:p HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY 6130!!!

Yep...it's been a year now and its still going strong. No cracks, no crashes, no dead pixles...everything is great!

For those folks who may be cruizing thru...this lappy has been dragged EVERYWHERE...work, school, ect. and used HARD. the case look slike crap, buts its whole.

 

Good to hear that ... how is the battery run time now?

 

My 6130hs is a little over a year I bought it on 9/18/2004 at 3:01 PM and it's still running strong but there's a few scuff marks from putting it into my notebook backback but other than that it still looks good. I don't see any dead pixels and I haven't had to do a complete install of Windows XP. Which is a good DVD writer to replace the lite on in the 6130hs?
-Andrew

 

Same here! I've had mine for almost a year with no problems to report (knock on wood). My battery life is pretty much the same, about an hour and ten minutes depending on what I’m doing.

As for a replacement DVD drive, I personally replaced mine with the NEC ND-6500A. I like this model because there is some hacked firmware for this drive that enables bitsetting (changing the booktype of a DVD+R to DVD-Rom). There’s a newer version 6650 that burns RW and DL media a little faster (not sure if there’s any hacked firmware for this model though!).

Link to the NEC ND-6650A.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827152048

Link to a pioneer model that seems good too! This one is slot loading.

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=171021

Theres a couple of ideas for you, hope that helps.

 

Funny thing, that battery...

I came into this device knowing it was hard on batteries, so I hardly even use it unplugged. Most of my work/study is done at desks with AC access, so it's never been an issue.

I think i'm going to help beta Vista on it soon. I'll let folks know what busg I find if I do this.

 

mines alittle over a year old as well, i dont think ill be buying an averatec in the future though

 

I don't think I'll be buying another one either. Around every 2 or 3 months or so, something happens whereby the HD transfer rate drops to 3MB/s max. I have to do a factory restore, and everything's OK again (for a while). For some strange reason, I think it might have something to do with the DVD drive - I'll be playing a DVD on WMP, which will crash, the DVD drive will keep whirring and the computer locks up. When I reboot, the HD problem occurs. I've never had anyone offer me anything near an explanation, and Averatec just keeps telling me to send it to them, which I can't do as at the minute there's no way in the world I can do without my laptop for so long.

Also, the DVD tray refuses to open sometimes, and then again sometimes it refuses to close. Having had laptop problems a-plenty in the past, I babied this one, almost ridiculously so, and it's been very frustrating to see so many problems nonetheless. I think my next purchase will be a Thinkpad or something like that. Avaratec gives you great bang for your buck, but I just don't think they're made particularly well.

 

Finally, someone with the same problem. It took a while to figure out what exactly was making my computer run so slow. I don't understand how the hard drive could just partially break like that. I had the exact same transfer rate after some indeterminable point. After dealing with it for a couple months, I just went ahead and bought a new hard drive. Problem solved; even faster then before.