Another delicious how-to

[gentle_wolfox]

Who needs Live journal breaks when you have Adobe Acrobat? The link below leads to a 700 some-odd Kb PDF with all that you need to know to restore an overheating, auto-shut-downing Sony PCG-6xx series notebook PC. I have fixed a couple of these in the past, but never got around to documenting it until now. I do not know why, but people buy these

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[xaviusarchangel]

I had to replace the defunct heatsink fan on my ThinkPad A22M when I bought it (used) in November. While the replacement fan cost me $80, a certain wolfskunk's detective work on the Internet provided me with the complete technical manual for my perticular laptop which enabled me to safely and knowingly replace the heatsink fan with the littlelest of fuss. My lappy works quite well to this day and was very worth the $580 investment.

It may be only 1 GHz with 256 MB of RAM and a 40 GB hard disk drive, but it works quite well for what I use it for. I wouldn't mind something a little bit more powerful though for when I doodle with my 3D art at college this upcoming semester. If only I could upgrade the video card. 8MB is a horrible amount of video memory... =/

A little off-topic from your entry, yes, but I felt like sharing.

[gentle_wolfox]

Oh not at all, my mind wanders a bit too so I can understand. A curse of genius perhaps? Hunting down the parts is the worst at times. Luckily, Thinkpads are not uncommon and there are plenty out there on shelves that no longer work, but still have good parts scavenging value. I have several models of ThinkBRICKS on my storage shelves for such an emergency. When the last one dies in the department, i will surplus them out. I swapped the fans in a Compaq for a professor I work with, with only a few minutes of hunting online and having it drop shipped to my office. Sony parts? Rare and far between. Unless you are a certified Sony service center, you are NOT going to lay hands on Vaio parts...not legally anyway. And do not get me riled up on their non-corporate technical support and services

[gentle_wolfox]

Want AMD

[jonesybunny]

I wonder if you could come up with service manuals for even my Compaq Portable III? Or heck, even find a expansion box for it? :)

[gentle_wolfox]

I have one of those orange-red plasma screen Compaq portables on a shelf at work. Unfortunately, no manuals, no peripheral boxes, nothing. The battery is completely flat on it, and it has a power supply problem too - which is why it landed in my shop untold years before I started work there. Unfortunately, it was bought with funds from my department,and the University still has it on the books at full value - there is no easy way for me to just take it and then pack it in a box and ship it off to say, you for a spare parts machine. That's one of the things I dislike at the place I work at - so much goes to waste especially after being processed legally and by the book. The University says "IT'S MINE" all the way up to the moment it is crushed/destroyed or so horribly crippled before it goes to auction.

[jonesybunny]

That's okay, it's worthless to me without an expansion box.