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chhotii ([personal profile] chhotii) wrote2011-12-08 09:53 pm

Words of Wisdom from the Voice of Experience

It is very worth your while to google for the service manual before you disassemble the laptop.

Unless it is you intention to wreck the thing.
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[identity profile] perspicuity.livejournal.com 2011-12-09 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
this is typically true of many things...

but esp in the case of a one computer household... print the manual first :)

been there, done that, had to find another computer...

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[identity profile] koshmom.livejournal.com 2011-12-09 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
I still recall the time I was trying to fix the OS on a PC. The problem I was having was related to accessing a network, any network (internal or external). The resolution, along with automatic you-can't-get-around-this-step was to download the fix from the internet. Yes, to fix my network access problem you had to download the fix using a network. Downloading it via another computer wasn't even an option, not just because I didn't have another computer, but because the fix had to be installed VIA A NETWORK.

How did I get around this? I had to download it to another computer, burn it to a CD, and fake the computer into believing the CD was a networked device. ugh.