APPLE has redefined the thin and light machine. Who was not shocked when AIR appeared? But suffering from high prices has always been prohibitive.
Other manufacturers immediately followed up and released a number of products marked with AIR, among which the hummingbird S3 is one of them.
Bare metal weight is only 1.33, plus the power supply weight is only 1.66, so it became my first ultrabook.
Over time, after more than two years of service, its shortcomings are also very obvious:
1, I5 3337U +4 G memory to meet the daily work, but the mechanical hard drive slow performance bottleneck;
2. The loss of the battery is getting worse, and one-third of the power is lost. This makes the ultrabook's real name unreal and the standby time is greatly shortened;
3. The noise of the cooling fan is too high. When using a mechanical hard disk, the hard disk becomes a back-to-back man. When the SSD is replaced, the fan shaft problem is realized.
4, S3 common problem is WIFI signal difference, and the traditional notebook is not the same as the antenna is not designed on the screen frame, is designed in the rear of the base, in addition to the height of the area is too small, the external interface of the S3 is also in the rear of the base , Power, USB3.0 interface to the signal interference.
Based on the above 4 points, the following reconstruction plan is obtained:
1. Replace the SSD and let the program turn on just like the light;
2, replace the battery;
3, replace the CPU cooling fan;
4, transform WIFI antenna.
It was very simple to plan to implement, but ultimately it was not so ideal. After all, S3 appears to be more than 3 years old, and every user is also changing the time, changing the change, the following is the experience of the transformation process, to the late to specify the direction to reduce detours.
1, open the back cover
Because the S3 battery is built-in, a hidden power-off button is specially designed at the bottom, so that the device can disconnect the battery and the risk of live operation during disassembling can be avoided.
2, dismantling the surrounding screws
Today's machines are more and more light and thin, they are not responsible for the design of the past, and they are very easy to disassemble. Only by loosening 12 screws, you can open the back cover.
Comes with a link to dismantle Panasonic's military notebook years ago for difficulty comparison
3, replace the SSD
The hard disk is very easy to replace. I chose Kingston's 128G SSD. The performance is quite satisfactory and the price is reasonable. There is no nitpicking performance requirement because it is a qualitative leap compared to mechanical hard drives.
4, replace the battery
After S3 opens, the battery occupies half of the country
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As long as you loosen the upper screw, you can extract it, the process is very simple, but pay attention to the interface between the battery and the power circuit board
I replaced the original battery, 14 years of "new" battery
However, the strange thing is that after the system is turned on, the system cannot be charged, and the power-off button on the battery will not help.
At the beginning, it was determined that the battery was stored for too long and the battery was dead after the battery was consumed. Contact the seller to reissue it and the result was still there. When the hope is lost, the dead horses become the usual style of the living horse doctors. When they don't know how many times they have smashed, after they have a deep or two shallow, long press the rhythm of the chrysanthemum, rhythmically, Milfs's battery finally rejuvenated the vigor of the girl!
Note: The S3S5S7 has the problem that the battery is not recognized. Please do not identify the battery after purchasing the battery. Don't panic. Turn the chrysanthemum into a sunflower.
(Thank you for the seller’s trust in me. I heard that I didn’t charge. I immediately sent me two batteries for testing. Finally, I did not fail her trust in me. I changed two batteries back to the girls and sent them back to the seller! And to help the seller deal with two hummingbird ultrabooks to replace the battery problem.
Integrity and trust are things people lack now, and I hope that more people will stick to the bottom line for these two words.)
The following information for the new battery, the loss can be ignored, WIN10 energy-saving mode can use about 210 minutes.
5, solve the fan noise
One common problem with ACER Ultrabook is fan noise
Option One: Overall replacement! However, Ma Yun family can not find a new spot, disassemble fans are gambling products, so give up buying, and ACER repair point offer 250! I buy it is 250! Teacher Dong’s fan is 49.
Option Two: Try to disassemble the fan and lubricate. But did not find the starting position, under the premise that there is no replaceable fan, dare not rashly dismantle, no fan is unable to suppress the I5. Therefore only dust can be cleaned.
Option 3: The BIOS adjusts the fan speed. Ma Yunjia really provided a solution to relieve fan noise, and used BIOS to modify the control of the fan speed on the motherboard to reduce noise.
But brushing the BIOS is risky. After all, it's just a five-dollar business. After the seller has fucked up with a big deal, I'll have a light brick.
Finally found a way to not brush the BIOS to change the software, announce the software, you can directly select the auto mode:
The artifacts start running, not limited to ACER models, can reasonably reduce the speed of various notebook fan and ensure the temperature is controlled at normal temperature. After half a month's use, the CPU temperature does not increase significantly when the fan speed is reduced, when the temperature increases. Faster, the fan speed can also be increased rapidly, ensuring that the normal performance of the hardware is not affected by the temperature, and quickly return to quiet after the temperature falls back. You can use it with confidence. When the software is turned off, the fan will be in a helicopter state again.
6, transform the wireless antenna
If the above problems can all be handled through replacement, luck, and flexibility, then the final antenna reconstruction really tests the ability of the hands.
Is the wireless network card in the picture more exotic? That's right! The thinness of ultrabooks has led to an increase in the level of integration. Wireless modules with Bluetooth are embedded in the computer's power board and cannot be replaced. It is impossible to replace a higher-performance AC network card.
Because the whole shell except the slender plastic strip of the base butt, the rest is all metal, the antenna can only hide here and here. But it is sad that the USB 3.0 and power supply ports have also been designed here, and admired ACER's design so that it would be awkward to see the results of Baidu.
To improve the signal, you can only modify the antenna to the screen and try to stay away from the USB3.0 interface and the power supply interface. However, when the B cover of the screen is removed, it is really because the screen is too thin to give up, and the degree of thinness really cannot accommodate an antenna.
The B-cover is very thin, and an antenna also causes it not to close.
Due to the high level of integration, wireless network cards are embedded in the power supply board, and the size of the antenna connector is not a standard connector. As a result, my repeated purchases have failed to buy right. In the end, I chose to abandon the replacement of the antenna. Everyone can save this part of the cost.
Without the Internet, it seems that people have lost their lives. In order to survive, they still have to improve the quality of wireless signals.
The inferior soldering iron technology had to be used to re-join the antenna connector and increase the reliability of the antenna connection. There is also the purchase of shielding material to cover the antenna to reduce signal interference.
The shielding material is a conductive metal tape, and the signal is still not improved after use.
At this time, we thought of the access control card attached to the cell phone. The access control card must be attached to the mobile phone surface to ensure that the reader reads normally. It can be concluded that this material has the effect of absorbing the wave and resisting interference and covering it. Antenna position.
The results are immediate, from -80dBm to -60dBm
After all, there is a wall that is very satisfactory. The following is the transformation effect
Summary: After transformation, S3 has been reborn, hard drive performance bottlenecks - to solve! Battery life is short - solve! Fan noise - solve! Wifi signal problem - solve! It took a while to buy something inappropriate, but also wasted time on receiving batteries because of the special nature of the equipment.
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