Hi
I am having a nightmare of a day with my 600/600E project.
I bought a 600E which was fully working but missing hard drive, cd drive, power supply and ram.
It arrived today and I took the above out of my 600 and booted the 600E. All good except the trackpoint does some weird things.
I decided to replace the whole top panel with the one from my 600 as it is in mint condition (well was).
In doing so the top connector for the speakers fell off. The one from the 600E also fell off. Not good. Oh well its only sound. Can hack around this later.
Then there is another connector - a larger one at the top just under where it says 600/600E, well the end came off this too and try as I might I cannot get it back on.
So I am stuck with a 600 top with working trackpoint but broken connector and a 600E top with faulty trackpoint but connector in tact.
At present I am using the 600E top as it works. How can I disable the trackpoint or preferably fix it. I have plugged in a USB mouse but every so often the trackpoint goes mental and takes over the cursor.
Simon Royal
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On 21/07/10 22:39, Simon Royal wrote:
Then there is another connector - a larger one at the top just under where it says 600/600E, well the end came off this too and try as I might I cannot get it back on.
So I am stuck with a 600 top with working trackpoint but broken connector and a 600E top with faulty trackpoint but connector in tact.
Can you give me photos of the connector in question ?
Also I can't remember for sure on that series but some trackpointers are detachable from the keyboard (which is I presume the bit with the damaged connector) and are on the same ribbon via a clamp style zero insertion force ribbon connector...with your track record on these connectors I am hesitant to suggest this but can the working trackpointer module be removed from the now damaged keyboard assembly ?