derek wrote:
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:45:37 +0100, "Tim Downie"
wrote:

I recently repaired on of our laptops and was feeling pretty chuffed
at managing it. Unfortunately, the laptop (an Acer Travelmate 202T)
has decided to stop working again. The original problem was that
the PCMCIA socket had stopped working and I found two loose screws
floating around in my laptop that should have been securing the
sockets to the motherboard. I replaced them and it worked fine for
a week.

I pulled it apart again and discovered the root cause of the problem
(which I had missed last time) is that an overheating card has
damaged the plastic around the pins at the back of the socket.
Fixing the existing card doesn't look possible and ACER don't sell
spares for laptops of this age (made in 2001).

Short of buying a used 202T for spares from e-Bay, has anyone any
suggestions where I might get a replacement?

TIA

Seaching Google for acer laptop spares yields 12,900 hits from the UK.

DG

Thank you. That would never have occured to me.

Having started with Acer themselves and working down to the people who now
do the repairs for Acer, I've drawn a blank as far as this particular spare
part is concerned. I was hoping to hear from someone who actually *knew*
something helpful (rather than from bored smug gits).

Tim