Testing bare X2xx mobos - minimum level of reassembling?
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 12:21 am
Hello!
I had an X200, which had a faulty CCFL LCD cable and then a faulty (bended) sim card slot.
The sim card slot was recently repaired, a new one was soldered on the MB.
Anyway, I made the transition to an X201 (which acquired as a stripped unit, so I built in the most important parts from the X200 - a new LCD cable, keyboard, AFFS display, battery, SSD, inverter board, palmrest, RAM door...).
How can I test the fixed X200 board, without reassembling the X200 as whole? I have some Linux live distros on pendrive for this.
I have the MB, the power jack, the MB base, the WLAN and WWAN cards, the I/O cards in place. I can attach a LED LCD cable with it's board, but I wouldn't like to attach the display (I don't have spare X2xx display, only external monitors) - the AFFS-modded X201 I have is my daily driver, so if not needed, I would not take it apart. I have also an X200 Ultrabase.
Can I do this without an internal display and maybe with an USB keyboard? What's the best course of action?
The same questions can apply to the X220 too, because I have an opportunity to get a stripped X220 (MB, MB base, power jack, WLAN module, lid assembly, antennaes - no keyboard, no display, no LCD cable, no palmrest, no HDD and HDD rails), the difference here is I don't have compatible Ultrabase unit. (Then I would have the challenge to build it from scratch.
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Thank You in advance!
(PS.: as usual, forgive my English, I'm Hungarian, possibly some grammar errors should be here, but I hope I was clear with that I was intended to ask.)
I had an X200, which had a faulty CCFL LCD cable and then a faulty (bended) sim card slot.
The sim card slot was recently repaired, a new one was soldered on the MB.
Anyway, I made the transition to an X201 (which acquired as a stripped unit, so I built in the most important parts from the X200 - a new LCD cable, keyboard, AFFS display, battery, SSD, inverter board, palmrest, RAM door...).
How can I test the fixed X200 board, without reassembling the X200 as whole? I have some Linux live distros on pendrive for this.
I have the MB, the power jack, the MB base, the WLAN and WWAN cards, the I/O cards in place. I can attach a LED LCD cable with it's board, but I wouldn't like to attach the display (I don't have spare X2xx display, only external monitors) - the AFFS-modded X201 I have is my daily driver, so if not needed, I would not take it apart. I have also an X200 Ultrabase.
Can I do this without an internal display and maybe with an USB keyboard? What's the best course of action?
The same questions can apply to the X220 too, because I have an opportunity to get a stripped X220 (MB, MB base, power jack, WLAN module, lid assembly, antennaes - no keyboard, no display, no LCD cable, no palmrest, no HDD and HDD rails), the difference here is I don't have compatible Ultrabase unit. (Then I would have the challenge to build it from scratch.
)Thank You in advance!
(PS.: as usual, forgive my English, I'm Hungarian, possibly some grammar errors should be here, but I hope I was clear with that I was intended to ask.)