Wednesday, November 23, 2005

T40 Resurrected

Yo Mat Riders,

For a while, Mat tak ada feeling to blog lah because my IBM suddenly chibaboom. Dunno wat happen man, listening to music sekali frozen. Try to restart but tak boleh man.

So Mat buy new system board lah from ebay. The stupid IBM want to charge like 500 ketul to change my board man. Basket! No warranty already. Alamak! Nevermind, Mat go ebay and buy a better board at half the price. Board fly to Mat from Malaysia man, so funny. Take 2 weeks.

Then Mat realized that with the new board, I need a new fan to cool the graphic card. From 32mb Radeon, now become 128mb FireGL; Mat got the power! Take another 2 weeks. So total 1 month to get the parts.

So now, Mat ready to fix up. Here are some pics lah. At first Mat quite scared one. Scared short circuit something and then need to buy more stuff. Lucky, quite straightforward lah, but still in the end got 1 extra screw..LOL!!!

Lcd




Mobo



Screw the Lcd to mobo



Fix the fan, ram etc



Fix trackpad



Power up!!!



So, actually not very hard lah. Only took Mat 2 hours. And quite fun man. Mat thanks Liteforge for helping him dis-assemble and for the tools. When Mat powered on the laptop, i prayed super hard man.. don't chibaboom! Lucky now working ok. So my advice is when laptop chibaboom, jangan catastrophe man! Relac one korner 1st.

Later,
Mat Love

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