Tag Archives: fault

Compaq CQ60 Display Issues – The Unexpected Part 3

I recently had an unexpected part 3 to this tale the other day, when the display went. Again. But this time, different symptoms. This time, the backlight went. Oh sh*t, replacing LCD panels isn’t exactly cheap, and since the backlight diffusers and CCFL’s are fused to the back of the LCD panel itself, there was […]

Bug in Magento 1.6.1.0/1.6.2.0 affecting development sites using base_url

I installed a copy of Magento 1.6.1.0 on a dev site I setup to do some testing with Varnish with (more on that later). However, in the requirement to be able to get to Magento using 2 different URL’s, I stumbled across this quite annoying bug. a:5:{i:0;s:67:”Illegal scheme supplied, only alphanumeric characters are permitted”;i:1;s:729:”#0 /home/dan/workspace/magento1610/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Store.php(712): […]

Compaq CQ60 Display Woes – Part 2

So in my previous post relating to this, I’d sent the machine back twice to HP to be repaired. The first visit gained a new motherboard and CPU. The second visit gained a new LCD assembly. But still the fault persisted. It sort of worked alright-ish for around a week or so, but then gave […]

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