Heating gun and thermal paste from amazon.com to fix a Nvidia graphic card issue.
Custom glowing logo of a Devil Fruit, at the back of the LCD case (previously HP).
Worn out keys of my keyboard.
Worn out touchpad, don't ask.
A/C adapter stopped working, yes I fixed it also.
Ants got stuck inside the screen!
Ant #1 at the top.
Ant #2 at the bottom.
I opened the screen and cleaned it inside, then added electric tape.
Electric tape around the screen and a Guitar Hero sticker.
More electric tape at the bottom of the screen.
The infamous Devil Fruit.
Scratched bottom from the laptop stand.
Dirty bottom of the fan.
A front view of the laptop with angry birds.
The hardware and the screws.
Mini-battery keeps the bios settings saved.
Primary HDD 500gb with Windows Vista 64x.
Secondary HDD 150gb with Ubunthu 64x.
CD screw on the left, Wifi card and 2x RAM (2gb each).
An OEM Subwoofer for extra bass.
CD/DVD ROM drive..
Wifi network card easy to detach.
Screws where the battery use to be.
Screws visible at the side when detached the CD/DVD ROM.
This just snaps out easily.
Quick launch buttons connections.
Disconnect the cables carefully.
Clean and put it aside.
See the speakers and the keyboard screws.
Very dirty speakers indeed.
Use a small paintbrush to clean the speakers carefully, do not apply pressure.
Keyboard & touchpad cables.
Easy as pie to detach.
Now the speakers.
The brush didn't clean much.
Speakers cable.
Detach the cable.
Round metal circle is the subwoofer.
Wifi cables easy to pull.
Keep pulling the cables carefully.
The speakers detached.
Upside down view.
Clean it with a cleaning agent and cloth, no pressure.
Remember the very dirty speaker?
Some screws.
Upside down keyboard.
This dirty wont come out, is glued from the inside.
Pull the key from a side and see the dirt.
Now that's better.
Easy to pull and clean.
Detailed view.
Spacebar was so dirty.
The spacebar makeover.
Pushing down the keys again.
Press down until you feel a click, then it's in place.
All keys in place.
Clean vs dirty.
Spacebar button snapped out so I sew it and it works even better.
The Screen plug including mic and cam.
There's 2 visible screws and another one in the back.
There 3 more screws on the other side.
LCD screen detached with wifi wires.
Even more electric tape, no mre ants.
See the solver screws and the two black screws on top.
Completely detached.
See the black screws and plugs.
Fan cable unplugged.
Subwoofer cable unplugged.
Audio and USB cables unplugged.
Power cables below the motherboard unplugged.
Base case without motherboard.
Subwoofer, clean it same way as speakers.
Subwoofer close up.
Fan detached.
Dirt at the base.
Very dirty fan.
Clean it same way as speakers, be patient.
Yes be carefull, mine is very old and almost broke.
The 1 cent I put after fixed the graphic card issue.
A lot of dirt in this piece.
Clean it carefully, it's fragile.
Very clean indeed.
The motherboard, use a soft paintbrush.
Plugin back the audio and USB cables, also re-attached modem .
The audio panel (bottom) and USB panel (right).
Re-attached the motherboard.
Theres the touchpad.
Detailed view of touchpad.
Keep attaching stuff back on.
Screen, Wifi cables and speakers re-attached.
Keyboard.
The 3 screws again.
There all done, add the cover and battery.
Back of the laptop screen case.
Teardown and cleanup completed.
