Desperately Seeking an Inexpensive laptop that runs Windows 7

[Buzz]

I have a ~2004 Compaq Evo N800c that was running great until several months ago...., then all of a sudden, quite unexpectedly, the screen went dark. HDD works OK elsewhere, so thinking something in the GPU/screen loop has gone wonky. Sadly, too old for HDMI, but has a VGA port for ext monitor. The built in wifi "b" adapter was slow, and failed many years ago, so we'd been using a faster cardbus adapter most of the time. Not sure if it's close enough to do you any good, but it's maxed out w/ 2GB RAM, and has a massive 80GB PATA HDD. No clue how to troubleshoot the video issue to see how viable it might be again, but if you want a "possible" project, LMK.....
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