Stripped screw problem- acer ferrari 3200

I have an old acer ferrari 3200. I'm getting a new sager next month. I would still like the ferrari to just carry around. It works fine, but without a cooler it can't game or do anything really intensive. I think i can fix it by applying artic silver under my gpu and cpu. However, the problem is the heatsinking screws that are connecting my laptop are stripped. I have tried using bigger screw drivers and etc. But no luck. Only thing i haven't done so far is actually go in with a drill. Do you guys have any suggestions on what i should do?

 

find a replacement screw first...

then on the stripped screw, use some quickset epoxy to glue a screwdriver into the screwhead.... (jbweld makes a product called JB QUICK... setup up in 5 mins,,, full cure in a few hrs.. verses 24 for most epoxys)

after the epoxy is good and dry.. try turning the screwdriver...

OR if the screw sticks up above the heatsink far enough,, a good pair of channel locks could grip the round edges of the screw enough to get it to start turning..

 

ahh thanx i might try that

 

it makes more sense than having a 500 RPM drill bit that close to your motherboard

 

Hahah yea, much better solution than a drill rofl. i think ill try that once i get my sager 5796 in which will be next month. I mean as of now it works and i have a good cooler so it doesn't overheat. I just don't want to experiment till i get a replacement. Thanx for the help

 

that i can totally understand....

last night i was trying to help an ACER owner recover from a botched BIOS FLASH... and to make a long story short, in not understanding how a CRYSIS RECOVERY DISK (when loaded on a thumbdrive) works.... i ended up corrupting my own BIOS.

BUT atleast thanks the the EXACT PROCESS that corrupted my BIOS i was able to fix laptop and get it back to life.... then i had to flash it with a BIOS that wasn't more that a year old.... So i did learn alot about BIOS RECOVERY and got to promote JB WELD too!

 

Hi Folks,

I just upgraded my memory on my Acer Aspire 6920G, however I'm running in to a problem getting one of the screws to catch on the threads.

I noticed some of the screws are color coded. Is anyone aware of which colored screws should go where, or if this is a common problem with this model?

I have pretty much cycled through all of them and its getting a bit frustrating

Thanks,
Doug

 

Are you sure they are colour coded and not that the colour you are seeing is threadlock?

 

That's possible, but that makes we wonder why they would go to he trouble of having different colors.

One other thing was I took the cover off and tried putting the screw in by itself, just to see if maybe the thread was damaged. It went in just fine.

This particular screw is on the hinge side, and seems to secure the fan duct in addition to securing the cover. It may be the duct bracket is shifting when I'm popping the cover back on, and the alignment gets screwed up some how.

 

I dont know if they make em small enough, but i know theres a bit for a screw driver that has an odd looking head, its specifically made to remove screws with stripped head. Try your local auto parts store and tell em you need to remove a stripped screw, they'll know what ya need

someguy, one of the screws (i think it had red on it) is slightly longer then the rest, IIRC it goes to the bottom left or top left of the fan. Try the longer one where the short wont catch.

 

Could be that you have mixed some of the screws up and that one or two are longer? I know my hinge screws are longer than the base fixing screws.

 

Out of all the screws there is only one that appears to be slightly longer by at most 2-3 threads. I have been using this at most of my attempts.

DarkCobra, I noticed you must have replaced the stock drive that came with your 6920, with a 7200rpm momentus. Have you noticed any performance difference over the stock 5400rpm drive?

 

I know the longer one goes in a specific hole cuz the others don't catch.

As for the drive, I swapped it the day I bought the laptop (had it in my 5570z before), so I can't exacly comment on the stock drive, but in the 5570 it was a huge improvement. Most of the performance increase I think has to do with the 16mb cache.

 

Thanks, unfortunately there isn't much in the way of reviews comparing 5400rpm/8mb cache drives to 7200/16mb cache drives. Did you ghost the old drive prior to replacing it, or bother with the hidden partition?

 

Naww... I just went with a feash vista... But vista rates the drive as 5.9 if that will help ya compair it... PM me if ya wanna talk bout this some more & we can get back on topic here.