PARTS 600 OR 600X?

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HarryWild · #1 Post by **HarryWild** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 12:27 am

I will sooner or later be repair my 600X and was wonder if a 600 or 600X parts notebook is want I am needing to look for? I have a 650MHZ model is 2645 9WU.

Basically i expect probably the backlight may burn out and maybe the keyboard and bezel may also be in need of repair. But other minor parts in time will probably come out and get lost too.

Maybe someone will offer replacement state of the art cpu motherboards for these 600Xs in the near future.

Can some tell me why a T42 motherboard cannot be use on a 600X chasis as a direct replacement?

Bruce Guttman · #2 Post by **Bruce Guttman** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 3:57 pm

I can't talk to whether the T-series system boards will work in a 600X.

Any 600 display or keyboard (600, 600E, 600X) will work in your 600X. All 600 plug-in parts (floppy, CD-ROM, DVD, Zip, battery, hard drive) will fit in any other 600 series machine.

Depending on which 600X you have, you can use either a 500MHz or a 650MHz maximum CPU, Intel Pentium III MMC-II. Some folks report putting in faster CPU's, but they tend to be expensive.

The system board for the 600X is different from the other 600's, as is the entire lower case.

Hope this helps.

Guest · #3 Post by **Guest** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 11:42 pm

Hi Bruce,

You are very knowledgable and I think I just stick with a 600X repairable with excellent cosmetic condition for future needs. I love to get a T42 sytem board maybe two or three years from now; when they are considered obsolete and just try it. My neighbor is a senior computer engineer and when push come to shove; I could ask him to do the install. He a genius; and it would probably not be a big deal to him! He probably needs to place a capacity here and a resister there and maybe hack into the bios to do some fixes.

So I might end up with the fastest 600X in the world!

It may be that the PCI Express motherboard is want I will go with? I can always dream!

Harry

JHEM · #4 Post by **JHEM** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 12:22 am

Harry,

Beyond the small but uninsurmountable problem of the T40 MB layout, and therefore the connections, being different than the 600X MB, there's the additional problem that the T40 MB is larger than the 600X MB and simply won't fit in the lower unit.

Regards,

James

Guest · #5 Post by **Guest** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 1:57 am

James,

I guess it the X series then! What do you think about that the X series motherboard - the X31?

Or will that not work either - because no optical drive connector?

Harry

monty cantsin · #6 Post by **monty cantsin** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 9:14 am

Anonymous wrote:James,

I guess it the X series then! What do you think about that the X series motherboard - the X31?

Or will that not work either - because no optical drive connector?

Harry

No. You won't be able to upgrade the main board. Learn to live with it.

Harry, a general note: notebooks are very, very different to ordinary desktop computers because of their smaller size. With some exceptions (like mini-PCI cards, memory sticks, hard drives) there aren't many standard parts in them which can be swapped or even upgraded easily. This is especially true for the planar board, the main component of a notebook computer. You may be able to swap such parts within a series, but certainly you can't take 'em from totally different machines and drop them in.

That's also one of the reasons why desktop PCs still exist. If you don't need the portability of a mobile computer, you're better off with such a stationary PC (it's much more ergonomic, cheaper and better upgradeable).

Btw, how are your nushield experiments proceeding? I checked their website and learned that it holds in place without adhesives. How well does it actually stick to the screen? I wouldn't think that it could really compare to those XBRITE screens you were longing for.

HarryWild · #7 Post by **HarryWild** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 1:09 am

Hi monty,

Btw, how are your nushield experiments proceeding? I checked their website and learned that it holds in place without adhesives. How well does it actually stick to the screen? I wouldn't think that it could really compare to those XBRITE screens you were longing for.

NuShield sent me the non-glare version which was damaged during shipping and so I e-mail them back and asking them if there was a more glossy version. I did not know they made two versions:

1) non-glare
2) glossy

The non-glare version made things a little more clear and had very little glare but did not give the splashy look of X-Brite.

I requested that the replacement be the glossy versions and they will send it as soon as they cut it out from stock!

BTW, my screws at the bottom were so tight that the hardware store stripped them; and I had to go to the notebook store PC To GO to get it fixed. They had to break the frame to unscrew the screws and charged me over $100 for parts and labor to put this item in! They only showed me after the repaired that that was the way they found it with three small dimpoles and on 1/4" dimpole all on the righthand side.

But I really like it! And I will try to put it in myself when I receive it! In the mean time it still a improvement in viewing; not that X-BRITE but it clearer! It does reflex from the direct light on it like any glass only less so!

So I hoping for two weeks from now!

Fit was okay from what I see!

Harry

P.S. Maybe I will let PC TO GO replace it; it will take 10 minutes and I am very causious on damaging the 600X like the hardware store did.

PARTS 600 OR 600X?

PARTS 600 OR 600X?

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