Yep. I took apart a laptop yesterday. When my grandparents arrived back in town back in May, I was gifted with a laptop. The only catch, was that the video card was a bit.. broke. But everything else worked fine. I actually managed to get the video card to work twice, with a bit of slamming, and glares. Anyway, today, I finally decided to look inside, to see if I could locate the video card. And sure enough, after about half an hour of trying to get into it from the bottom, I noticed a notch on the corner of the keyboard.. pried it up, and pulled a bit.. then the screen came off. With a bit of unscrewing, I removed what I guessed was the video card, which is is, according to a nice article found with google. Now the fun part is gonna be trying to find a video card from a laptop that was manufactured in 2004. Something tells me I’m gonna have a bit of trouble..
Anyway, like an excited noob (I’m a noob when it comes to hardware) I took a few pictures displaying the results of my toils.
Here you can see the motherboard, minus the video card. Interesting note, most of the weight of a laptop comes from the screen. The damn thing is heavy.
And here’s the reason the screen shows nothing, or shows what looks like a spongey substance, moving across the screen. With changing colors, too!
And here’s stuff I unscrewed from the bottom. Also, on top of the CD drive sits the hard drive.
And the screen, keyboard, and the panel that covers the front of the laptop. Yeah, call me idiotic for putting things on the LCD, but they don’t weigh all that much, and there’s only so much room to put things in this house. I mean, I have the bottom of the laptop sitting on a box of canned tomatoes over on the table now..
And here be the screws. The screws in the line were what secured parts to the motherboard. And the little pile of screws is what kept the bottom cover of the laptop on.
Oh, and if you ever dissasemble a laptop that hasn’t had its innards accesable since it was assembled, wear a mask and bring canned air.
Higher resolution images over at my dump.