ASUS Upgrade Manuals

[Underpantman]

There seem to be a lot of requests for these very useful guides, thus I thourght it would be a good idea to start a thread !
If you have a link or copy of a PDF Upgrade manual for an ASUS notebook line please post the link here or email the pdf to me and I'll get it hosted.
Thanks in advance for your help.

ASUS M6N series Manual
http://www.encke.net/encke/modules.php?op=modload&name=UpDownload&file=index&req=getit&lid=11

[TaylorSugar]

underpantman once I get my Asus M6Ne am I allowed to post my review of it? or do I have to ask first.. I just thought I would post some new pics and what I thought?

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[Underpantman]

I don't see any problem with posting, I say the more the better, but if you give the guys here an email before hand then they can link it up to the main page etc which will get you more kudos.
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[Tuttle]

Asus A2H Upgrade Manual, Chapter 4 -- covers CPU, memory, MiniPCI and hard drive work on A2 models.
http://ec.synnex.com/sb/docs/A2H-Chapter%2004-v1.1.pdf

[mopac183]

Folks:

In addition to references posted by Underpantman and Tuttle, there are two others that might be useful:

1. http://www.legitreviews.com/reviews/whitebox1/ check out the 2nd article in the series too
2. http://www.techbuilder.org/article.htm?ArticleID=48122 FIC laptop only!

Incidentally, I just finished buying the parts for my first laptop. Before I continue, I would like to qualify the information below by stating that I have never built a laptop and so you must check out other resources to be sure that my information is correct. Indeed, I am not absolutely sure that all the components will make a working computer. Case in point is the tripp lite surge suppressor, which has a three hole connector; the M6000N manual (online, page 28) states that the power brick and AC cable may have either a two or three hole plug configuration.

$869.00 Asus M6Ne (and free bag) www.gentechpc.com
$215.00 Intel Pentium M 715 www.gentechpc.com
$106.99 512MB Crucial CT369583 (use configurator)
www.crucial.com
$6.42 - crucial: shipping free, but tax
$99.50 Hitachi Travelstar 5K80- 2.5", 5400rpm, 40gb
www.insight.com
$16.99 Tripp Lite Protect It! TRAVELER C6
www.insight.com
$19.66 - insight: shipping AND tax
$79.00 Toshiba SD-R2512 www.newegg.com
$31.93 Intel Pro/Wireless 2200 WM3B2200BGMWWB
www.buy.com

$1,444.49 Total


Please note that I am not endorsing any of the resellers. In fact, except for Insight and Crucial, I have never purchased anything from them. However, I would note that I got some very good assembly tips from folks at www.gentechpc.com.

For reseller “reliability” information, I used the following sites:
www.resellerratings.com
www.bizrate.com
www.bbb.org

For price comparison tools, I used the following sites:
www.pricegrabber.com
www.streetprices.com
www.pricewatch.com

Cheers,

mopac183

[Underpantman]

Here is the link for the M5N Manual

http://www.asisupport.com/ftproot/Files/Notebooks/M5N/M5N%20Assembly%20Guide/M5-Chapter04-v1.1.pdf

[Underpantman]

Here is the S1N Manual

http://www.asisupport.com/ftproot/Files/Notebooks/S1N/Assembly%20Guide/S1N-Chap3-ID1-V1.0.pdf

and the M3N
http://www.asisupport.com/ftproot/Files/Notebooks/M3N/M3N%20Disassembly%20Guide/M3N-Chapter%2003-v1.1.pdf

Enjoy..and happy modding !
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[Underpantman]

Here's the link for the Z9/L4 series manual
http://ec.synnex.com/sb/docs/Z9%20-%20L4R%20Training.pdf
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[ATILSA]

I don't understand the crazy policies from ASUS.
I assembled an A2H (A2500H) notebook, added a P4 2.4 processor, 1Gb memrory and a 60Gb Hd. Buwasn't easy, I had to search (found on this forum) for a manual that explains how to open the damn thing, because Asus doesn't place any assembly documentation on these machines.

I contacted ASUS, because I have a contract to sell 20 of this machines to a customes, but using P4 2.8, It toke thm just a couple days to answer my request, but only to say "Sorry, it's a internal service guide, we can not provide it to end user, sorry."

That's not very wise. Hoc can they want to sell products to be assembled by the re-sellers, if they doesn't provide enough information?

I'm glad I tested this model befor buying the 20 units. In just 1 week of constant use, the paint on the keyboard cover has lost part of the silver paint (on a black molded plastic, another dumb design item), it's real hard to open the case to re-paint the plastic frame, specially if there is no info about it. So again, I'm hapy of testinf this piece of junk. Now at least know what NOT to buy.

I could say the notebook is just an average, not good, but also not bad. The suport is what stinks. They should made available to integrators the full manual, and not only chapter 4, as Synnex does.

I understand why nobody wants to represent Asus in this country. I can imagine they must be real hard maintain a healthy relationship with their partners.

[orion_joel]

Hi

I have worked on coutnless different ASUS models mainly just for memory upgrades but also for building barebones units and never found much trouble in working them out. Though i havent used them i managed to acquire some video manuals on CD that show step by step the assembly and dismantling of some older models and there isnt that much to it really.

The biggest challenge comes if you havent had to open one up before.