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Disassemble an 8100?

post #1 of 14
4/6/05 at 3:24pm
Thread Starter 
Any clues, advice or links to documentation on how to disassemble an acer 8100 laptop?

I've had mine for a while now and the urge to look around inside is starting to get to me.

thx
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post #2 of 14
4/6/05 at 3:25pm
The urge to disassemble mine has been squashed by my fear of invalidating my 3 year warranty I've been dying to try to modify the cooling system to make this thing run cooler.
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post #3 of 14
4/6/05 at 9:10pm
I want to take mine apart to. But I know I am going to do it soon if I do I will take pictures.
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post #4 of 14
4/6/05 at 11:35pm
Take pictures. I want to see the x700.
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post #5 of 14
4/8/05 at 12:18am
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Originally Posted by JFvergara
Take pictures. I want to see the x700.

if I had a manual I would... the minute I find a manual I would take it apart.
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post #6 of 14
4/8/05 at 3:03pm
Somebody had a go and took pictures - see this thread in 'Notebook General'
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post #7 of 14
4/8/05 at 5:50pm
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Originally Posted by padlon
Somebody had a go and took pictures - see this thread in 'Notebook General'
From the pictures:

- we can clearly see Samsung chips that are used for video card memory. These are 300 MHz (3.3 ns) GDDR chips http://www.samsung.com/Products/Semi...ily_cd=GME0203

- also, could see this http://www.uli.com.tw/eng/products/p....php?pserno=40 on some of the photos. It's a PCI-E to Serial/Parallel ATA bridge. So SATA capability is there, untapped

- partially hidden TSB43 chip is Texas Instruments IEEE 1394 (Firewire).

Trying to identify other chips just to see what is there.

Edit:

- I can see SC451ITS chip http://www.semtech.com/products/prod...?ProductID=884 Might be interesting to have customized support in power-controlling/monitoring utilities
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post #8 of 14
4/8/05 at 6:19pm
So if the SATA capability is there...is there some way to utilize the technology in the laptop by installing new hardware? Would the laptop accept a SATA hard drive?

Sorry if the answer (of no) is obvious, I'm fairly new to this, haha.
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post #9 of 14
4/8/05 at 6:28pm
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Originally Posted by airscottie
So if the SATA capability is there...is there some way to utilize the technology in the laptop by installing new hardware? Would the laptop accept a SATA hard drive?

Sorry if the answer (of no) is obvious, I'm fairly new to this, haha.
No idea, really. Probably not. But Acer can theoretically quickly release a new model that uses SATA without changing design much, just a different connector for drive or some such. Of course, BIOS and drivers will have to change.
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post #10 of 14
4/8/05 at 6:57pm
To be more precise, it use this memory http://www.samsung.com/Products/Semi...K4D55323QF.htm
K4D55323QF-GC33
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post #11 of 14
4/8/05 at 7:40pm
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Originally Posted by Grahf
To be more precise, it use this memory http://www.samsung.com/Products/Semi...K4D55323QF.htm
K4D55323QF-GC33
Thanks, Graph. That's precisely the one. I could not figure letter Q, you have sharper eyes (or should I use , lol)
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post #12 of 14
4/11/05 at 12:19pm
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Ouch. After looking at the disassembly pictures, I think my zeal to look inside has cooled quite a bit. It also explains the trackpad heating. The cpu, io chipset, gpu and wifi card all reside under the trackpad with nothing more than a copper heat "pipe" to wick the heat away.
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post #13 of 14
4/11/05 at 12:35pm
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Originally Posted by katorga
Ouch. After looking at the disassembly pictures, I think my zeal to look inside has cooled quite a bit. It also explains the trackpad heating. The cpu, io chipset, gpu and wifi card all reside under the trackpad with nothing more than a copper heat "pipe" to wick the heat away.
By the way, it seems to me that such a construction (everything on a single heatpipe) makes sure that chip on the end of the pipe will always get hotter or at least as hot as chip in the middle of the pipe. Having two heatpipes might make laptop heavier but will improve cooling significantly.
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post #14 of 14
4/11/05 at 4:14pm
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the end of the pipe will always get hotter or at least as hot as chip in the middle of the pipe.
My guess is that heat from chips in the middle will flow BOTH directions, and at a minimum, all chips will share the temp of the hottest chip. That said, based on the pictures, there are not enough intake vents on the bottom of the chassis.

The again, my 8104 works just fine as is under some heavy heavy workloads over long periods of time. So I guess the design works.
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