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Goldstar GS620 386sx/20 Sallyanne 05-14-2008
Posted by Sallyanne on May 14, 2008, 3:25 pm
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 I bought a Goldstar GS620 386sx/20 notebook on my way through
Singapore in 1991. It lasted until 1997 and travelled over 200 000 km.
By that time the hard drive had died and the LCD backlight went with
it. Since this was my first PC and for a while my only computer, I
even continued to use it with external monitor and drive until I
upgraded to a desktop. As it happens, after all of these years I
rediscovered this little machine in the abyss of my garage and much to
my amazement, it still works! So in fairness to it, I'd like to fix it
and would like any assistance in opening it up, which I can't seem to
do. A service manual would be nice.

Regards
Sallyanne

Posted by Sallyanne on May 14, 2008, 3:46 pm
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 Just to add ... the GS620 is identical to the Zenith Mastersport
386sx.
Sallyanne

Posted by msg on May 14, 2008, 3:57 pm
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Sallyanne wrote:

> I bought a Goldstar GS620 386sx/20 notebook on my way through
> Singapore in 1991.
<snip>

> I'd like to fix it and would like any assistance in opening
> it up, which I can't seem to do.
<snip>

Hi Sallyanne,

Please post what you have done so far in the disassembly
process; post an url to some hi-res photos of front, rear,
and all sides. FWIW, I have found the mechanics of
case structure easier to deduce on older laptops than the
chinese puzzles often presented by recent models.

Look at some recent threads in this N.G. regarding
disassembly for hints to hidden and clamshell plastic
fasteners too.

Of course, a reader of this thread may already have
experience and disassembly data for this machine, but
as time passes it is less likely such a person will
respond here.

N.B.: consider using an nntp server (like giganews) for
Usenet access; many people are filtering (blocking)
posts from 'googlegroups.com' (Google Groups) due to
unmitigated abuse and spam originating from it.

Michael

Michael

Posted by Sallyanne on May 14, 2008, 4:30 pm
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Hi Michael.
Thanks for those tips. I should use my ISP's excellent news server,
I'm just too lazy to configure everything because I'm never on the
same computer twice in a day.

I really don't expect anyone to be familiar with such an old computer.
LOL, its almost as old as the latest generation of IT personnel.
Nevertheless, as you say, someone may have experience with one...

I only got as far as removing all the screws on the base of the unit,
including the one hidden within the battery recess. Having done so,
the base seems to give a little, but just enough to peek inside. It
won't go any further and I didn't attempt to force the issue. At this
point, I decided to close everything up & seek info online before
proceeding. I will take photos and post these over the next day or so
and see how we go.

Sallyanne

Posted by BillW50 on May 14, 2008, 4:50 pm
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msg typed on Wed, 14 May 2008 14:57:14 -0500:
> Sallyanne wrote:
>
>> I bought a Goldstar GS620 386sx/20 notebook on my way through
>> Singapore in 1991.
> <snip>
>
>> I'd like to fix it and would like any assistance in opening
>> it up, which I can't seem to do.
> <snip>
>
> Hi Sallyanne,
>
> Please post what you have done so far in the disassembly
> process; post an url to some hi-res photos of front, rear,
> and all sides. FWIW, I have found the mechanics of
> case structure easier to deduce on older laptops than the
> chinese puzzles often presented by recent models.
>
> Look at some recent threads in this N.G. regarding
> disassembly for hints to hidden and clamshell plastic
> fasteners too.
>
> Of course, a reader of this thread may already have
> experience and disassembly data for this machine, but
> as time passes it is less likely such a person will
> respond here.
>
> N.B.: consider using an nntp server (like giganews) for
> Usenet access; many people are filtering (blocking)
> posts from 'googlegroups.com' (Google Groups) due to
> unmitigated abuse and spam originating from it.

Oh man! I love these kind of projects (been into computers since '74 in
the military)! I tried to search on Google and I found nothing except
battery replacements. This laptop can use a CGA or a VGA monitor? Does
it have 4MB onboard and a 16MB PCMCIA card?

Usually I find buying a working old same model computer easier to use to
fix an older computer (especially true of laptops). Although I can't
even find a broken one anyway on the net. I sure wish this was my
project. I love these kinds of things to do. :-)

--
Bill



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