shanenin

So I don't end up paying microsoft a huge fine.

Thank you :-)

Saddam Hussein (I realize he was hung)

Is their any legal constaints that involve selling a windows XP disc without a COA? This would be useful for people who have a COA on their computer, but no disk to do reinstalls.

geek squad

I had my freind help me with the desoldering and soldering of the new power jack. In the process he broke off a very small chip. The laptop works great when plugged in. It does not want to charge the battery(it is not even trying to charge). I think that may have been what the chip was used for. I Gave a price of $145 for parts(I gave my friend $60) and labor to install the new power jack. Hopefully my customer will be understanding. Below is the picture of the chip. their is a chance the battery is bad, and the problem was preexisting. More then likely that chip that is no longer there serv

beer

Thanks everyone :-)

linus video you will need flash 8 or above to view this.

double click on the top, that should fix it edit added later// Bubba Bob was correct, not the top, but the grey area

let me know if you find some good info. I program with python a bit, but am curious about visual basic. I like the idea of making something useful that will run on windows. edit added later// python can be used to program for windows, but I thought maybe visual basic may be more suited for some tasks.

emachines are pretty east to replace. Have any of you guys tried to replace a motherboard on a gateway? What a mess. Gateway does not sell replacment motherboards, plus replacing them with a standard board is a huge pain. One of the worst parts is gateway does not use an i/o plate. They machine the case only to fit the original motherboard. The only way you can get a board to fit is to cut a big rectangle out in back. This is an ugly hack. With out being able to install the i/o plate that comes with the new board, it leaves it unsupported. If I ever try it again, I may hotglue the new i/o plat

I have never used mobile meter, but will give it a try. I usually use everest. None the less, I will definitely check the temps after finishing(assuming I can get the parts back together)

I thought it was an urban myth, but it seems to be true. I have done two of them myself. I have friend you runs a large shop in town, and he says almost always the mobo goes with the psu(with emachines). I wish I new why this seems to be common with emahicnes. I wonder if it is to do with the power supplys they use. Maybe they blow in a diffferent way then others.

Thanks guys for the links :-) It seems that you would use the tape in places where their is not good pressure holding the heatsink onto the die. Their are 4 spring loaded screws that seem to be giving good pressure. Do you guys have a opinion, in regards to regular compound doing a good job in this situation? edit added later// as stated above, I think this is more for easy manufacture. I think compound will work equally well

its central standard time where i'm at, your an hour early, just kidding, Thank you :-)

caveman

I am replacing a power jack(well at least trying) on a dell 600m laptop. This uses a pentium m proc. I thought it used a regular heating pad like desktops, so I scraped it off. I was going to reapply regular heatsink compound. It turns out is has a thin piece of conductive foil, which I have ruined. Do you think the foil is necessary? Do you think just applying regular heatsink compound will be sufficient?

shit (could not resist)

I have been this biostar board for all of my 478 builds. It works nice

it will be a few years before 64 bit is the norm. As far as I know, all OEM computers with vista will be 32bit. As to linux, you can run either 32 or 64 bit like windows.

Ebay is always a good place to go for harder to get parts(new and used). It is nice to be able to goto newegg and spend $45 for a new board and receive it in one to three days depending on the shipping you choose.

Have any of you guys noticed the selection of socket A mother boards is almost non existent. Newegg offers 5 of which 3 are out of stock. Tigerdirect does not have any. Zipzoomfly may or may not of had any(I forgot) . Of the boards I found, none of them have sata. Their are lots of of OEM computers with Athlon XPs. You would think they would carry a few more in stock. Just venting.

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