OK, so basically ireplaced the hard drive in my laptop with a compact flash card using a cf to ide adapter.... Unfortunately dismantling my laptop (asus s6f) is an extremely hard task compared to most other laptops,as it requires u toremove and unplug all the circuit boards etc.... remove the screen. So anyway i successfully replaced the hd, and evrything was working fine... unfortunately soon later i'd realised that one of the mobo plugs wasnt plugged in properly which waswhy the status led lghtswere not working... so i tried to push it in with (wait for it) .... a pen knife lol,, it was 5 in the morning ad ididnt know what the hell i was doing.. all i could think about was playing sc lol. The pen knife totally severed the cable... and my laptop ceased to work... have a look at the pic.. and tell me if thre are any quick fixes (ie alternative ways to start the laptop) or if there is anywhere i can find replacement parts or how much a repair shop would charge to repair it ....
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Jissac your picture is not clear. What was damaged exactly, the cable? connector/plug? or both?
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yeh soz my webcam's a bit crappy .... the cable is basically cut in two.. the connector/plug is fine
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And it is cut close to the plug? right?
What type of plug is that? how many wires?
may be you could buy laptop speakers and use their cable/plug to rapair yours? -
or those of a fan maybe?
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its a wide flat wire about 1cm wide... so i'm pretty sure it cant be repaired... i mean my computer wont even turn on.... help please!!!
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Jisaac
Is it a normal cable with 2-3 wires or a flex flat cable?
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yeh sorry that was the term i was looking for, its an ffc
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jisaac,
is there any extra length in the wire.
You are probably not going to be able to find the exact cable for sale on the internet, but what you can do, is very lightly sand or cut the plastic coating off one side of the (assuming its a ribbon cable) and than get to the point where the copper wires are showing. You will need to do this to both sides where the break was. Then very gently and carefully solder short thin wires to connect the two. You will have to do this for however many wires their are. Its a very tedious process, but it should work for you. After the solder dries, grab some hot glue and cover the connections so that the adjacent wires do not cause electrical interference or shorts.
Good luck man, you need to learn when to stop cause patience is key to computers. The second one pushes it something can go wrong.
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So why not get an FFC and just replace yours.
I had to replace on in my gateway in the beginning of the year. this cable connected the power board with the motherboard. in my case it had four flat wire and two of them broke.
The cable I used for replacement had six wires. I just cut the extra two wires at both end soI could plug the replacement FFC. -
i had to split the attached ffc cable into the top and bottom parts, to expose the metal wires... i then just inserted this into the connector on the mobo. Luckily i bothered trying this can't believe it actually worked lol neways stopped me from wasting anymore money on buying an eee pc
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cool ....
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One day the laptop refused to turn ON, and the Blue LED refused to switch ON too, so I opened the MX3050 and used a tester to check the FFC. I didn't find any resistance in two of of the four wires composing this flex cable.
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Now I have a newer Gateway laptop (MX3101) and the power board is integrated with the motherboard, and hence no more flex cable, appart from the one connecting the touch pad. -
thanks i just need to know cos if the mobo is burnt then i'll just get a new laptop, but if its the ffc cable i'll just get a new cable. -
bump bump.....
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smoke is not a good signe... you may have burn something...wait for a confirmation from the others.
If you battery is flat, or the circuitery that allows your laptop to power from the battery has burn, you would not be able to power from the battery. This would explain why you could power using the AC only.
Jisaac I know that repairing anything in the UK (London in particular) is way too expensive do to expensie labour. I think instead of going for a complete new system, you should look in ebay for a low spec intel based laptop (preferably one with a Celeron M, 512 ram) with a broken screen, and then recover all the good part from your broken laptop to the one you will be getting from ebay.
Or you could try to look for a mother boards replacement for your system.
I mean we all want to hae a tiny laptop like the EeePC but power-wise the EeePC is very limited, in particular compared to your laptop. -
Jisaac what laptop do you have?
Off topic;
did you try to vLite all the versions of vista so you have a vLited CD/DVD that contain all versions but vLited? or did you do that in one version only? -
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Jisaac what C2D did you manage to overclock to 2.8ghz? and how did you do it? using something like setFSB?
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lol i've bought two ffc cables online just now -one's a failsafe... even if it doesnt work with a battery, at least it wont be completely useless. -
UPDATE:
ok the two ffc cables arrived yesterday.
the first cable i broke cos i was rushing lol.
the second cable i successfully split (there was 32 connectors but i only needed 15), and the replacement seems to have worked. Unfortunately the power button does not work, and I can turn on the laptop but only by unplugging the power adapter, and then plugging it back in again. I cannot turn on the laptop running on battery power, or even with the battery plugged in on ac power. I guess the power connectors/components on the mobo got fried or somethin... neways i'll have to get an eee or somethin cos i cant rely on ac power in lessons etc... at least its actually usable though.
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You can always replace the buttons cant you?
Usually the buttons are pretty standard 2 stage surface mount buttons. You can probably buy replacement ones and solder them on.
You can check to see if the power button does work, by using a voltmeter and checking for resistance.
Maybe one of the wires in the FFC cable is not connected all of the way preventing the power button from working.
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well the power button is working cos when i press it when my laptop is powered on my laptop just turns off instantly... i'm pretty sure the ffc cable is pushed in fully so i must have burnt some components on the mobo...
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Jisaac parting with £260+ in an EeePC 900 isn't a bit too expensive?
check this Sumsung Q35 out it's about the same size are you ASUS and times and times more powerful that any EeePC in todays market:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Samsung-Q35-Limited-Edition-Red-Ultraportable_W0QQitemZ280266831162QQihZ018QQcategoryZ177QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Broken laptop when modding.
Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by jisaac, Sep 8, 2008.