Posts by ChadZ

Spartan, that's exactly how my motherboard looked after having the same problem as your computer. I was able to scrape off a lot of the burn marks and the board seemed fine underneath. I also unsoldered the power adapter from the board...

The only thing that comes to mind that might still be keeping your laptop together are perhaps the screw holes at the sides of the serial port and some other port. I'm talking about the things screw into when you plug in the adapter to...

Interesting. Maybe not using an external cooling device was my problem. My computer would also get very hot and I remember that when playing games if I did not turn the fan all the way up I'd get graphics errors and eventually the BSOD...

I own a Sager NP5760-V and its motherboard just broke on me for the second time. This caused me to look into things a little (before I paid no attention). I read that Sager's motherboards are made by Clevo in Taiwan and that Clevo's...

That's odd. Altho, I actually was able to get the case off and determined my problem to be irreparable: My power and ground lines have become shorted together as the author of this thread suspected for this computer and there is no...

I finished taking apart my laptop after finding that there were in fact screws underneath the keyboard. I also found the culprit - the DC power adapter. When I pealed back the electrical tape covering the board underneath the DC...

Spartan: I read your post in the tech support section and am having the EXACT same trouble as you are, and am also having the same trouble taking the notebook apart. Were there any screws underneath the keyboard that need to be...

Spartan: It's really funny that I just read your threat because I literally just had the EXACT same problem - all the same symptoms and I too need it for school! I've been told it is very likely that the problem is easily fixable on...

Hey Guys, I have a NP5760-V whose power adapter stopped charging the battery. I've determined that it is not the power adapter, but the motherboard. My computer is now out of warranty (I bought it from discountlaptops and the company...