug, or a setting in Beehive that Matt has applied, forcing that override. (Maybe something in one of the CSSs is affecting things).
Matt, what say you?
Because, as best I can tell, it's not working that way at any of the stateside Beehive forums I frequent.
I just did a quick sanity check of my posts at some of those stateside forums, and I see only a slight difference in font size with IE, and a slightly exaggerated difference with Opera and Firefox.
But here, at Teh forum, there's a slightly greater difference with IE, but a HUGE difference with Firefox! (Opera was somewhere in the middle). So something here is screwing with the relative font sizes.
In any case, as a test, for this post, I have set the size attribute to "undefined". Which should let Teh forum's default settings control things.
Before I create a separate Frontpage template just for Teh forum, let me hear from several of you, as to what you're seeing.
"Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that".
Don't be. For what I'm doing, 99% of the time, Frontpage works just fine.
Looks fine on here now you've made that change (IE9).
Out of curiosity, what's wrong with the Message box for composing replies? What do you gain by switching to an entirely different application, writing out your post, copying, switching back again, and pasting?
I could maybe understand if it was for something specialised, but you imply that it's for every post.