Laptop Brain Surgery

[jim_p]

Sometime back, I thought that my laptop power supply was getting flaky

Replaced the power supply, things seemed to get better for a bit, then returned to flakiness. Thought it might be the battery, but a replacement wasn't much better.

Googling around some more, I find that on this model of laptop sometimes the charging circuit goes wonky, necessitating a motherboard replacement.

Found a replacement mobo on eBay, and tonight I did the swap. Laptops, it seems, are built from the motherboard out, so replacing it required a complete teardown. Fortunately, I'd located the service manual online, so I had some guidance undoing and replacing the 65 screws needed for the teardown/rebuild.

I'm amazed that not only did it boot afterwards, but everything's working! Oh, and now the battery charge light stays on...

Comments

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Hooray for fixing stuff!

[muffyjo]

Go you for tech foo!!

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Swank!

[hnybny.livejournal.com]

Yay! I have a bag full of computer parts in the basement for a pc that fried motherboard. I have stuff on the hard drive I want off, but it's quite a project. I might just breakdown and buy one of those usb to hard drive connectors.

[jim-p.livejournal.com]

If you have firewire on any of your systems I have a IDE-to-firewire enclosure I could lend you...

[hnybny.livejournal.com]

Would that would for an internal laptop PC hard drive to a desktop pc?

[jim-p.livejournal.com]

It's for desktop (5.25"/3.5") hard drives but I have a laptop-to-desktop adapter...

[hnybny.livejournal.com]

If I brought the hard drive to you, do you think we could get the info off?

[jim-p.livejournal.com]

Yes, I can do this. I also found a USB drive enclosure that we can use... do you know how big (as in capacity) this disk is?