Hey guys,
I currently own an Emachines m6810 laptop that i purchased about two years ago. During that time I have experienced the typical problems associated with this laptop (cracked hinges, etc).
However, now I'm experiencing something new - some sort of weird problem which causes the laptop to completely hang, as if the system itself is losing power, but the LCD isn't (it stays lit up, but all sorts of weird lines appear around it). After spending a week or so diagnosing the problem, it now seems that, basically, the video/mobo is shot to hell (judging by similar problems that I have had on desktop machines).
Well anyhoo, soon thereafter I brought it in to Best Buy, gave them a rundown of the problem, yada-yada, and asked them to have it serviced under the three-year warranty. I told them that it was almost certainly a video/motherboard problem, which they seemed to write down, then told me that they'd get back to me after they have had a chance to look at it. Three days later they called and said that, in all likelyhood, it's a problem with the power connector itself (when they tested it it was apparently hanging when they plugged the ac adapter into the machine, which I didn't really know about), or a problem with (as I said) the mobo. They said that they were sending it out for service, and that it'd get back in 3-6 weeks. Sort of frustrating, but if they could fix the problem then hey, I'm cool with it.
Fast forward over a month later. I get a call from their service department telling me that the laptop is done, so I immediately rush over to BB to pick it up. When I got there, they proceeded to tell me that it was a BAD BATTERY that was causing the problem. My buddy (who I showed the problem to initially) and I were just standing there like "what the f***??", but I said "um... okay... that's weird, but I GUESS it's possible", signed the paperwork, and headed out. I then brought it home, put it through it's paces, and low and behold, I'm still having the EXACT same problem. It took them SIX WEEKS to ATTEMPT to diagnose the problem, change a battery, and they STILL got it wrong.
At this point I'm pretty much just saying "screw it, I'm through dealing with the Geek Squad". And thus, I don't care if I void the warranty anymore, I'm ready to service the laptop myself.
So yeah, where I'm headed is this: I can get a pretty good deal for the chassis+motherboard for a Gateway 7510gx. Now, if I were to go this route and buy this setup, would I be able to swap the keyboard, monitor, ram, cpu, and disk/cdrom drives from the m6810 into the gateway? To my knowledge they are based on the same arima platform, so theoretically everything should fit in the right place, but are there any differences between stuff like, say, the monitor connectors, that I should know about? Would the newer board work with the CPU, fans, and ram from the older machine? Any information/advice/suggestions would be appreciated, cause I can't really afford to be without this laptop for six more weeks.
Thanks,
Will
I currently own an Emachines m6810 laptop that i purchased about two years ago. During that time I have experienced the typical problems associated with this laptop (cracked hinges, etc).
However, now I'm experiencing something new - some sort of weird problem which causes the laptop to completely hang, as if the system itself is losing power, but the LCD isn't (it stays lit up, but all sorts of weird lines appear around it). After spending a week or so diagnosing the problem, it now seems that, basically, the video/mobo is shot to hell (judging by similar problems that I have had on desktop machines).
Well anyhoo, soon thereafter I brought it in to Best Buy, gave them a rundown of the problem, yada-yada, and asked them to have it serviced under the three-year warranty. I told them that it was almost certainly a video/motherboard problem, which they seemed to write down, then told me that they'd get back to me after they have had a chance to look at it. Three days later they called and said that, in all likelyhood, it's a problem with the power connector itself (when they tested it it was apparently hanging when they plugged the ac adapter into the machine, which I didn't really know about), or a problem with (as I said) the mobo. They said that they were sending it out for service, and that it'd get back in 3-6 weeks. Sort of frustrating, but if they could fix the problem then hey, I'm cool with it.
Fast forward over a month later. I get a call from their service department telling me that the laptop is done, so I immediately rush over to BB to pick it up. When I got there, they proceeded to tell me that it was a BAD BATTERY that was causing the problem. My buddy (who I showed the problem to initially) and I were just standing there like "what the f***??", but I said "um... okay... that's weird, but I GUESS it's possible", signed the paperwork, and headed out. I then brought it home, put it through it's paces, and low and behold, I'm still having the EXACT same problem. It took them SIX WEEKS to ATTEMPT to diagnose the problem, change a battery, and they STILL got it wrong.
At this point I'm pretty much just saying "screw it, I'm through dealing with the Geek Squad". And thus, I don't care if I void the warranty anymore, I'm ready to service the laptop myself.
So yeah, where I'm headed is this: I can get a pretty good deal for the chassis+motherboard for a Gateway 7510gx. Now, if I were to go this route and buy this setup, would I be able to swap the keyboard, monitor, ram, cpu, and disk/cdrom drives from the m6810 into the gateway? To my knowledge they are based on the same arima platform, so theoretically everything should fit in the right place, but are there any differences between stuff like, say, the monitor connectors, that I should know about? Would the newer board work with the CPU, fans, and ram from the older machine? Any information/advice/suggestions would be appreciated, cause I can't really afford to be without this laptop for six more weeks.
Thanks,
Will
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