I give up

[elfs]

So, after having the laptop for exactly a week, it dies again. I can still get to it, but the screen is once again broken. This time, it appears to be the inverter card. The light comes on, briefly, on startup, and it's brilliant, and then it dies. This is not like the fluorescence failure; this is full-blown inverter card death.

And I can't remove the inverter card. One of the dumbshit things that happened the last time I worked on it is I stripped the screws that hold the inverter card in place.

Now what am I gonna do?

Comments

OH my

[tonyawinter.livejournal.com]

I bet those screws are TINY too...
What I do to remove stripped screws is to try to get a chisel small enough to fit on the head and tap it into the metal with a hammer, then turn... but that may not work with such delicate stuff.

What about putting a drop of super-glue in the hole and then the screwdriver and letting it set before turning then breaking the screwdriver off of the screw?

Re: OH my

[http://users.livejournal.com/dominic-m-/]

the super glue trick ALMOST always works. I used it last time I had to take apart my ps2 controller. But make sure yor very very carefull you dont glue the screw into place.