View Full Version : current state of my laptop
Mr. Grapes
31-12-10, 15:51
So due to the festive season annual migration f family to our place, the office takes its usual role of jun... er storage room meaning my lappy is the only servicable pc in the house. so of course it breaks...
the power jack broke so it won't charge. it's been on the way out for a while but i haven't repaired it yet as it involves TOTAL stripdown...
http://db.tt/C7j169p
That's going to be tricky with one of those "grainy" laptops. Makes it hard to see what you are doing.
Mr. Grapes
31-12-10, 16:13
errr yeah... thats the awful nature of the san fran camera :(
unfortunately using my decent cam and pc transfer is off the cards... but at least i can take a bad pic, upload to dropbox and post straight on the forum ;)
Added after 3 minutes:
thumbnail view is much better ;)
good review, i like the motherborad :) looks nice and clean i just compared that motherborad to some old foxcon board i got, all ill say is wow lol xD
good review, i like the motherborad :) looks nice and clean i just compared that motherborad to some old foxcon board i got, all ill say is wow lol xD
Erm, what have you been drinking? Is it not a bit early yet?
how????????????? im sure i posted that on the thread about the new foxcon broad.
Not in this particular Quantum Universe.
oh well ill guess ill have to move that comment lol xD
Mr. Grapes
01-01-11, 02:46
Maybe a forum bug?
Lorem-Ipsum
01-01-11, 02:50
Maybe a forum bug?
Hasn't happened to anyone else that I know of....... and this is mikeyuk3 (http://forums.aria.co.uk/member.php?u=19945) we're talking about XD
You had to strip you whole laptop down to get to the power plug?
Also, isn't that the hardest way to get into a laptop, I've always gone in through the bottom.
I've always gone in through the bottom.
Oh yes? :surprised:
Mr. Grapes
01-01-11, 03:17
Hahahaha! @smifis.
Anyway, the power socket is on the mainboard and soldered right through and to get it out means everything has to come out
Hasn't happened to anyone else that I know of....... and this is mikeyuk3 (http://forums.aria.co.uk/member.php?u=19945) we're talking about XD
oh thanks xD :P
and back on track have you made any more progress with the laptop.
Mr. Grapes
01-01-11, 12:10
No, since it was NYE last night and my head is still pretty broken. No handling of soldering irons for me today.
lol are you sure you dont want to try xD let me guess if you get hold of a solerding iron your try to solder a cat!
You had to strip you whole laptop down to get to the power plug?
Also, isn't that the hardest way to get into a laptop, I've always gone in through the bottom.
Hahahaha! @smifis.
Anyway, the power socket is on the mainboard and soldered right through and to get it out means everything has to come out
That was a hilarious comment - but it explains a lot ;) :lol: :lol:
But also, having to strip down the entire laptop to get to a power socket to resolder it is quite common. I've found Acer ones are particularly annoying for positioning them like that!
But also, having to strip down the entire laptop to get to a power socket to resolder it is quite common. I've found Acer ones are particularly annoying for positioning them like that!
I too have a loptop that needs taking apart every now and then, its a Fujitsu Siemens). The cpu fan / cooling ducts gets clogged with dust and the laptop then gets rather warm and keeps shutting down. Then its just a case of removing the fan assembly and cleaning it.
This is done by removing the keyboard etc and going in from the top (no bottom entry for me :eek:).
lol are you sure you dont want to try xD let me guess if you get hold of a solerding iron your try to solder a cat!
It's true mikey, you are a bit dopey :P
I've never worked on an Acer laptop so thanks for hte heads up. On on a few ASUS laptops, it was pretty standard. webbooks (heads a bit fuzzy) are a breeze
Yeah - some Acer ones can be a pig to get to.. Although I think the most annoying ones to work on that i've come across have been certain Vaio laptops. I replaced a hard drive in one a while ago, and it needed pretty much the entire top half removing to get to it!! :lol:
Mr. Grapes
02-01-11, 00:58
The operation is complete!
SHE RIDES!
the fuzzy head cleared and i finished the job off, but now it won't recognise the adapter as a proper dell one. it'll power on, but won't charge... :(
probably damaged the psu ID chip when the the socket broke...
Didn't think there was some sort of id chip in the psu?
If the battery has been flat for a while, it will take some time before it recognises it and start charging.
Mr. Grapes
02-01-11, 20:08
no only a few days.
i have discovered that Dell put ID chips in so that the laptop can determine if the PSU is correct.
they have a 3 pin conncection to the lappy, + - and a data line.
the laptop gives me a warning that the PSU cannot be identified and so won't charge the battery.
here's info about the id chip: a couple of posts down
http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/t/19250464.aspx?PageIndex=2
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