I have worked on many a Dell laptop - no special tools required. Just take your time. Sort / label / draw a picture as you take things apart if you need to. You really don't want to try and put it all back together from memory. In many cases, selecting a screw that "looks right" is just wrong wrong wrong. Don't treat this like you would treat homogenous components from a desktop PC. On most Dells (most laptops in general I bet) the trick is to get the keyboard up. Keep in mind that Laptop ribbon cables and the like are far more delicate than on their desktop cousins, so take your time and investigate everything twice.
-----Original Message----- From: Justin Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 3:13 PM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: Dell laptop model PP06-L I've done some work on the CP and CPi model line from several years ago. They were pretty straight forward. They may have instructions on opening it up on their website, it use to be you could enter the asset tag number and dig it up. I'm not sure what their current setup is though. Some also give exploded views of the laptop. btw, I didn't see that model listed on Dell's site. good luck, Justin Skinner http://www.180mph.com Powered by Electricty & NetBSD - http://www.netbsd.org > > On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Greg Brown wrote: > > > My wife works with a guy who owns a dead Dell P4 model PP06-L (big, > > giant beastly tank of a laptop). The motherboard is dead and he says > > that he can get a new one from Dell for a reasonable price. He has > > asked me to replace the motherboard for him. I have never opened a > > dell laptop. Is this something I want to even attempt? I have a > > feeling I'm going to have to deal with special tools, etc. I was just > > curious if anyone had ever tried this before. > > > > Greg > > > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
