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thewayneYe gods and little fishes.
I was removing needles from my weekly infusion and had moved my laptop so that it was open 90 degrees and tucked next to the coffee table. Then the dogs ignited because of a horde of deer wandering the neighborhood.
And this is what happened.
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One of the function keys is still missing. At least they didn't break the LCD, and at least I have the time to deal with it tonight.
The problem is that the 'spring' is two nylon parts that provide the resistance, and I don't think they can be put back together once they're torn apart. So I'll be spending a good 30-60 minutes swapping the HD and battery back in to my original laptop to get it going again. My HD has been living in my wife's laptop's body for many months, it's not a bad thing that it's going back in to mine as my screen hinge is in much better shape. I'm VERY thankful that my wife and I both had 2011 MacBook Pro's! 2012 was the last year that you could work on them yourself, the next model year was when they started gluing in everything.
*sigh*
EDIT: took maybe half an hour. Oh: that's three dogs for about 150 lbs: two standard poodles and a blue tick hound. Fortunately I had the three-bladed screw driver as I'd put a new battery in my wife's laptop last year, Apple loves weird screw drivers. I think everything else on a MacBook Pro is a standard Philips #0. I remembered to de-authorize iTunes on the damaged one before I was fully in to the swap, so that was good. And re-authorizing iCloud wasn't as bad as I expected. But what's weird is it comes up on my iPhone (and iPad and iPad (I found a 32 gig iPad 4th gen at a pawn shop last week for $100!)) saying "A computer near Phoenix, AZ is trying to authenticate." That's fine and dandy, but I'm 500 miles from Phoenix! If it said 'near El Paso, TX', that would only be off by 100 miles.
So everything seems OK, and the concentration required to uninstall and reinstall two batteries and two hard drives calmed me right back down.
I was removing needles from my weekly infusion and had moved my laptop so that it was open 90 degrees and tucked next to the coffee table. Then the dogs ignited because of a horde of deer wandering the neighborhood.
And this is what happened.
(click to embiggen)
One of the function keys is still missing. At least they didn't break the LCD, and at least I have the time to deal with it tonight.
The problem is that the 'spring' is two nylon parts that provide the resistance, and I don't think they can be put back together once they're torn apart. So I'll be spending a good 30-60 minutes swapping the HD and battery back in to my original laptop to get it going again. My HD has been living in my wife's laptop's body for many months, it's not a bad thing that it's going back in to mine as my screen hinge is in much better shape. I'm VERY thankful that my wife and I both had 2011 MacBook Pro's! 2012 was the last year that you could work on them yourself, the next model year was when they started gluing in everything.
*sigh*
EDIT: took maybe half an hour. Oh: that's three dogs for about 150 lbs: two standard poodles and a blue tick hound. Fortunately I had the three-bladed screw driver as I'd put a new battery in my wife's laptop last year, Apple loves weird screw drivers. I think everything else on a MacBook Pro is a standard Philips #0. I remembered to de-authorize iTunes on the damaged one before I was fully in to the swap, so that was good. And re-authorizing iCloud wasn't as bad as I expected. But what's weird is it comes up on my iPhone (and iPad and iPad (I found a 32 gig iPad 4th gen at a pawn shop last week for $100!)) saying "A computer near Phoenix, AZ is trying to authenticate." That's fine and dandy, but I'm 500 miles from Phoenix! If it said 'near El Paso, TX', that would only be off by 100 miles.
So everything seems OK, and the concentration required to uninstall and reinstall two batteries and two hard drives calmed me right back down.
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Date: 2017-12-04 12:58 am (UTC)My laptop keyboard is failing in sections, but the dog is not to blame. I'm to the point of using an old USB board, but I need a mouse for more convenience.
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Date: 2017-12-04 01:40 am (UTC)Prior to The Great Tree Incident of '12, my desktop was an older MacBook Pro that had severe enough video problems that it warranted an external monitor, which also brought in to play an external keyboard and mouse. I can't remember if I had an external HD plugged in at the time, but it does seem likely. Then literally lightning struck and a 25' chunk of pine entered the house at high velocity and came closer than we like of making me single again. It fried the sound on the MacBook and actually scorched the MagSafe port! The proceeds from that bought me a factory refurb iMac, which served me quite well until it was stolen Thanksgiving last year. As far as I can see, repairing the keyboard is not an option, and replacing it requires removing ALL of the guts of the unit. I don't know that I'm up for it. I'm thinking it may be time to see about selling it on Ebay.
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Date: 2017-12-04 06:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-04 06:17 am (UTC)Mako
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Date: 2017-12-05 08:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-06 02:57 am (UTC)I was wandering around the base exchange after lunch and found they had a computer repair shop. Guy quoted me about $100 to fix the keyboard, and about a week. So not bad! Much less than replacing the whole keyboard, and I know the actual switches are good. And then over dinner my wife informs me that one of the three responsible for the original disaster wiped the laptop off the dining table, on to the carpeted floor. I have not inspected it for damage. As long as the LCD didn't break, it should be fine.