One of my relation has been bought a new (used) notebook from Japan ( NEC VersaPro VY14M/EX-W) . As you know Japanese always use Japanese language in their products. Accordingly that note book OS (Operating system) (windows XP) is also came in Japanese language. So he asked me to install the XP English version on that notebook. One week ago I did that. But after 3 days they came back and complained that notebook couldn’t use for internet voice calls such as google talk skype or yahoo. I did some investigations to identify the problem, but couldn’t find any problem. Finally I decided to reinstall windows.
2008.02.17 Reinstalled windows and felt every thing is fine. Oh…! My Goad… following day (2008.02.18) they phoned me again and did the same complain. ;-( I went to their home and did several investigations to recognize the problem in notebook until late night. I couldn’t found any issue…. But the problem was same. Finally we (I and Nalin) carried the notebook to our home for more investigations. The main problem was no English version in help or downloadable drivers for NEC (Japanese) computers. ;-D What a surprise!! … when I switch-on the notebook on 2008.02.19 it worked perfectly ;-( So what am I do now?… I don’t like to overcome any problem without knowing the reason. I browsed the youtube and at the same time got internet calls through Google talk and yahoo. No any issue… ;) but after 15 minutes it was given the same problem. Notebook was slowdown and finally stopped. Then we guessed the reason... Is it due to overheat….? I checked the APM (Advance Power Management) but its working. Is cooling fan working???? Nalin proposed to uncover the notebook housing. Before that I was sure that fan is not working. Because in all notebooks fan is activating while booting. But in here it doesn’t. Then we started the operation.
You can see fan was jammed (before service) also difficult to operate manually.
Nice…; ) after service.. Fan is working
Next challenge…. Assemble correctly.. ;(
Fix the touch pad
Fixing top layer and keyboard
My gratitude to Nalin for his straight forward and spunky decision to de-assemble the notebook.
