Words of Wisdom from the Voice of Experience

[chhotii]

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.

Comments

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

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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[koshmom.livejournal.com]

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.