About network cards failures...

[stj]

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carefull, most laptops dont use magjacks - they use a seperate transformer.
post a foto of each side of the board near the connector.

[stj]

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the transformer says "PULSE" on it and is marked U30 on the board.
page2 on the schematic.

[hikaruichijo]

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Thanks for the warning!! I have two boards here from old acer laptops that have the black rectangular transformer, thats why I thought the Compaq has the transformer on the jack....
Ok, here are the photos.
Well it seens to be a diferent laptop, mine is a PIII. It says N600c series pp2040. The squematic you've found looks like a pentiun 4.

I runaway Of P4's as far as I can .

[stj]

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is the network controller on a seperate board? i cant see one!
does the socket have a maker or part number on it?

[hikaruichijo]

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Well, I already noticed that, I thought that the nic may be integrated on the chipset but I don't know. It doesn't have another board apart the power board that I removed for the photos. It is a 13" laptop very small for the age from my point of view. What you see in the photos is what it has, apart from the power board, the wifi card and the ram

[stj]

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found this:

it says the network interface is optional on a mini-pci card.

[hikaruichijo]

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My god, no you are God, I never imagined that, it has an Intel 2200bg wifi on the pci slot so I thought the Lan nic was damaged I'm going to look if I can find that mini pci lan card somewhere.
I never saw a thin like this...

[stj]

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i have seen it before, i think it was old IBM's

[hikaruichijo]

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The experience makes a diference a lot of times, thanks withought your help I would be smashing my head with a wall to do nothing