Posts by Piezo

It wasn't the screen cable. It was the mechanical trigger that turns the screen off when you close the laptop and that got pinched down. The laptop thought it was closed so as a result the top lights would work but the harddrive would...

Not sure if this helps but when i put my laptop back together I had the trigger for the screen pinched down so the laptop thought it was closed all the time and never booted up when i pressed the power button. It had the same symptoms.

Hey Stuman I ran Solidworks 2005 on my R4000 with a ati 200m. I had no problems with it except that it got a little slow with big assembles, but if you're talking about a hand full of parts without great detail then it should be...

Not sure if its support the CPU that you want, but its easy to take out the CPU on the R3000. You might want ask the question on the R3000forums.

Hi all, I'm running SW on my R4000 with a sempron 3200 and 512 ram. It runs fine on small assemblies but I modelled up a helixal gear box and the gear regeneration slowed it down. Mind you each gear had around 100-200 teeth and...

I had the notebook for over a year now so no warrantee. I bought an broken drive on ebay for 10 bux, so i'm going to replace the rails with that drive. Hopefully everything goes smoothly.

Try here www.zv6000forums.com. There's tons of threads on upgrading cpu for the R4000.

I was wondering if you have a Compaq Presario 2100, can take a picture of the DVD drive full open. I bent my metal guides on my R4000 drive and was wonder if I can buy a 2100 dvd and swap the metal rails out. Some close up views...

Hi All, I did the most stupidest thing last night. I was backing up an external harddrive to DVDs when I just finished burning one and the dvd popped out. I was doing this while watching TV on the coffee table. So I stepped over...