Older S6120 help

Hello,

I have had an older 1.4ghz P-M S6120 for about a year now, and recently the power jack in the rear came unsoldered, so I took apart the unit and reattached it. It worked fine for about 20 minutes, then I turned it off for the night, and the next morning it would not power on, with one exception. The small LCD panel above the keyboard works just fine, and I can see the battery charging and the Power symbol shows the laptop as being on. But there is no fan action, no backlight or any action on the LCD, no CD-eject, no Hard drive spinning. It does this both through the battery, AC power as well as AC through the port replicator.

Can anyone reccomend some options for me? Is everything\anything dead? Is it possibly a fried CPU or moBo component? Should the screen and hard drive still be good? Thank you for all of your ideas and help!

Brian

 

I'm in the exact same boat with my girlfriends s6110 the power connector disconnected from the board inside the laptop. Our current work around is that our docking station can still charge it..

What you may want to do is take it apart again and ensure that everything is making good contact... also ensure your RAM is seated well that seems to be another thing that causes mine to boot weird.

Hope that helps a bit

Adam.

 

Adam,

I disassembled it completely again, making extra sure that all of the cables and such (memory included) were seated correctly, with no sucess. I will part it out soon probably, guess its time to upgrade!

Brian

 

haha good way to look at it, I'm kinda pushing for one of those for my GF's I'm looking at the new ASUS w3j so she may get a hand me down

the thing i've really found with the s6110 vs any other laptop i've had is that the s6110 is very finiky about being worked on, If I take the RAM out and such like that and put it back in it gets quite upset and won't boot for an hour or two sometimes.. I just walk away from it and come back to it in a few hours and tada it works... I just figured the machine had gremlins inside it

good luck in the search for a new machine, I'd suggest the asus w3j or w3v based on what i've seen so far

Adam.

 

Thanks adam,

I will be going to college next year, and I am planning on building an Opteron 165 rig with an X1800XT or such, along with a 24" widescreen monitor and TV card, all for under $1000. I just want an older\cheaper notebook for notes or the occasional mobile DVD; I dont want to be tempted to play games! Maybe the updated version of the smaller MSI barebones, or the MIS 1013 with a turion and the X200 chipset for an occational game of Civ3 or Wolfenstein ET. We shall see. But thanks again for your help...I've already found a buyer for the screen and keyboard. Still have a great battery (got 3:30 from it two weeks ago).

Brian