Comments on: Averatec 6200 laptop deconstruction

By: James816

James816 — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:15:06 +0000

My Averatec 6200 got overheat and shutted
off. It’s not power on any more. Is there
a way to fix it (replaceable fuse?). The DVD
player still works.

By: rockbreaker

rockbreaker — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:49:01 +0000

Anyone going to load windows 7 on Averatec 6200. I checked the compatability for 7 but my vid card wont take take advantage of this Os? Anyway to upgrade the vid section?

THanks

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:21:16 +0000

fantastic guide, worked wonderfully until the screen didn’t work when I put it back together. I’m not sure what I’ve done wrong or if I’ve damaged the connections or something but does that mean I need to replace the LCD display now? I love this old machine and it does seem to work with an external display but that kinda defeats the object of a “lap”top! Do you know if there is a display that will match cuz Averatec parts are thin on the ground and expensive here in the uk. Thanks.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:40:02 +0000

Faustino:
You can get the whole assembly form Averatec out of warranty tech support for about 75 dollars. otherwise you just have to keep trying ebay and other internet sites.

By: D Pete

D Pete — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:05:22 +0000

I now know how to simply leave a trail of solder between power supply on circuit board to power supply itself (connecting pin) which solves problems of losing power circuit. It really is as easy as soldering a trail of solder all the way from the ciruit board around the power supply componet to it’s metal piece. If you can get this trail of solder all the way between circuit board and this metal piece, you will solve the problem of the weakness within this power jack componet. Get the solder to run from the circuit board around the outside of the power jack to it’s metal part.

By: Faustino

Faustino — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:28:45 +0000

Hello,

Does anyone know where I can get the whole board assembly where the Power jack, 2 USB ports, rj45/rj11 jacs are connected to? My sister’s computer has the power jack pretty much fried and her phone jack and Ethernet jacks aren’t working. So she needs the whole assembly.

The whole assembly is displayed on one the images above where the subject is holding it on his hand.

http://fatpenguinblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/averatec%20rj45%20rj11%20usb%20module.jpg

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:35:58 +0000

Hey Ali
This model came out in 2004, the technology is pretty old, Most of these on ebay never sell for more than 150 bucks. That being said I am willing to buy some cheap parts like a DC power jack and fix it my self. but I would not be willing to to spend much more.

you said “When your laptops heate up, did it start to tick? and eventually the ticking gets faster.. faster” sounds like something in your fan or wrong with your fan.

as far as Ubuntu is concerned goto http://www.ubuntu.com/ and download the ISO and burn the image to a cd and then stick it in and install it. I did not have to do anything special. it just went on and worked. even the wireless worked.

Does anyone know where I can buy Just the USB sockets cheap. I am having trouble finding them and I need them.

thanks Ya’all
Mike

By: Rod E.

Rod E. — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:37:19 +0000

I am selling mine for parts dismantaled less the hard drive. It has always run hot from day one and from looking at the CPU and mother bord it looks like it was overheating the CPU. The best solution I see on this blog is the coolant you aply to the heat sink, a higher RPM fan would help to. The person, Ali that is talking about the ram heating up and needing to instal more ram…………..mine had been upgraded to two gigs and was on a targus twin fan cool mat. Two gigs is the max on that mother bord so you are off base and your machine will become a paper weight. The person, Ali also talking about spending $105 bucks on their machine………if you can get it fixed and fixed right for that you should do so. Mine was $1060.00 new and to replace it I am looking at spending $500.00 minimum, and for that I get an HP with a cheep intel celeron 900 procesosor. Sure the hard drive is 320 gig and it has 4 gigs of ram but it is a windows 7 machine so I have to fight with all the drivers for printers cameras and all that and I get that cheep processor and who knows what else is cheep, I think the mother bord is maxed out at 4 gigs so it doesnt sound like a high end part either. I looked into Acer but they have battery isues that cause you to have to run without the battery till you get a new one and they don’t last. You can leave the battery in if you go in and change your bios so the windows battery control doesnt charge the battery but otherwise it trys to charge a bad battery and robs the buss of power and when you go under 5 volts at the buss you get problems with the mouse and keybord and stuff so they are out. Had a better processor though. Cost a fortune in batteries is all. LOL. I like the IBM best but that is too much $ for me to blow on a laptop when I use it for personal stuff most of the time and have a destop for the “heavy lifting”.

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:45:17 +0000

Rod and Mike, (and anyone else)

When your laptops heate up, did it start to tick? and eventually the ticking gets faster.. faster… and soon the machine gets hot and freezes!! (interesting.. hot and freezes.. that’s a first!).

Mike.. Ubuntu.. hmmm.. so now the laptop has become a pseudo desktop (cause you can’t move around without a cord to the wall)… do you have any site that can help me do this if i want to go that route.

Went to geek squad.. they will charge me 70 to look at it and 35 if it is hardware.. what the.. is it worth it?

Thanks.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:28:19 +0000

Hey ya’all - just wanted to share a few quick things about my Averatec 6210. I was haveing an over heating problem too then I installed Ubuntu 9.1.0 (Karmic) it told me that my battery was bad, so I removed the battery and started running it off of the A/C adapter only and it has not ovrheated since. Just something you might want to try.

OBTW - Ubuntu 9.1.0 (Karmic) runs great on that old machine, I layered the EdUbuntu package over it and my kids love it.

Happy Holidays Ya’all