Dell Laptop Issues

stitch

One day I was using my Dell Latitude D600 in bed, with a Cardbus Wireless card. One day it dropped, and it couldn't find the card anymore, boom, instantly like that, I didn't do anything. Since then, no cardbus cards I have plugged in have recieved any power. I have dissassembled the machine and found nothing to be wrong. All the pins are in the right place and none are bent. What could be wrong, besides dell laptops being a peice of shit?

Q

Do you have any other PCMCIA cards you could insert to test the slot?

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alexzarach

Replace any part(s) that you suspect to be acting up. I know it's bad advice, but that's all I can suggest.

-Alexander Zarach

stitch

Q: I have tried a Cardbus LAN/Modem and another Wifi card I had, no luck.

Alex: I don't wanna put any more money in such a shitty laptop.

Q

So you're saying that the PCMCIA slot receives absolutely no power at all?

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alexzarach

(1) Either replace the 'shitty laptop'
...or...
(2) use it without replacing the slot.


There are no free options apart from (2)

-Alexander Zarach

Q

Other then disassembling it and checking it out with a VOM and seeing if you can turn up a loose connection or anything.

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MentalMadness

Strange, I worked for a large American company here, and I liked the Dell Lattitude 600 series, they were quite reliable.. And I have seen a couple of them which were very badly treated.

Maybe your wireless card fucked up your cardbus controller, but your D600 has a mini-PCI slot, so you could get a mini-pci wlan card off ebay or something. Go for the Intel 2200BG or something, really cheap, and they're great cards.

Ka0s

The C600s were LOUD when the fan was on, the D600s were fairly thick.



^ My 600 series complaints.

MentalMadness

I couldn't tell if it was loud or not, I always used them while sitting next to a dusty Cisco 2600 series switch.