this laptop...

there's a guy in town who will identify things. he may even have a heat gun. i think i want to go down this route:

1) figure out where the break is.
2) see if i can reflow it.

i could always even be wrong.

see, i'm not understanding the led in the power jack. is the led supposed to tell you the circuit is complete, or that the jack is receiving power? because the circuit completion seems superfluous. what i want to know is if the jack is broken. i would want the led to tell me the jack works, and the dead led to mean the jack is busted.

but, i might be being clinically rational at my own peril. again. reality isn't a fucking logic gate, j.

but the existence of a current, after all, doesn't necessarily mean the jack isn't broken. it's more than a relay. i may have tricked myself.

so, why don't i bring the thing in and see if i can get him to test it better. i won't pay him $40 for a jack, but i'll at least buy it from him. and, if it's not the jack, maybe we can figure out where the break is and see if we can heat gun it. i might pay him $40 for that if it works. or, if he doesn't have a heat gun, maybe i can hit it with a hair dryer.

if not, maybe i can sell him the board and the parts i don't want. what i'll have left is 4 gb of ram that i'm going to want to convert into 2 gb of ram, and maybe a square monitor if he's willing.

i'm done the video editing for court. i'm going to just take the 90s laptop. so, the last thing i need to do is compile documents.