| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
hugo929
Joined: 27 Oct 2006
Posts: 6163
Location: China
|
 Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 3:17 am Post subject: My notebook is broken |
 |
|
My notebook is suddenly broken 
I have sent it for repair. (will cost me about $60)
So in the next few days, I might not be able to answer PM or mail on time.
I could not be able to send funds either.
Sorry guys
-hugo
_________________
My vintage CPU collection:www.cpumuseum.com
Chinese Forum: http://www.cpumuseum.com/forum |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Marcin
Joined: 02 Jan 2005
Posts: 8519
Location: Poland
|
| Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 3:26 am Post subject: |
|
|
Sorry to hear that. Let me guess your notebook need reballing on VGA/chipset ?
_________________
Visit ABC CPU - Virtual CPU Museum. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
D.8080
Joined: 03 Apr 2006
Posts: 1474
Location: Italy
|
| Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 4:19 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Marcin wrote: | | Sorry to hear that. Let me guess your notebook need reballing on VGA/chipset ? |
Hugo I can understand you, alas.
I have to call to have my notebook repaired too, I have red/blue shadows when opening it.
And I guess I need to have something resoldered.
Notebooks are tricky... |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Marcin
Joined: 02 Jan 2005
Posts: 8519
Location: Poland
|
| Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 7:04 am Post subject: |
|
|
Thanks to new standards of lead-free connections between hot parts like GPU or chipset There is one great rule when buying new notebook - no AMD CPU + nVIDIA VGA because just after warranty (or maybe before) you will have to send it to repair.
_________________
Visit ABC CPU - Virtual CPU Museum. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
thomsonicus
Joined: 11 Dec 2007
Posts: 226
Location: Poland
|
| Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 7:25 am Post subject: |
|
|
My laptop died recently as well. A MXM-connection GF6800 needs to be replaced... again. Guess I'll never buy a Fujitsu-Siemens again.
_________________
Power without the price. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
picur10
Joined: 22 May 2006
Posts: 1229
Location: Budapest, Hungary
|
| Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 7:37 am Post subject: |
|
|
The hdd of my nettop also died a few days ago. I forgot to backup the pictures since July. 
My younger daughter is 11 months old and I lost almost the all pictures about her.  I'm an idiot!  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
D.8080
Joined: 03 Apr 2006
Posts: 1474
Location: Italy
|
| Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 7:37 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Marcin wrote: | | Thanks to new standards of lead-free connections between hot parts like GPU or chipset There is one great rule when buying new notebook - no AMD CPU + nVIDIA VGA because just after warranty (or maybe before) you will have to send it to repair. |
Called assistance to verify the status of my problem, the guy didn't say anything aknowledging the issue as recurrent.
In fact it is 95% a desoldered component making a bad contact.
Fortunately it's not chipset or video card. I have a c2d + ati.
I have to save all data and make images, sucks.... |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Marcin
Joined: 02 Jan 2005
Posts: 8519
Location: Poland
|
| Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 8:28 am Post subject: |
|
|
Yes that is very important to make backup before you send notebook to service. They do not response for lost data on HDDs.
| thomsonicus wrote: | | My laptop died recently as well. A MXM-connection GF6800 needs to be replaced... again. Guess I'll never buy a Fujitsu-Siemens again. |
HP, Asus and Toshiba have not a less of these problems. Please read about HP DV9000. Tons of these models are returned back and HP officialy said sorry to customers and gave additional 1 or 2 years to warranty (3 years in total). M$ XBOX360 Falcon is the same history. All done for what ? For a earth ?
_________________
Visit ABC CPU - Virtual CPU Museum. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
doccybrown
Joined: 03 Oct 2005
Posts: 1736
Location: Germany
|
| Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 1:26 pm Post subject: |
|
|
prank mode on
It is right that the new RoHS-conform silver solder has less
good characterics when it comes to thermal stressing.
But it looks like a bit of home made problems of the
manufacturers who combine silence with hot running hardware,
e.g. notebooks with multicores and hi-end graphics (which is a perversity imwo).
So wait until manufactures have solved this OR
buy yourself a cool running system, be happy about
the silence and longevity, save some money when buying
non hi-end hardware and by low power consumption, save CO2 and
stop the greedyness for computing power. It is in fact useless
for most applications and being idle in the most of the time.
I`m happy I can drink less lead contaminated water now.
But bad feeling about the big extra hill of electronic waste
of computers and xboxes that have died early. Please don`t buy
stupid half-baked hardware!!!
prank mode off 
_________________
Ordem e Progresso |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
thomsonicus
Joined: 11 Dec 2007
Posts: 226
Location: Poland
|
| Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 1:52 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Marcin wrote: | | HP, Asus and Toshiba have not a less of these problems |
True, the Dell Studio 1535 is probably the worst piece of crap that I've disassebled in years. Even those cheapass supermarket laptops seemed to be more reasonably designed and built than that piece of crap Dell.
Some time ago I really thought that those big players (HP/Compaq, Dell, Toshiba) really did care about the end product, but I guess the income is the most important thing nowadays. Shame on them.
_________________
Power without the price. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
hugo929
Joined: 27 Oct 2006
Posts: 6163
Location: China
|
| Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 3:33 am Post subject: |
|
|
now my notebook recovers again
they provide really quick service.
to Marcin: yes, the nVidia GPU might be bad.
I am not sure if the GPU is bad or if the connection is bad.
_________________
My vintage CPU collection:www.cpumuseum.com
Chinese Forum: http://www.cpumuseum.com/forum |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
johnorun
Joined: 04 Apr 2008
Posts: 3364
Location: Chicago, IL- US
|
| Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 12:23 am Post subject: |
|
|
| picur10 wrote: | The hdd of my nettop also died a few days ago. I forgot to backup the pictures since July.
My younger daughter is 11 months old and I lost almost the all pictures about her. I'm an idiot! |
Don't throw the "dead" hard drive away.
I rescued some files from a crashed drive by attaching it as a Slave drive to my main PC and using Windows Explorer to copy them to the master drive.
Try looking at yours and see if you can retrieve anything.
_________________
My collection list (growing) http://johnorun.x86-guide.com/en/collection.html |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
picur10
Joined: 22 May 2006
Posts: 1229
Location: Budapest, Hungary
|
| Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 2:59 am Post subject: |
|
|
I did it many times but unfortunately it's mechanical error now.
I'll go to a data recovery firm. I found one where the investigation is free I have to pay for recover.
The hdd has a wrong noise and someone said it's almost sure this is the head or heads' preamplifier so cannot get my data back without disassembling. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
D.8080
Joined: 03 Apr 2006
Posts: 1474
Location: Italy
|
| Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 3:03 am Post subject: |
|
|
| picur10 wrote: | I did it many times but unfortunately it's mechanical error now.
I'll go to a data recovery firm. I found one where the investigation is free I have to pay for recover.
The hdd has a wrong noise and someone said it's almost sure this is the head or heads' preamplifier so cannot get my data back without disassembling. |
... and auctioning a kidney on ebay...
That's really annoying, hope they are not charging too much. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Qwerty
Joined: 20 May 2005
Posts: 3141
Location: Germany
|
| Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 5:21 am Post subject: |
|
|
| picur10 wrote: | I did it many times but unfortunately it's mechanical error now.
I'll go to a data recovery firm. I found one where the investigation is free I have to pay for recover.
The hdd has a wrong noise and someone said it's almost sure this is the head or heads' preamplifier so cannot get my data back without disassembling. |
Ouch!
In this case it could get REALLY expensive
The head crash is one of the most feared types of error. In the worst case it could cost you up to 3000 EUR to get your data.
If you're sure that it is an mechanical error and you don't want to have the worst case scenario - please don't try to "recover" data yourself. Otherwise you'll damage the HDD even more! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
![[ Hidden ]](https://cdn.cpu-world.com/forum/templates/CPUWorld/images/lang_english/icon_email.gif "[ Hidden ]"){kind=icon}