Reply #12: Sounds like the adventure I had with my laptop. [View All]

[backscatter712]

Laptops are a lot harder to take apart and put together - lots of very delicate components, little tiny screws, and so on.

But a friend of mine who's more knowledgeable than I helped me do some a necessary tuneup on my laptop. One of the hinges broke on the screen, that turned out to be a complete pain in the ass - we ended up drilling holes in the back shell of the lid because the regular screwholes were broken and literally crumbled. A very ugly hack of a fix, but at least now, I have a functional hinge. Also cleaned out the rest of the laptop - blew out the fan and heat sink, pulled the keyboard and blew the debris out so we didn't have an ant farm (eeewwww!) and generally cleaned it up and made sure everything was well ventilated - very necessary as Core 2 Duo CPUs can get very hot if they're not properly cooled.