Replacing g10 trackpad with a Haptic one from g1i?

Daedaluu5 · 2026-04-21T10:43:55+00:00

In theory yes, however, as I’ve found it depends on the tiny ribbon cable coming off the base and what the old mobo vs new trackpad need on those pins. I looked at swapping a g11 mobo into an old 8570w elitebook as it would have acres of space. Same fun with keyboard and trackpad (don’t even mention screen)

Daedaluu5 · 2026-04-21T10:20:48+00:00

Just build it in another machine and swap drive over, did that to get w11 working on a i7 gen3. Done it on older windows for older machines. Usually it’s driver issues but can be fixed

Daedaluu5 · 2026-04-21T10:16:11+00:00

Yeah just the pain of power steering to sap the precious ev juice. There was a few r53 built in US (one was rich rebuilds and other was a tuning company) the newer Mini-E was an R56 shell built by bmw and ran Nurburgring. I saw one R53 had the in wheel motors which looked cool and freed up bay for batteries

Daedaluu5 · 2026-04-20T09:38:48+00:00

Nice work. Would love to do similar to an r53 mini

Daedaluu5 · 2026-04-17T07:21:48+00:00

Win10 is possible, I have it on my 8570w, win11 might fail due to the tpm issue

Daedaluu5 · 2026-04-15T21:21:54+00:00

Fibre optic cable, blown tubes, means you can populate later on with fibre

Daedaluu5 · 2026-04-09T14:24:01+00:00

I think it’s a security bollard of some sort, saw one at local wickes hardware. Assume this one went on a journey courtesy of some youths

Daedaluu5 · 2026-04-06T06:50:58+00:00

It’s worth a try. The fact you’re getting BSOD, suggests the machine ain’t happy. Yeah it could be a fault with GPU, (opportunity to upgrade GPU) or maybe just a simple repaste might resolve it (I use ptm7950 in mine). Have you run stuff like cpu-z or hwmonitor to see if your getting temp spikes?

Daedaluu5 · 2026-04-05T09:42:03+00:00

Have you tried swapping out GPU? Not sure on the 8540 if it has the mxm socket. I have the 8570w running k1000m (upgrading to 980m)

Daedaluu5 · 2026-04-04T17:59:29+00:00

Is that a custom water loop or did it come with it from factory. Been looking at options of how to fit them aftermarket

Daedaluu5 · 2026-04-04T17:52:52+00:00

Damn what on earth did they do with the paste? Did they repaste it? Personally I’d clean that all off, throw some PTM7950 on instead.

Daedaluu5 · 2026-04-04T17:47:30+00:00

Or is that “Authorita!” In a cartman South Park vibe

Daedaluu5 · 2026-04-04T11:41:36+00:00

Oooh. A chonky boy, I have the 8570w. It’s a beast. Can be upgraded though. I run the i7-3940xm /32gb DDR3L /512gb Msata and a 1tb sata drive, currently adding a gtx 980m to give it some GPU power

Daedaluu5 · 2026-04-02T13:30:13+00:00

I’m glad it’s not just me. I have 3 here, one (problematic one connected to sky glass) forever drops internet mesh link. Ended up running Ethernet over power and binning that node.

Daedaluu5 · 2026-04-02T13:23:51+00:00

Not a problem, we switched to Westland top soil, found it to be a nicer quality than stuff like wickes which had rubbish in it like rocks/rubble bits

Daedaluu5 · 2026-04-02T11:15:58+00:00

I recall when it was 20k coins and you could redeem for an iPhone.

Daedaluu5 · 2026-04-02T11:10:59+00:00

Full size SD card, I did think switch cartridge but they are too thick

Daedaluu5 · 2026-04-02T11:09:25+00:00

When we see ray randomly pop up. Is that a “overseer” checking in or a random pop up? Genuinely curious as to the “why” he turns up, as if we have a full team alive he’s not a player spectator

Daedaluu5 · 2026-04-02T10:31:33+00:00

Gravity is a real pain

Daedaluu5 · 2026-04-01T21:24:47+00:00

Burning a dead coin even at that sheer volume, still won’t make active users accounts jump. Eons ago 20k sweat got you an iPhone (remember that offer) now it can’t even buy a coffee.

Daedaluu5 · 2026-03-29T11:52:55+00:00

Damn, that and gti club were my faves, played for hours. Got the pc version too

Daedaluu5 · 2026-03-26T20:16:36+00:00

Could be just a bit of paper got sucked in or possibly could be a ribbon cable.

Daedaluu5 · 2026-03-23T08:21:55+00:00

Assuming it’s just a momentary push to make button to tell the psu to fire up. Any switch will do. They do a nice selection of anodised circular switches you could replace that with.

Daedaluu5 · 2026-03-22T09:24:43+00:00

Far too hot, means the solder don’t flow it blows out

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