My nc6000 lappy also ran into same problem. The pc was gifted to me one & half years ago. Had good times playing with it. But on last 8 April, 2008. I put the pc into standby and returned home from my friend's house in my bicycle.
On the way, had some hard jerk that made the bag having my nc6000 to hit my back hardly.
After reaching home, I saw the standby LED blinking ok. So I pressed the power button to checkout if its alright.
But the amber LED glow up. Thought the battery was charging. Nevertheless, pc got shutdown after sometime. And when I turned it ON again, the cooling fan runs but no post screen and after some time amber LED glow up, after which
pc gets shutdown.
Its been couple of weeks, I've been going though the posts in this forum. It is really annoying to press at the top right of the pc with your hand and wait for the XP to boot and wait at login screen. And you never know when the screen will go blank as the pressure on the hand is not constant. Likewise, it was working few time when I untigh and again tightened the screw located at the top left side of the cooling fan. But this approach stopped working as well after few days.
I've tried every options posted in this forum so far. Have even tried the soldering in the DC jack pins only on the mother board. The only option left was using the hot air station in that MAXIM 1987 chip which is a SMD having tiny pins. Don't have the idea about the hot air soldering things. So I just went to buy the magnifier with the torch and used my old fine tipped soldering rod as mentioned in this forum.
It was not my first attempt of soldering but then the pins in that chip is extremely tiny. So my hand was shaking as I brought the soldering iron near to the pins to re solder. But finally I practiced the soldering in some useless mobile phone pcb having the SMD devices. And tried soldering this MAX 1987 chip. This time the hand wasn't shaking that much.
So I finally re soldered all the pins of that chip. And yes, I got the mother board working guys. Thanks to the people who shared the idea of the solution to be re soldered. And have suggestions to those who are trying to solder the chip, plz don't burn out your mother board and spend your precious money in buying new one. Get the people who are expertise in soldering to re solder the chip. Good Luck.
On the way, had some hard jerk that made the bag having my nc6000 to hit my back hardly.
After reaching home, I saw the standby LED blinking ok. So I pressed the power button to checkout if its alright.
But the amber LED glow up. Thought the battery was charging. Nevertheless, pc got shutdown after sometime. And when I turned it ON again, the cooling fan runs but no post screen and after some time amber LED glow up, after which
pc gets shutdown.
Its been couple of weeks, I've been going though the posts in this forum. It is really annoying to press at the top right of the pc with your hand and wait for the XP to boot and wait at login screen. And you never know when the screen will go blank as the pressure on the hand is not constant. Likewise, it was working few time when I untigh and again tightened the screw located at the top left side of the cooling fan. But this approach stopped working as well after few days.
I've tried every options posted in this forum so far. Have even tried the soldering in the DC jack pins only on the mother board. The only option left was using the hot air station in that MAXIM 1987 chip which is a SMD having tiny pins. Don't have the idea about the hot air soldering things. So I just went to buy the magnifier with the torch and used my old fine tipped soldering rod as mentioned in this forum.
It was not my first attempt of soldering but then the pins in that chip is extremely tiny. So my hand was shaking as I brought the soldering iron near to the pins to re solder. But finally I practiced the soldering in some useless mobile phone pcb having the SMD devices. And tried soldering this MAX 1987 chip. This time the hand wasn't shaking that much.
So I finally re soldered all the pins of that chip. And yes, I got the mother board working guys. Thanks to the people who shared the idea of the solution to be re soldered. And have suggestions to those who are trying to solder the chip, plz don't burn out your mother board and spend your precious money in buying new one. Get the people who are expertise in soldering to re solder the chip. Good Luck.
