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elfsIt's been a busy day. Although there wasn't much to our morning, this afternoon Omaha and I went out and did the monthly Costco grocery run, our weekly run to the neighborhood grocery store, a stop at the health food store for large-cut rolled oats, and I got new tires on the car.
Then we settled down to fixing the laptops. I worked on my new one, the T23, which was actually quite easy to do. If you look at the photo, you'll see the progression of stages as I took them in the order recommended by the hardware maintenence manual. At the time this photo was taken, I had stripped it down and removed the monitor. The next two steps involved diassembling the monitor, reseating the cable that ran from the inverter to the monitor, and putting a strip of black electrical tape across it. Then I reassembled the whole thing. What a pain for one little fix. But I'm typing this on the T23 while running a build (firefox) and downloading anime (hentai!), so it's running full-out and doesn't seem about to explode. I'll let it run a day or so and see if it isn't behaved. If it's not, oh well.
Omaha's seems to be a bit more involved. She's trying to replace the power line on an iBook. She's got two of them, both dead in different ways, and she's parting them out in the hopes of getting one Frankenbook that works okay. She's more hardcore about not losing screws: she not only lays them on the sheets of the manual, she tapes them down on photos of the board as she progresses to make sure loose parts don't wander away.
If you look, you'll notice that neither of us are using the static strap. Naughty geeks! But I seem to have gotten away with it.
Then we settled down to fixing the laptops. I worked on my new one, the T23, which was actually quite easy to do. If you look at the photo, you'll see the progression of stages as I took them in the order recommended by the hardware maintenence manual. At the time this photo was taken, I had stripped it down and removed the monitor. The next two steps involved diassembling the monitor, reseating the cable that ran from the inverter to the monitor, and putting a strip of black electrical tape across it. Then I reassembled the whole thing. What a pain for one little fix. But I'm typing this on the T23 while running a build (firefox) and downloading anime (hentai!), so it's running full-out and doesn't seem about to explode. I'll let it run a day or so and see if it isn't behaved. If it's not, oh well.
Omaha's seems to be a bit more involved. She's trying to replace the power line on an iBook. She's got two of them, both dead in different ways, and she's parting them out in the hopes of getting one Frankenbook that works okay. She's more hardcore about not losing screws: she not only lays them on the sheets of the manual, she tapes them down on photos of the board as she progresses to make sure loose parts don't wander away.
If you look, you'll notice that neither of us are using the static strap. Naughty geeks! But I seem to have gotten away with it.
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Date: 2006-05-07 04:24 am (UTC)There are shortcuts the deviate from the HMM for fixing the cable on the back of the LCD, but it's not really for the geek who doesn't take a laptop apart on a very regular basis. I'll be looking forward to hearing if the fix worked! :-)