Posts by gezs

Yea I sent a request for the replacement caps yesterday. Now just waiting for him to respond. I searched all the various distributors trying to find caps that would work but noone has any 10x20mm ultra low esr caps in stock or if...

I dissassembled the laptop and found half of the capactitors have begun leaking. Clevo used KVG series caps. These have a high failure rate on motherboards. I'm going to try and locate some replacement caps and see if I can't bring...

Started a week ago the network jack stopped working. I reinstalled xp and now the network jack can't be found. Then it started randomly rebooting or locking up or shutting off. Then it started all 3 lock LEDs on and no video when...

Have you tried after the removing AC + battery to then remove ram and the bios battery wait 10 minutes, then plug in the ac adapter and attempt to boot?

Since I don't fly much I've never had this problem but here is a possible solution. First I presume each seat has a power socket to plug into and each one is limited to 70W. Well each one can be thought of as a battery. So how do...

At one point my laptop stopped booting up.. I was told to try the above which reset the bios and fixed my problem. No idea what caused the issue but it worked. Take the keyboard off to access the ram and bios battery. Remove both...

Just a note on cleaning the heatsink a bit easier. I removed the 4 small screws holding the metal cover leaving the 4 spring loaded screws alone. With the cover out of the way I took a small pipe cleaner and ran through the copper...

the section on removing the inverter shows how to open the lcd up. but its not needed. btw fixing the wobble is extremely easy. I was under the impression I had to take the lid apart but in reality it was just removing the 2 rubber...

thanks now that I know what to tighten I'll fix it tonight. I found the service manual that shows how to get to the screws.

The screen of the laptop has begun wobbling when open to normal viewing angle. When barely open or fully open it is stiff but at viewing angle it wobbles about 5 - 10 degrees. Are there any adjustments that I can make to tighten it...