Posts by hustler

Well there were no drivers avail for Win7 specifically for the chipset, it shipped with XP, so I used the detected drivers. The machine ran fine if not moved on a desk even after heating up. My assumption was the HEAT caused something...

Just to update, I did end up buying another motherboard for roughly $150 off ebay. The motherboard is used in another Gateway model, so it was a plug and play. Just had to move the cpu chip over and re-assemble. But soon after,...

Hmm I'm not sure, we have different models, I have the NX560XL, so they may be different entirely. First find the manuals, that will tell you how to take apart the compartments to gain access to the memory, cpu, hard drive, wireless,...

So to update, I had no luck doing the reflow, basically the external monitor gets video with white vertical lines spaced out across the image, it boots a ways into the OS then it just reboots. But there is no video on the LCD. I tried...

There is actually a good article here with more science to it below. The re-flows shown on youtube have some serious flaws in the procedures. In one, the guy claims to be re-flowing the GPU, when in actuality he has the foil covering...

Looks like I am going to attempt a reflow, I acquired an IR thermometer and a heat gun from a friend so wish me luck.

Thanks I appreciate the ideas, i've never heard of reflowing GPU though. I'll have to look that up.

I might have the same issue, no video to either port, and when i monkeyed with the ram a few times it would randomly come to life, then all of a sudden go out.

So I got this laptop that was broken from someone. I got it home, was able to finally get a power adapter after the owner took the hard drive and power adapter. I'm fairly versed in basic troubleshooting, so I swap out the ram and the...