Re: [cwe-lug] Recycle Legacy Laptop

[Anthony Lordi]

Looked for hidden screws, pried gently, and gave up. Made a flashlight bulb 
extension and worked inside the pci double slot to straighten all scrambled 
pins to my satisfaction. Ran diagnostic floppy which reported "Keyboard 
Failed on repeat time" . All else checked ok. Ran Knoppix and keyboard took 
5+ seconds for each keystroke to show on display, i.e. had to wait 5 seconds 
between each keystroke, and hold stroke for 5 seconds. It was weird. Even 
the bios setup acted the same. Set keystroke to fastest time and it made no 
difference. In my infinite curiosity, what has failed? What happens inside 
the computer when a keyboard entry is initiated?  Has anyone experienced a 
similar failure? Computer knowledge deprived Tony.
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Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 2:32 PM
Subject: [cwe-lug] Recycle Legacy Laptop


Inherited a Digital HiNote VP Laptop Model TS30H S# PJ4WKNOTE, 4GB IBM HD, 
think 64MB memory, Combo Toshiba cdrom and Floppy drives, Digital Lithium 
Ion battery, 14.4V, 2700 mAh, with Pentium and WNT stickers on keyboard. 
Doesn't work, extremely slow and flaky and found PCI card slots have 
scrambled pins inside. Wanted to recycle it and tried to take it apart. 
Took all screws I could find out and still couldn't get at the card 
terminals to straighten them. Never got inside a laptop before, and 
wondered it there are hidden screws somewhere. I quit and decided to ask 
for some open source help. I didn't want to trash it taking it apart.
1. Is it better to get at the insides(PCI card terminals) from the bottom, 
or the keyboard? It looks awfully busy inside.
2. Where does one find hidden screws holding it together? I took all the 
drives and battery out.
3. Any words of  advice?
Tony.

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