{"id":197,"date":"2010-10-08T00:09:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T04:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/?p=197"},"modified":"2010-10-08T00:09:12","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T04:09:12","slug":"tablet-broke-in-the-middle-of-the-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/2010\/10\/08\/tablet-broke-in-the-middle-of-the-experiments\/","title":{"rendered":"Tablet broke in the middle of the experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During one of the first experiments I turned on the tablet and the screen came up looking broken. I attributed that to a bad connection somewhere, jiggled things around, rebooted and it worked fine afterwords.<\/p>\n<p>Then during another experiment the tablet failed to ever boot properly. I even opened it up using the participant&#8217;s screwdriver and looked at the insides, but found nothing. This was it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Tc1100-broken-booting-windows.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-198\" title=\"Tc1100 broken booting windows\" src=\"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Tc1100-broken-booting-windows-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Tc1100-broken-booting-windows-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Tc1100-broken-booting-windows.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems everything still works except something&#8217;s wrong with the display hardware, showing those rectangles everywhere. I took the whole thing apart (which was a challenge because it had special HP pentagon screws) and removed\/reattached all the ribbons many times, nothing helped.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it would come up ok, but only once or twice. I was obviously wrong though:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Tc1100-broken-running-windows.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  size-medium wp-image-199\" title=\"Tc1100 broken running windows\" src=\"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Tc1100-broken-running-windows-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Tc1100-broken-running-windows-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Tc1100-broken-running-windows.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That windows refuses to switch to higher than 640&#215;480 tells me the problem is probably in the video card, not the connection to the display. I really didn&#8217;t want to think this. It took much time and energy and a sizable investment to procure this device &#8211; I was not willing to duplicate all that.<\/p>\n<p>A solution needed to be found, and fast&#8230; see next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During one of the first experiments I turned on the tablet and the screen came up looking broken. I attributed that to a bad connection somewhere, jiggled things around, rebooted and it worked fine afterwords. Then during another experiment the tablet failed to ever boot properly. I even opened it up using the participant&#8217;s screwdriver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}