{"id":2021,"date":"2012-01-11T21:48:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T04:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deathgleaner.wordpress.com\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2012-01-11T21:48:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T04:48:04","slug":"skills-im-thankful-for-knowing-how-to-open-my-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/skills-im-thankful-for-knowing-how-to-open-my-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"Skills I’m thankful for: Knowing how to open my laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Its rare that anyone would loosen the screws on a laptop and take it apart, unless that person so happened to work at a laptop factory or service department. For those who know the skill, it can come in handy sometimes.<\/p>\n

For me, one of those times was today, when I inadvertently spilled red bean soup all over the wrist-rest and keyboard of my laptop. My first reaction: “OH, SHOOT!” Quickly, I ran to the bathroom to get some paper towels and clean up the surface mess. But it was too late: the liquids had already spilled into the laptop.
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\nI hastedly unplugged my laptop and shut it down. With mini-screwdriver in hand, I took the keyboard out. It was a good thing it did that, because a substantial amount of water got under the keyboard onto the keyboard tray. Had I spilled any more soup, the circuitry inside would have been fried.<\/p>\n

But it didn’t stop there: I had to take the top frame of the laptop out, as I noticed liquid seeping in along the seams of the frame. It was a taxing process, and quite time consuming as well. I cleaned out the soup, which, thankfully, did not accumulate in large amounts under the frame.<\/p>\n

Then, it was time to put everything together. Carefully, I put the laptop back together, tightened the screws meticulously, put back the RAM chips, the hard drive, and the CD drive. When I turned on the computer, the fans made a whirring sound, but the screen stayed dark. Three seconds later, the laptop turned off.<\/p>\n

I pressed the power button again. Same effect. Uh oh, I thought. I’m going to have to take this to the repair shop.<\/p>\n

Before succumbing to a costly inspection\/repair, though, I checked the laptop again, starting with the RAM chips. Turns out that one of the RAM chips was incorrectly plugged in, so I re-plugged it in. Time for the moment of truth, Part 2.<\/p>\n

I held my breath. For the first time ever, I was scared to death of pressing the power button. Nevertheless, I went ahead, and closed my eyes.<\/p>\n

The fans whirred. I opened my eyes, and the screen came on. “Starting Windows,” it said.<\/p>\n

Never was I so happy to see that screen. For that half-hour I was almost certain that my laptop was doomed. But thanks to the DIY experts at EHow.com, I didn’t have to spend $100+ on repairs that I could’ve easily done myself!<\/p>\n

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Its rare that anyone would loosen the screws on a laptop and take it apart, unless that person so happened to work at a laptop factory or service department. For those who know the skill, it can come in handy sometimes. For me, one of those times was today, when I inadvertently spilled red bean soup all over the wrist-rest …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Zt3y-wB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}