I just picked up an old M1730 to play around with that has the dual 8700 GPU card installed. (Card with two fans visible in the laptop through...
I powered up an old m5500i-r3 today with an Nvidia 7600go card and this is what the image is like.. [img] Am I correct in assuming that the...
It arrived and looks good, however I haven't had a chance to swap it in yet (still running the 980 MXM in it ATM).
I picked up an "non-working" Elitebook 8570w off of Ebay fairly cheap. When I got it, there was zero response from the laptop when plugged in...
Never mind. I figured it out. It just wanted the CMOS battery reset.
So my M15x R2 decided to just stop booting up. If I plug in the PS and hit the power button, the only thing that happens is that the power...
So.. I went ahead and cut some small overlays for the tops of the broken sockets on the laptop out of some copper shim material I had lying...
That is what I am thinking too.
So... I went ahead and bought the P870DM-G that Soulvengeance has had up in the For Sale section. I figure that I'll just box up the one with...
No, the pieces were gone before I ever owned it.
I just bought a P150EM that is working just fine however both of the tab sockets on the case which the battery lock into have been broken off so...
He sold that in the for sale sub-forum on Aug. 28th. http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/sold-p870dm-g.833966/
The guy in Norway from that link, sold his P870 last week. As to the lenses, The ones I have tried have a focal length of something like 3-4"...
Unfortunately there are literally dozens of pins smashed flat and I really can't see them clearly enough to work on them. I miss the old days...
Nevermind... I bought a new P870DM instead.
We don't have kids. And like I said, with the fact that it was failing to boot before the socket damage, I might straighten them but never know...
Yeah, I already saw all of those from Eurocom. Not really up for spending $500-$1300 to fix it though. More like $200-$300 for a used, working...
I'm in my 50's and I can barely see them. (That's why my wife was trying to help with the magnifying glass). While I might try to find some way...
"Good luck" is not in the cards for this laptop. I tried the memory swap.. Same result. So I pulled the CPU (again) and asked my wife to help...
That's good to know. Right now I am trying to run down a place locally that has the RAM in stock and is actually open to the public for in-store...
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