Judah, While I didn't repair a company-issued laptop computer myself, I did find online a service manual for the machine, which both surprised and helped me. Some careful and patient Googling may bear fruit for you, particularly regarding safe disassembly.
--daniel On 11/27/06, J. Milgram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for the encouragement. I think you're probably right, time to take matters into my own hands. I finally figured out how to get to the screws that hold the lid together, so at some point I'll open it up and see what I can see. Gotta line up a backup first :) thanks Judah Dan Lenski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm afraid not... *no one* will work on laptops at local shops. And if > they say they will, what they mean is they'll send it back to the > manufacturer for repair, and slap on an extra fee for you. And if you > get the manufacturer to repair it, they'll just be replacing parts. > > If you want to keep an old laptop going, the only thing to do is to > repair it yourself. I've repaired a laptop display, replaced a laptop > touchpad cable, cleaned out a fan, soldered a power connector back to > the motherboard, and otherwise voided my warranty repeatedly. > > But it has kept my 4.5 year old laptop going, at least... > > Dan > > On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 13:54 -0500, J. Milgram wrote: > > Anyone know a place locally that'll work on a laptop? The display on my > > Averatec is getting wanky but it's acting like a loose connection so > > there's hope that it'll be easy enough to fix to make it worthwhile. > > > > thanks... > > Judah >
