Re: [NTLK] Changing motherboard

From: Kate Case <kate.case_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue Sep 05 2006 - 04:00:14 EDT

It's probably bleeding obvious from my previous question that I'm a
complete novice when it comes to this sort of thing. Basically I
bought a 2100 from someone on ebay, I wasn't happy with the screen,
the seller offered to send me an upgraded 2000 and "keep the other
one for spares". Except when the 2000 arrived today it's not an
upgraded one and it also keeps coming up with error (-10557) which I
looked up on unna where it said "flash card Vpp is low" which means
nothing to me and there isn't a card in the thing anyway.
So I thought the best thing would be to just swap the screen, but it
looks a tad dicey for someone with no experience. I'm a jeweller so
I'm used to doing things carefully and precisely, i just don't have
experience with the insides of electronic things!
I don't want to pay someone to have it done and now that I've got the
thing I don't want to send it back (it's too late to cure me of the
Newton disease!)
Any tips or advice gratefully accepted!

Kate

On 05/09/2006, at 3:28 PM, Jon Glass wrote:

> On 9/5/06, Kate Case <kate.case@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a 2100 with a crappy screen (badly scratched) and a 2000 with
>> a great screen. Which would be easier: swapping the screen or the
>> motherboard? I have found online instructions for the former
>> (dev.newtontalk.net), but not the latter. Can anyone direct me to a
>> page with instructions for this?
>
> If you mean a complete swap of the "guts" then I think there's no real
> difference, but if you mean swapping the brains, it would be harder...
>
> However, I just did this recently, myself--and I replaced the screen.
> It didn't make sense to me to put the brawn of a 2100 into the body of
> a 2000 when I had the 2100 case, so I swapped screens.
>
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