[Cialug] Laptop Repair

[Dan Hockey]

My dell Mini 1011 was about a month old when I added  a 2gig stick ram. It was a pain
because the memory was on the bottom side and the whole mobo had to be removed.
The best part of all this was two screws that were stripped out when it was assembled.
 -dan



--- On Wed, 2/23/11, Tim Champion <timchampion at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Tim Champion <timchampion at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Laptop Repair
To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 1:24 PM

I started in on my g4 iBook once.  I eventually got to the point where I was starting to lose track of what each pile of screws were for, and I re-assembled it (without fixing the problem) before I got too confused.  


Dell laptops are a piece of cake compared to that.  Dell also has excellent online repair manuals.

Tim Champion
timchampion at gmail.com



On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Don Ellis <don.ellis at gmail.com> wrote:

I didn't disassemble my Pismo, but changing the hard drive on it is

MUCH easier than the same operation on a white iBook! I had been

spoiled by my MacBook and my Pismo, so I undertook changing the HD on

an iBook. Total disaster.



Watch for a connector flimsily mounted on the motherboard, with no

obvious way to unplug it without pulling it off the board. Other than

that, it was a royal pain.



--Don Ellis





On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Josh More

<MoreJ at alliancetechnologies.net> wrote:

> It can be really really hard... especially if it's a Mac Pismo.

>

> More seriously, most laptops aren't as actively hostile as the Mac Pismo.  It should take an average person one to two hours to do, especially if you're willing to do the soldering.  The only catch is that if you didn't take it apart, putting it together might be a bit confusing.  If you can locate a take-apart guide for the specific model of laptop, it will be a lot easier.




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