2004 Advent 7081 Laptop Teardown
ID: 79674
Description: I was only six when my parents introduced me to...
Steps:
- Firstly, out comes the battery. just a lock and a switch much like modern laptops which still have a replaceable batteries.
- The broken left mouse button on my machine also gets removed since the sellotape holding it in would probably annoy me later.
- Two phillips 0 screws hold down the panel hiding the hard drive from view.
- It is a Seagate 40GB model which appears user upgradeable... It's even mounted to a quick-release drive caddy.
- Attempting to free the drive from the cage we find the first warranty sticker. All this means is I'm headed in the right direction!
- Two annoying screws later and the drive slips free of its hot-swap cage.
- Only a single screw this time... and we're in.
- W e are greeted with a 256MB DDR SODIMM. This could have been upgraded to 1GB back in the day.
- One of the screws here is screwed into a cracked hole in the panel. I guess living with two young children, as my brother and I were at the time, will have taken its toll.
- The intake fan is remarkably clean given the amount of use... I can remember this thing howling under a heavy load.
- Many screws hold the bottom panel tohether, inclusing one deeply set in the plastic, requiring a long-shaft screwdriver.
- One of the screws holding the optical drive in place needed to be drilled out since it would not come loose.
- Unfortunately something wouldn't budge and I was not able to pull the cover off any further with my (lack of) expertise. Don't worry there's still one more thing of interest.
- After removing the heatsink we get to see the CPU - an intel celeron M350 clocked at 1.34 GHz.
- It has an unusual screw-actuated lock, which can be released to allow the CPU to be removed.