dean_whu

So I have discovered that obviously the inverter is not near the power jack, the inverter is inside the screen. I am not sure what I was thinking. I have however replaced the inverter in the Acer with a known working inverter and still no change. In both instances having changed the power jack and got the machine working, the screens are incredibly dim. Does nobody have any help for me, please?

Hello, I wondered if you could help. I was given a couple of old laptops that were no longer wanted because people had upgraded and the power jacks had failed. They were Acer Aspire 5630 and Compaq Evo n610c. I dont know if this is coincidence, but both screens at the last time of using were known to work. After removing the broken jacks and soldering in the new ones (successfully) the display would not come on, and in both cases initially would be very dim. I am quite a beginner when it comes to soldering, and as in both cases the inverter is close to the power jack, I wondered if it would make sense that I could have somehow shorted the inverters in both cases? Even though the creen and inverter would not have been attached while soldering. Or maybe it is just coincidence? Any help you could give me for now and for future power jack fixes would be really great. Also re. the inverter, I suppose the only way of knowing if it is an inverter or lcd problem is through, replacing and trial and error? Thanks a lot, Dean.

Hello, I wondered if somebody had any ideas. My friend has a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-115D, on a Windows XP setup. The computer is about a year old, but they are unable to tell me if they have ever successfully burnt a CD on this machine, but probably not. DVD's burn and read fine, however. Initially whenever you put in a blank cd you would get d: is inaccessible, and you could not burn a cd through Nero or explorer. I fixed this initial problem in the registry by changing the value data under drive type from 3 to 2. This would then add a 'recording' tab under the properties of the optical drive. You could then check the box allowing the drive to record cd's. This would allow a blank CD to be seen when you double clicked on the drive but not if you try and write files to it through explorer, it woud just keep on asking for a blank cd. Trying to burn a data Cd in Nero would go through the whole process up to 100% but fail at the end. I know the discs are ok because they worked fine on the drive in my Mac. The drive was able to read the data on the cd that I burnt in my Mac. I am 99% sure it is not the drive because I can burn DVD's, and more relevant I swapped in a new LG drive and I have exactly the same problem. I uninstalled the driver for the drive, and still the same problem. I uninstalled and reinstalled the IDE controller drivers, but to no affect. Maybe the Intel drivers do not work with this drive? One thing I have noticed is I think pretty much every time I do a reboot the value data I changed earlier in the Registry reverts back to 3 which makes it just a read only drive. I then have to change it back and make the drive writeable again. I know this is long winded, but just trying to give you all of the information! is it possible it could be something to do with the IDE drivers? On my pc I seem to only have 1 primary IDE controler and 1 secondary IDE controller. Their setup has two of each underneath two Intel controllers one called Ultra ATA Storage Contollers and one called Serial ATA Storage Controller. Otherwise could it be anything to do with the slave/master setup on the physical drive? What should be the correct setup for slave/master/cable on optical drives. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Kind regards, Dean.

Oh and yes, I do have the XP disc....... Thanks

Hi, and thank you for your replies. I do not want SP3 for various reasons. I have built several computers for people and some are fine with SP3, on others I have had a lot of problems. Another of mine I had to do a complete refresh on after installing SP3. Thanks for info re. slipstreaming, however, I would much rather remove SP3 in its entirety. Any other ideas? Obviously I can bite the bullet and do a fresh install....but I was hoping there would be a more simple solution. Thanks Dean

Hello, can somebody please help! I have trawled the internet for literally hours with no luck as of yet. I need to remove SP3 because it is causing various problems, and I never wanted to install it anyway (somebody changed my automatic updates setting gggrrrr!) I have tried everything possible so far......it does show in add/remove but comes up with the message that it cannot be uninstalled because it cannot find the file specified. I have tried using the bundled uninstaller through Start --> Run and this gives the same error message. I have tried reinstalling SP3 and uninstalling, same problem. I have tried going back to system restore points, and this works but then immediately reinstalls it, whether connected to the internet or not. If I look back over the last few months there are at least a several instances of Software distribution 3.0 having been installed at random intervals but always at about 4am, so it seems if you go back to a restore point there is always an earlier instance of the service pack having been installed. Finally I ran the Recovery Console and followed all the instructions that are given here (How to remove Windows XP Service Pack 3 from your computer) to remove SP3 but again no luck. There must be a problem, as in as it was installed without my knowledge, maybe it was corrupted because Anti-Virus program was running etc. Please, any help will be gratefully received. I have spent many hours on this already. Kind regards, Dean