[davidw@fairadsl.co.uk: Re: um32w!]

[Justin R. Pessa]

Folks,

I wanted to send this to the list for the archives. 

This is a possible fix for those having problems with your UM32W Sharp
laptops.

Best,

Justin

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From: "Dave" <davidw at fairadsl.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 15:17:45 -0000
To: "Justin R. Pessa" <jstn at sdf.lonestar.org>
Subject: Re: um32w!
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180

hey!

i thot it seemed a bit more than just static - i could get it fairly 
consistently - more like a current than just static electricity to be 
honest, if i left my elbow on the laptop and on any earth, i found i could 
feel the 'shock' almost constantly :(

i'm pretty sure it was a screw which was causing a short across the 
motherboard/graphics card - either way, i masked up virtually all the screw 
holes and the entire motherboard (just to be sure and i've had no trouble 
with mine at all!

it might just be me, but i'm also pretty sure my battery lasts longer (i 
used it for a LONG time today (i usually get <1 hour out of it, and i used 
it for over an hour today and i still have some charge left (fairly 
intensive too - extracting zip files and games - worms armageddon!).

other than that, (and the crashing stopping) its not powered down once and 
i've never seen the capslock+numlock or numlock+scrolllock blinking at all - 
i had the gfx card bug out once, but it was using some very old software - 
which also caused a similar problem on my desktop (VPU recover saved the 
desktop tho).

also, jsut to be clear - i removed several screws and didnt replace them (as 
i had no way of insulating them, i currently have arond 20 screws from 
inside it which i removed (laptop still functions perfectly, and it doesnt 
rattle or anything, just minimal number of screws (none from base of laptop 
(going from outside to inside) are in use atm tho.

also, be sure to insulate the metal cover which conceals the mini-pci device 
(lan/wifi) as this could short out.

seriously hope this helps someone out there!

Dave
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From: "Justin R. Pessa" <jstn at sdf.lonestar.org>
To: "Dave" <davidw at fairadsl.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: um32w!



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