New Forumite & P6831fx Owner

Hey all, I have read some great information over on this forum and decided to join up. My P6831FX has been baked too many times and the damn GPU is finally crapping out for good.

Did some reading and saw about the reballing of the same GPU as a more permanent fix. So there is $100 bucks gone right there.

Then saw the 260M GPU upgrade, but noticed that there were some bios related issues so that has steered me away. Would be about $70 bucks plus a reball for another $100 grand total of $170.

Then saw the Packard Bell GX-N10 board that is DDR3 equipped and has the 260M already in it! That runs about $221 plus the cost of new memory, but that isn't that big of a deal.

So I am here about that nonsense.

 

My Packard Bell GX-N10 is very very stable so far, I will do in a while a gentoo installation to see how are things there and i believe i will undervolt the GPU. I dont have time in the next 5 weeks because i have the final 2 weeks of lecture and them 6 exam in the next 3 weeks.

 

Sweetness Lum-x. I notice you are all up in the Linux stuff. My only experience with Linux is Hackintoshes. It would be sweet if I could swap out my board with this Packard Bell one and see if I can dual boot with OSX Lion. Mainly for giggles.

Now, did I read right that the Packard Bell board is basically the same board as the P6831FX but with the better GPU and DDR3? If so, this should be smooth as silk.

EDIT: Well, I guess it is more identical to the P6860 and thus I might have the difficulties you did. Time to get to reading...

 

Yes it works. I had no problems whatsoever except for the IRQ that i have fixed and that my motherboard does not have the power button connector on the motherboard so i have to turn it on with the button that looks like and Right arrow and you cant turn it off if it freezes or something happens. I also bought a Crucial M4 SSD and its really fast.

X9000 is fast and i think is not worth going for x9100 unless you sell the x9000. I am thinking to change the screen and go for 1200p but i have to think next week as this week i have a lot of things to do before finals that are going to start in 2 weeks.

here are hte ssd benches
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sol...ash-storage/628950-ssd-war-witch-buy-p-6.html

read also the thread that i change the motherboard
I have to go because im late for lectures

 

Awesome!

I picked up the one board that was on ebay since December. It was located in Texas and have no idea how he got it here stateside. But, I offered $10 bucks and he took it. Worst case scenario is that I have a GPU for $15 shipped from this "bad" board. Best case scenario, the board doesn't have an issue at all and it fires right up.

Regardless, I am going to see about pulling the "power" cable connection off my existing board and see about grafting it to the Packard Bell board if it is good.

I am still running the T5450 and happy with it so far. No, not powerful, but man, I don't need tons of horsepower for the games I play.

 

Well, got that Packard Bell board in and did the battery connector swap from my good board to the PB board. That was a pain in the keester and took forever.

Initially, when testing to see if things worked, I plugged in just the CPU, Ram (DDR3 1333, hope it down clocks) and the LCD. I would see the screen glow then go out. The board would pulsate fans firing on and off.

So I decided to throw it in the oven at 400 for 10 minutes. Same thing happened, but this time I got some CMOS beeps but then no video at all. Assembled everything back up completely and got no video but it booted all the way into W7. I tried hooking up a monitor out the VGA port and no luck.

But I did sever a wire in the LCD cable and wonder if that might have something to do with my troubles. Taking these things apart so many times, it is bound to happen. Also, I don't have a CMOS battery hooked up since the board did not come with one and it is not compatible with the old board.

So next step is to wait for the new LCD cable and CMOS battery loom to show up. Then see how things go from there.

Anyone know if there is a relation to the CMOS battery and the GPU working properly?

Just a hopeful guess.