Home / 2004 / Project Toshiba 49
Post date / 2011 / Week 10
- Using the trusty soldering iron, I secure the remainder of the leads in place, adding excessive amounts of solder for later.
- This is the fun part where I go crazy with a pair of snips... unleashing untold fury upon the motherboard of doom (pretty much a
- The usb port isn't quite lined up, and I was concerned that a usb device would not fit into the hole.
- The problem is that the female power connector is loose. A local guy found this out by ripping the laptop apart. I reassembled
- The picture showing the wires being placed in the laptop came out pretty horrible. I'll put them up here later for reference.
- The hinge on this side is in good working order, as compared to the other side.
- The hard drive generally comes out first, and there are two screws in the light bar to worry about.
- The first thing to remove is the bezel between the keyboard and screen.
- The computer was put together in reverse order it was taken apart. Here, we see the half-assembled computer turning on, proof t
- Remove the screws from the top of the keyboard.
- Rage spent, I clean up with the ol' shop vac.
- Place the keyboard on the laptop upside, connect the cables and rotate down.
- One mutilated ac/dc adapter suitable for this laptop... check.
- Old school screenshot showing the floppy drive containing files and the cd-rom containing folders. I had checked a few seconds
- Notice that the screws for the protective bracket are the long ones... first we've seen so far.