Journal #8841
Posted 7 years ago2017-07-26 14:06:32 UTC
My laptop is dirty, as all of you know.
I decided to clean it, so I found a screwdriver which came with my mBot, so I can unscrew the screws and take off the cover.
I'm surprised that the main fan is still working.
I couldn't wait to take out the fan and give it a good clean, but:
The bottom-left screw doesn't look good. Looks like its previous owner tried to unscrew this one but he ended up damaging it. :/
Well, I've had an interesting experience, lol.
I wonder what this is:
Lastly, I think that upgrading RAM here won't be that easy:
There are 2 RAM sticks in the laptop, 1GB each.
One has this yellow, translucent tape on one corner while the top one is completely removable. So, I should get a module of 3GB DDR2 RAM, which obviously doesn't exist anywhere in my country. I can, of course, buy a 2GB RAM module, but then my total memory would be 3GB.
Ah well, better something than nothing.
Also, I located the hard disk on my laptop. I don't have a picture of it right now, but it's not that necessary and I don't want to take my laptop apart while it's running. Actually, I might just do that.
flips laptop
Alright, I got it:
Don't bash me for doing this, I was very careful while doing that!
So yeah, I think I could get a 300GB laptop hard drive and replace the old one, couldn't I?
Now I'm wondering, how can I unscrew that damaged screw?
There's the rubber band method, but I don't have any rubber bands that are wide enough. There's the pliers method, but I wouldn't want my dad to know about this. Any suggestions? xd
I decided to clean it, so I found a screwdriver which came with my mBot, so I can unscrew the screws and take off the cover.
I'm surprised that the main fan is still working.
I couldn't wait to take out the fan and give it a good clean, but:
Well, I've had an interesting experience, lol.
I wonder what this is:
Lastly, I think that upgrading RAM here won't be that easy:
There are 2 RAM sticks in the laptop, 1GB each.
One has this yellow, translucent tape on one corner while the top one is completely removable. So, I should get a module of 3GB DDR2 RAM, which obviously doesn't exist anywhere in my country. I can, of course, buy a 2GB RAM module, but then my total memory would be 3GB.
Ah well, better something than nothing.
Also, I located the hard disk on my laptop. I don't have a picture of it right now, but it's not that necessary and I don't want to take my laptop apart while it's running. Actually, I might just do that.
flips laptop
Alright, I got it:
So yeah, I think I could get a 300GB laptop hard drive and replace the old one, couldn't I?
Now I'm wondering, how can I unscrew that damaged screw?
There's the rubber band method, but I don't have any rubber bands that are wide enough. There's the pliers method, but I wouldn't want my dad to know about this. Any suggestions? xd
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About that screw, there's a method I always use when I face such problem. Use a nipper of this type:
And holy shit clean that mess lol.
Also, hopefully you know the proper technique on cleaning electronics.
Of course it is, after what you've done with it. You can't clean that.
I think they don't ship to Bosnia. Lol.
Also, I've got a huge issue - nowhere to buy CO2 cans in Stolac. x(
And I'm just not willing to go to an I.T. store in Mostar just to get one. Ah well, I'll have a reason to go there, once I start buying parts for my PC.
@Alberto309
I think my dad has the nipper from the first image. I'm not sure if he would allow me to use it, lol.
Also, remember what I've said:
The bottom RAM stick has this yellow tape thing on it, so I'm not sure if it should be removed or not. Ah well, whatever happens, it happens.
While writing this, I checked out next.ba, plus.ba and winwin.ba, but apparently none of them have DDR2 RAM for laptops.
Edit:
@DiscoStu
But I only got it in 2014. With me, it's only been collecting dust for 3 years.
If you didn't mean it that way, then tell me what you meant.
"Bosnia And Herzegovina"
But I can't imagine the duties and postage fees...
I checked it. Free shipping to Bosnia and Herzegovina...
https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-Clocked-Graphics-02G-P4-3747-KR/dp/B00KK8MEU6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1501104535&sr=8-3&keywords=nvidia+gt+740+2gb+gddr5
It´s what I have and works like a charm on an even lower powerful system (Quad Core with only 4GB RAM, titles like Wofenstein New Order never go under 45-50 fps).
Checked. Free shipping to Bosnia Herzegovina...
Temporarily out of stock.
Hmm... Maybe it's available wherever you are, but being in the states, you don't get many options.
Even if it did, my father wouldn't allow ordering stuff in that way because he's overly-worried about Internet shopping and doesn't want to risk anything.
Don't try to show it to him though, just let him figure it out on his own.
Look, upgrading my laptop isn't really that necessary. After all, I'll get a new PC in the future.
Also, I'd not really call him paranoid. To me, it's more like opinionated and conservative. Lol.
See, this year in school, I heard my classmates talking about Amazon not shipping stuff to BiH any more, because of... something which gets done to the packages upon their arrival to the country? I weren't surprised.
So, that's why I thought Amazon doesn't ship to Bosnia.
But if they do, well, yay. If they don't, I don't really care, my dad wouldn't probably allow anyway. >:P
Last night, I played Crysis on my laptop (going to post the results at the Now Gaming thread), and suddenly, Firefox stopped responding and its process couldn't be killed. Then I decided to plug in my phone because its battery was around 30% (thankfully, my cousins brought long USB cables so I didn't have to pull the laptop closer to my bed, so it was on the table instead) and take the laptop's charger off to drain the battery.
Next morning, I started charging my laptop and it got stuck on the same screen as in the night before - dark-grey screen with a mouse cursor on it.
So I did a hard shutdown - I held the power button for a while, and then it shut down.
For some reason, I decided to remove the cover again, and I screwed around with the screws again, then I tried to take out the bottom RAM module, and it can't be taken out because it's pretty inaccessible, leave alone the yellow tape on it.
So I put the top module back on, but I didn't do it well, it wasn't all the way in. xd
Then I decided to take out the HDD to see how it's done. Man, I was so careful with it, and I was afraid of even the smallest impact on the HDD. Then I returned it to its place and installed it.
And then, I pressed the power button.
click
wooooooth
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Darn. The main fan was spinning at max speed, but there was no GUI, nothing on the screen.
Then I remembered that I placed the RAM wrongly. xD
I placed both modules properly and I tried again. Nope, same thing.
I did a hard reset on the laptop (removing the battery and all peripherals, then holding the power button for some time, and then placing the battery back and plugging in the charger), but it didn't work.
I believed that my laptop's motherboard broke. :c
I believed that my laptop won't live up to its 10th birthday. :c
But I knew it can't end like this. NOT with me! The average end-loser (I mean, end-user) would give up, but I'm not average. >:P
At some point, hopelessly, I decided to take the HDD out, and:
click
woooo (a pretty quiet one for the fan, actually)
woooooth (and then the main fan starts to sound normal)
I even said some swear words out of happiness, lol.
It was something like this:
"J***m te i mrtvog i živog! Sve ti na svijetu j***m! J**ao ti Bise pr**o! Znao sam da neću naj***ti, majka ti zdrava! ALLAHU EKBEEEEEEEEEER!"
I seriously don't want to translate that, so ask Stojke if you really want to find out. Man, I have never before said more swear words in one day. xD
Then I installed the HDD again and I powered it on.
click
woooth
clack-cluck (must've been the DVD drive :P)
vibration (yup, this is the HDD, it always vibrates upon start-up)
wooooooooooooooo
20 seconds later:
Windows 7 start-up sound
Also, your desktop rocks!!, looks like a sci-fi computer screen.
Business-class Fujitsu laptops are valuable competitors to IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad laptops.
Even though I complain a lot about my laptop, I consider myself lucky to actually have this machine alive and kicking, lol. When I buy parts for my dream PC, I'll try to find some parts to upgrade my laptop with.
Also, thanks for the compliment on my desktop. I'm planning to overhaul my desktop with Rainmeter and a dark, Windows XP theme.
BTW, and talking from personal experience, the first thing I will buy is a cooling pad, it will make your laptop run cooler and will make it last long.
When I buy parts for my PC, I'll also make sure to get a cooling pad.
maybe this is a bit more expensive, but it´s one of the best you can get:
Thermaltake MASSIVE TM
BTW: damn AMAZON... >(
Looks like I might have a chance.
Some items can arrive in my country, then they stay in customs for days, after which they decide to increase the taxes a lot. >:P
So, if an item stays in customs for a long time and doesn't arrive to the consumer, well, somebody (either at customs or the delivery guy) took the package for themselves. Fudge.
But hey, at least you can ask for a refund in that case.
So, it looks like that not all hopes are lost.