So Dan, Is there a discrete power supply or is it also integrated directly into the main circuit board?
Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Rossi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 9:53 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] The guts of a laptop > Recently, Teresa and I attempted to revive her laptop with a bit of > surgery. There are a lot of screws, a lot of plastic clips, and > everything is quite tiny. There isn't a lot to see in there, mostly just > looks like a mother board. > > We attempted to fix a fan / heat sink issue. On this particular model the > heat sink actually moved back and forth like a thermostat. As things > heated up, the heat sink would move and contact a switch that would then > turn on the fans. We picked up new fans and a new heat sink assembly, but > unfortunately, neither part came with the switch which is what I believe > is wrong with the thing. > > There were ribbon cable connectors for the keyboard and monitor. I was > impressed by just how thin and small all the components were. The > keyboard is nothing more than a thick piece of Aluminum foil. the fans > were about 1.25 inches in diameter and about 0.25 inches thick. > > We actually managed to take the thing apart and put it back together twice > but it was still overheating as the fan would never kick on so after about > ten minutes of use it would die again. > > Anyway, just thought I'd toss that out since Dale was wondering what the > inside of a laptop might look like. > > -- > Blue skies. > Dan Rossi > Carnegie Mellon University. > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: (412) 268-9081 > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. > http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml > > Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From > Various List Members At The Following Address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > Visit the new archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.7/436 - Release Date: 1/09/2006 > To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following Address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
