Strange Smells

Lol, I got this smell too for about a day or 2 when I first got my lappy. How long have you had yours?

Saw the topic, and thought my girlfriend was complaining again. LOL

Ahhhhh! the wonderfull smell of new Electronics...

Re: Strange Smells

Hmm could it be the result of enjoying the new lappy for days at a time and forgetting to take your bath? Or maybe the previous owner didnt take baths and had a skunk encounter with it or something..

LOL

Thats a good one...that is

But lets get a little serious - Is it a faint 'GLUE' like smell? like the smell of warm paint or molasses??

then its ok coz I still get a faintly sugary smell from my laptop...smells like new I cover my baby every night and clean her every morning.

but if it is a burnt rubber smell or a foul smell then you might wanna check it out...

Mine smelled like a can of paint for a week, so I couldn't tell ya...

-myrkat

I had this same exact sour-stink for a long time .. it's been about a month now, and I don't notice it as much now ... but I dunno if that means it's going away or that I'm just getting used to it. lol

lol SOLDIER suck it up you big baby ! We are talking about a Sager! The grand daddy of all laptops! Never speak of this sacrilege again!

Thermal pad?

I think Sager uses thermal pads between the CPU and the heatsink. Some of these pads are designed to "melt-in" in order to fill the small gaps on the CPU and heatsink surfaces. I think they are made from soft metal foil covered with paraffin wax.

My opinion is - these pads act more like heat insulators than conductors. I've replaced two such pads on different notebooks with high quality thermal compound (Arctic Silver 3). In both cases there was notable decrease in notebook "warmth". On one of them the fan went from "always full blow" regime to "off - middle throttle". The owner first thought that there is something wrong with the fan.

One of the first things when I receive my 5670 clone (should be this week) will be to check the CPU and probably change the pad to Arctic Silver.

The next thing will be installing the 802.11g mini-PCI card that I bought a week ago. Seems I will be the first one to dare such thing. The card is Buffalo WLI-MPCI-G54K:



It is a Broadcom reference design (Linksys uses the same radios).
I made the following deal - bought a set. WLA-G54 (bridge):

http://www.buffalotech.com/wireless/...ion/wlag54.php

plus WLI-CBG54:

http://www.buffalotech.com/wireless/.../wlicbg54a.php

The set cost about $130. I opened the WLA-G54 and took out the mini-PCI card. My girlfriend is currently using the PCMCIA with her notebook. As a bonus - after removing the mini-PCI from the bridge it still functions as a 10/100M 4-port cable LAN switch (although the alarm light blinks - poor thing lost its radio)!!!

They sell only the mini-PCI ... for $130!!! I actually ordered it, but canceled the order when I found that all AirStation 54g bridges and routers have this card inside. It even has all the markings on the metal shield (like the standalone product).

Sorry I got carried away ... off topic ... had to share with somebody. Currently I am out of "computer buddies".

Will post separately, with photos, about my 5670 experiences.

Regards,

Rado

Re: Thermal pad?

Wish i had seen that deal

cheapest i found was the router itself for 130 dollars i ended up paying around 200 bucks for both

Re: Re: Thermal pad?

Well, I am in Japan. Here the Buffalo products seem to be cheaper. My set is wireless bridge (WLA-G54) + PCMCIA card ... not router (WBR-G54) + PCMCIA which you seem to be talking about. The router set costs about $170 here. I bought the bridge because I need it only for the mini-PCI card. I thought it will be completely useless after I de-radio it. Luckily, I can use it as a switch now.

Regards,

Rado

What part of Japan Rado? My wife is from Yokahoma. We go back there once a year. I need to find a internet cafe while Im over there next time. I cant use their 56k(if very lucky) its way too slow. I run a gaming server company, and need about 2 hours a day with a high speed connection. Let me know if you know of any in Japan right now. Thanks sorry its a bit off topic here lol. Ryan

Wireless spots in Japan

Hi Ryan,

I live in Aichi prefecture. In a small city about 30 km south-east of Nagoya.
You can use wifinder:
http://www.wifinder.com/search.php

or Intel Hotspot finder:
http://support.intel.com/products/mo...ots/finder.htm

These two do not return so many spots. Maybe it is a better idea to ask your wife to search in internet in japanese.
Here are some sites I found:

http://homepage2.nifty.com/yu1o/wlan/

http://www.hotspot.ne.jp/

http://www.rbbtoday.com/hotspot/

http://www.freehotspot.jp/

http://www.freespot.net/

http://www.venture.or.jp/mobile/


hope this helps.

Regards,

Rado

Thanks man appreciate it. Ill have her look those sites over tommorow night. Yes not alot of close options on the top two sites. Thanks again. Ryan