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And the two are made one, whole.
Jan. 4th, 2018 08:05 pmI now have a working laptop! I took both to the compute repair guy on the base after lunch today, and he transplanted the motherboard, battery, hard drive, and did some other internal stuff, in about 3 hours! Amazing what you can do when you know what you're doing and have some experience at it. It would probably have taken me double that, I would have lost screws, forgotten to connect something, and wanted to go on a stabbing spree after I was done.
And he did it for $100!
In my book, that's a good deal. A very good exchange of my dollars for his time.
Everything appears 100%. I've used it for about half an hour tonight playing a little World of Warcraft (some class hall stuff and a few pet battles), and WoW will stress your computer: no problems. I wish he'd left "my" HD in "my" chassis, but no big deal. Probably next month I'll be replacing it with a solid state drive, then doing a Time Machine restore, so I can wait and live without Photoshop on a laptop for a bit. Wireless is obviously working fine, and the battery is charging.
And that's another thing that went bad. The battery that I had in "my" chassis was new, and the guy said that it wasn't taking a charge! So apparently either the failed power manager of my old motherboard fried it, or I was mistaken and my new battery that I bought last year or the year before was in my wife's chassis. I'll take the bottom off the all-but-dead laptop over the weekend and check. I'll check with iFixit and see if there's any warranty on it and when I bought it, it'd be nice if I could get it replaced. Right now, the battery is reporting 99% charge, and I just unplugged it. We'll see how long it thinks it's good for general use under one full charge. It's reporting 2:15 time remaining, which seems about right, so I guess it'll wait until this weekend for me to take apart the other laptop to see what's inside.
And he did it for $100!
In my book, that's a good deal. A very good exchange of my dollars for his time.
Everything appears 100%. I've used it for about half an hour tonight playing a little World of Warcraft (some class hall stuff and a few pet battles), and WoW will stress your computer: no problems. I wish he'd left "my" HD in "my" chassis, but no big deal. Probably next month I'll be replacing it with a solid state drive, then doing a Time Machine restore, so I can wait and live without Photoshop on a laptop for a bit. Wireless is obviously working fine, and the battery is charging.
And that's another thing that went bad. The battery that I had in "my" chassis was new, and the guy said that it wasn't taking a charge! So apparently either the failed power manager of my old motherboard fried it, or I was mistaken and my new battery that I bought last year or the year before was in my wife's chassis. I'll take the bottom off the all-but-dead laptop over the weekend and check. I'll check with iFixit and see if there's any warranty on it and when I bought it, it'd be nice if I could get it replaced. Right now, the battery is reporting 99% charge, and I just unplugged it. We'll see how long it thinks it's good for general use under one full charge. It's reporting 2:15 time remaining, which seems about right, so I guess it'll wait until this weekend for me to take apart the other laptop to see what's inside.
