Laptop

info on LAPTOP REPAIRS at Free Geek

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(Original Laptop Class was on 1/14/2005)

Next class Feb 11 2005

Subjects:

• Damn Small linux install
• FreeDOS
• Great Utils

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Ground Rules:

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

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• Students are committing to:
  • spending 80 hours doing Freegeek laptop repair ONLY
  • teaching future laptop classes at Freegeek

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Troubleshooting

Laptop Evaluation

[Troubleshooting by topic - ThinkPad] http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4YRRG6

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Docks & Port Replicators

Whats the diff?

Port replicators just extend existing connectors

Docks give new functionality.

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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

Thanks TREVOR!

• standardize software load - "somebody start a sub-group" - instructor
• add more tool sources - also sources to AVOID

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