Laptop

A place to put info on LAPTOP REPAIRS at Free Geek

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Laptop Class 1/14/2005

Ground Rules:

• Bringing personal laptops into the laptop repair area -- FORBIDDEN
• Removing parts from the laptop repair area -- FORBIDDEN

• Students are committing to:
  • spend ? hours/week doing laptop repair ONLY
  • students are committing to teach future laptop classes

Tools:

Hardware

• grounding strap
• magnifying glass
• set of tiny double headed screwdrivers (weiss sets include torx)
• dental pick
• penlight or small flashlight
• x-acto knife set
• security torx bits - aka tamper proof
• chip puller
• tiny tweezers
• power splitter
• tiny zipties
• ps/2 "Y" - for keyboard + mouse to 1 port on laptop
• jewler's saw
• caliper
• 3 1/2 inch -> 2 1/2 inch hard-drive adapter
• voltmeter (digital)
• fine emery boards
• alcohol pads
• q-tips & alcohol

Software Tools

• Download Knoppix

  http://www.knoppix.net/get.php

  Laptop-HOWTO
  http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/laptops.html

  Download MEPIS Linux  MEPIS.org
  http://www.mepis.org/book/view/1462

TOOLS SOURCES:

• winks hardware - 200 se stark
• frys - wilsonville
• wheeler dealer - 144th & se stark
• andy & bax - 324 se grand
• wacky willys surplus - 2374 nw vaughn

ToDo:

  syllabus, repair howto(s) & triage charts, website to FG's store, wiki
  keeper tags showing: clockspeed (pentium is a given?), ram (slots?), 
   co-processor y/n, hd size, card slots
  standardize software load - "somebody start a sub-group" - instructor
  add more tool sources - also sources to AVOID

The Process

Evaluation:

1. note Printed material on laptop. MfG, MODEL, Serial
2. Google your laptop
3. Test your laptop
4. Document your laptop
      A. FG Asset tags
      B. Mfg
      C. Model number
      D. Proc speed / Mem size / Drive size
5. Repair your Laptop
6. Burn in your laptop.
7. QA someone Elses laptop. 
8. Finish

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Power & Batteries

question from table author: is this useful here? takes up a lot of space, and tables are tricky to edit

Compaq Battery Chart

Mfg	Family	Model	Battery Model	Part#	Type	Volts	Output Amp Hr	Charge Current	Notes
Compaq
Compaq	Armada	7700 7800	Series 2891	220324-101 314939-001	Li Ion	14.4	2.7Ah
Compaq

Dell Battery Chart

Mfg	Family	Model	Battery Model	Part#	Type	Volts	Output Amp Hr	Charge Current	Notes
Dell
Dell	Inspiron	7500	BAT-30IL		LiI	14.8	5100 mAh	2.5A
Dell

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Links

Laptop Links

Linux on Laptops

http://www.linux-laptop.net/

TuxMobil Linux HOWTOs For Mobile Computers http://www.tuxmobil.org/howtos.html

Free laptop schematics http://www.eserviceinfo.com/equipment_type/Notebooks_43.html