New Westinghouse laptop only $399!

Has anybody run this laptop with an inverter? If you did was it a modified sine wave or pure sine wave?

I ask because I want to run Microsoft GPS on a trip in my car. From my research most laptops will run with modified sine wave "cheaper". The pure sine wave is much more expensive.

The pure is the least apt to do bad things like system crash etc.
I would appreciate any feedback. Thanks Pat.

 

I've been running one off of a mini inverter in a big rig for 6 months now, no problems. It's a modified sine 100w about 4in. sq. and 1in. thick. It has a single AC plug and a USB charger plug. About $40 at truck stops. I also use it for the MS streets with the USB GPS, setup works great.

 

thats a great idea, and i just happen to have one in the car.

 

I bought a pure sine for my moving trip to Oregon. I could not get my GPS to work properly though. My laptop seemed to want to freeze when running off the inverter?


Now my Westinghouse laptop is crashing to a blue screen! I re-loaded the Operating system and hell it is still doing it.

Has anyone had bad drivers causing problems. This is what Microsoft keeps saying is the problem.

 

The last error that come up is possible bad hardware?

Nice, I will try to deal with it before the warranty expires.

 

Sort of an old thread, but I'm adding memory to this laptop and Newegg has a 1 GB for $29.99 after an $8 mail in rebate. The lowest I've found so far. Ends 8/27, so hurry! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16820141220

 

I am in Central PA and have the same problem as Melcro.
Westinghouse refuses to send me a battery so I can back up my PC before I send it to them for replacement.
I bought this in Nov, 06 and it died Feb, 07. Pin is not broken, it just stopped accepting AC power. By the time I realized my battery was dying and not recharging, I only had 45 min left.
Westinghouse said they would send another PC, but not another battery. There are 300+ Income Tax Returns on this PC, I do free tax prep for the IRS VITA program. No way I cannot send this PC to Westinghouse with this information on it!
The last time I spoke to them, they were having a manager call me - I'm still waiting for the call
Checking the net I cant find a battery to buy. This is almost out of warrantee - can someone help me

 

Has anyone replaced the hard drive? Mine is getting full and I am planning to replace it with WDC-WD1600BEAS. I wonder how easy it is to replace it.

 

Sorry to bring this thread back from the dead but I need help. If anyone could tell me if the NB-14w2's fan comes on at the very beginning of booting up it would be helpful. I just did some work trying to fix the LCD Screen and I'm afraid I screwed up the fan. I might just be paranoid but I thought I remember the fan running at the very beginning. If anyone could tell me if there fan runs when it is first turned on it would help me a lot.

 

Who manufactures Westinghouse laptops ??

Clevo ????

 

Im having problems with my dvd drive as well, I've tried a cd lens cleaner .
But My drive is still jumping. Cant copy cds with nero..without errors. Cant even play cds or dvds with media player without distoration in sound / picture. Im still covered under warranty til Jan 08, Im wondering if I should send this noteback back. Or should i just replace the drive.
Im aslo having battery issues. It wont charge at all. Any suggestions??

 

If I were in your place I'd send the unit back asap.

 

having no problums here.

 

A few people said that they were looking in to upgrading their cpu to either a core duo or core 2 duo. If anyone has done such then I would love to know if it works properly, what the battery life is and how fast the computer heats up.

On another note if anyone is having problems with the heat I would suggest getting a notebook cooler from tigerdirect.com or newegg.com that is usb powered because that is what I have done for about 15$ and I haven't had any heating problems that worry me.
Thanks,

 

I am a loptop tech and have been for about 15 years now , working on intel based systems form the 386, and pentium classes. Received one of these units for a dc jack replacement, and i would highly recommend NOT getting one. There is no room nor expansion for a port replicator. Mainly though these system are made of flimsy plastic, so can see that easy to break if even dropped from 1'. the internal components are okay, but mainly really cheap weak plastics. really important for notebook life expetancy. You really need to shop around and look at them physically. the toughest notebooks i've seen and worked on are like panasonics though books, and fujitsu's line, but then you are paying extra for battle laptops. the worst thus far is awarded to Westinghouse (their intro to the notebook world). Shop around, and ask questions like this.

 

I agree . overprice peice of cheap plastic from CHino.

 

Ok I sent my Laptop on DEC, 12th to be exact. They received it on DEC15th. After weeks and months of calling westinghouse customer service with no answers to the status of my laptop. I was finally called back 5 days ago by a supervisor informing me to call the company my laptop to sent to just to get some answers.....hmmm
Westinghouse after almost two months of calling, you should have provided
that information from the break seeing that you guys are so incompentant
you couldnt do that yourselves.
Anyway after calling someone at the Elite group company, which were so
nice and understanding.. (take a tip westinghouse). They sent me copies of an email requesting for the laptop to be repaired since at the time it was sent in it was still under warrenty. Could you believe after almost two months they hadnt signed the quote Elite sent on DEC 17th so that it could be repaired.

Its cheaper time wise to just fix the problem yourself. I dont think I would buy a Westinghouse TV if this is what customer service and their warrenty
dept. is like. Never AGAIN.

 

Oh and it was just a simple problem the DVD burner need to change. Also
their cheap no good battery was an issue, which they are not changing.
but are requesting I pay for a new one... thanks westinghouse.

 

Wow I never even knew that they made laptops.

And that sucks; I guess you get what you pay for.

 

I have never owned a laptop before. Compared to my Daughters lower end Dell it seems kinda flexable...........

 

Is this an Intel motherboard? Trying to find documentation at Intel.com


Processor and Core Logic
Mobile Intel Celeron M Processor (Yonah), up to
1.73GHz, 1MB L2 cache
ATI RC410MD + ATI SB460 chipset with graphic, audio,
modem, and USB2.0 controllers integrated
533MHz Front Side Bus
533 / 667MHz DDR2 interface

 

I am looking for the mother board to see if I can find drivers more up to date at Intel. Unless it is not an Intel motherboard. I will have to track down the other drivers as well.

It has the screen of death and says it is being caused be a driver.

Thanks for any help

 

Keep in mind they have an approved list of memory that needs to be used for this laptop.
Otherwise you could have problems.

 

Did anyone ever find out what the chipset for this motherboard is? I want to upgrade the processor, but I don't know which ones (other than the celeron socekt m, yonah) are compatible.

 

ATI RC410MD + ATI SB460 chipset with graphic, audio,
modem, and USB2.0 controllers integrated

 

Be careful with memory some is not compatible with this laptop. I found out the hard way.
In fact I found a list a couple of months ago of compatible memory but forgot how I stumbled onto it. I can't find it now and Westinghouse said a list does not exist??????

 

Where did everybody go...........They must have all fixed their Westinghouse laptops, or thrown them away!



Is there an echo in here??????????

 

they crashed...trying to get back to the forum lol

 

Well this sure has became a pretty long thread, lol. So.. did anybody ever take pictures of where the two slots for the RAM is?
~Bryan~

 

I've had this computer for approximately a year and a half and it is a piece of crap. The battery doesn't last too long, it heats up extremely fast, it wireless card doesn't get a signal half the time, and now my COMS battery is malfunctioning.
Does anyone know exactly which CMOS battery I need right now and how to install it before i get another computer?

 

Rocket Spock
i dont agree with u... i have this laptop for 1 year now, and its great! i just (right now, actually! =P) putted 2gb of ram, and NOW is FAST than ever! this is the memory: 2x Corsair 1gb DDR2 667Mhz PC2-5300. its working great! now i want to put a Dual Core... someone can put the specifications for processor? thanks!
and... its REALLY easy to upgrade memory!

 

I bought this laptop a couple of months ago and so far it's been great. (I mostly use it for internet and school work)

But a couple of weeks ago the hard drive just stopped working so know I'm trying to replace it.
I don't know much about hard drives so I need some help.

I found this WD hard drive online and I just wanted to know if it's compatible with this laptop. Also any thoughts about this hard drive will be greatly appreciated.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136072

Thanks in advance.

 

That HD should be fine, as I'm guessing this notebook, like most/all, takes a 2.5" HD.

 

belive it or not mine is still chugging along.

 

ah this thread reminds me of the black friday $399 laptops that people would wait 24 hours in cold weather to buy, yet, the next day you could find them on craigslist for $450. that's almost a $17 savings if you waited in line!

 

Mines still working great - almost 2 yrs now! I'd like to change the cmos battery on the m/b. Anyone know were to find it? I've looked under the k/b.

Tia.

 

well mine is still working fine. but im thinking of maybe getting a net book. any sugestions

 

have you heard of ic diamond paste it might work its suppost to drop your cpu temp by 15 °f. it transfers heat instantly because it has 7ct diamonds in it!!!

 

theres a plate under the laptop that has eight screws remove that and there should be a round yellow wrapped battery witha wire attached

 

they are unbeatable!!!!!!!!1

 

Multi quote is a great thing to use

 

nice i say toosheaa

 

Up grading notes eh:

DDR max is 400 MHz.
DDR2 max is 667 MHz.
Support for 2Mx32 (with 64-bit interface), 4Mx32, 8Mx32 and 16Mx16 memory devices
Intel ® Pentium® M, Intel Celeron®, Celeron® M and Intel Pentium® 4 processors
And apparently core 2 duo
Hyper-Threading Support
Support for Enhanced Intel Speedstep Technology
Supports Advanced Power Management with CPU Throttling capability.