Re: Advice needed regarding a broken charging circuit on a lappy



Thank you so much.

That is a really good video in this case I wouldn't be able to solder directly as the mobo is very congested (there are 3 other SMD components within 2 mm of the varying sides of the diode and a few caps in the area) and I wouldnt trust myself

The laptop is working at the moment, I simply shorted the diode and it appears to function without issue.

I do have another board that needs repairing and I think that video will assist me in the...

Re: Advice needed regarding a broken charging circuit on a lappy

Just shorted it with a staple and it now runs off DC

I will replace the Diode before using a battery

Any thoughts on the danger this carrys?

Re: HP/Compaq nx9420 very slow - not OS dependent

This sounds like a thermal management problem.

If modern CPUs overheat they throttle to stupid levels (200ish mhz, possibly less).

Is your fan running reliably?
How much/old is your thermal paste?

Re: laptop video card

MXM is compatible-ish it a real pain to find a card that will work.

I encountered a laptop with bad graphics before so I:
[LIST=1][*]Removed the mobo [*]Took off all plastics/components I could from the board[*]Preheated my oven to 195 C[*]Rolled up 4 aluminium foil balls[*]Put the balls on a tray [*]Placed the mobo on the balls [*]Put the tray/mobo in the oven [*]After 6 mins I turned the oven off and left it open to cool [/LIST]

I hooked in the power and it worked, one of the USB ports was a little funky (it went to usb 1.1...

Hi Guys,

A friend of mine recently asked me to look at her laptop: its battery charging light constantly flickers whenever the laptop was plugged in to DC and I could not boot the machine.

I got obtained a charged battery and was able to use it to boot the laptop, I could still not use the DC in to charge or run the lappy without the battery inserted.

I have opened the laptop up and tested some of the power distribution circuitry and discovered that one of the diodes was not responding the a continuity test.

As this is affecting charging...

Re: Nintendo DS (not DSi) not supporting WPA

When the DS was designed WEP was viewed as being acceptable so Nintendo designed the hardware to support only this mode of WiFI Security.

The Ds + Ds Lite have only 4MB of RAM , a 67 MHz ARM9 and 33 MHz ARM7; this is enough capability to process the Simple RC4 Encryption of the WEP standard.

This Spec does not have enough working area or processing power to allow use of WPA (and play games as intended) which is RC4 + TKIP based nor does it allow use of the AES based WPA2.

An oversight on the part...

Re: linux router distros

Heya,

Have you tried Smoothwall?
It is a Linux based firewall with a good web interface and an easy to follow text-mode setup.

I had one deployed in on a 2.0Ghz Northwood Celeron w/ 256Mb of ram for over 4 years, it always provided excellent performance and was very reliable.

You can get it free from [url]http://www.smoothwall.org/[/url]

I hope this helps Re: linux router distros<br /> <br ...ll with a good