Do you have an Averatec 3200 laptop? Do you want to know how to take it apart? Check out these photos with instructions. The author of the guide disassembled his laptop in order to repair the power jack.

The following laptop components you can access and remove from the bottom:
1. DVD drive. Simply remove screws securing the DVD drive and pull the drive from the laptop.
2. Memory. This laptop has only one memory slot and it comes with 512MB PC2700 module installed. The laptop specification says that you can install maximum 512MB into this laptop but according to memoryx.net:

Averatec shipping this laptop with the specification of 512MB max, however numerous users have reported success with installing a 1GB module in the machine.

3. Cooling module. Both the heatsink and cooling fan can be accessed and removed through the bottom cover.
4. CPU is located right under the cooling module.

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These instructions will help you add an in internal wireless card into a Fujitsu Lifebook S2020 notebook.

Today’s notebooks all come with the ability to host an internal wireless LAN card. But cost-sensitive buyers may choose to forego that option and later regret it. But as long as you’re willing to do some homework, our How To shows that it’s not that hard to add a WLAN card yourself.

Lifebook S2020 notebook is “Wi-Fi ready” and has a wireless slot and antenna cables installed, it’s just missing the wireless card. In order to go wireless you’ll have to remove the keyboard and mount the card in the slot located under the keyboard.

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This guide will help you take apart a Fujitsu LifeBook V series notebook. It will show how you can remove the hard drive, memory modules, DVD drive and keyboard. Also, I’ll show how you can clean the heat sink. I have created this guide while taking apart a Fujitsu LifeBook V1010.
The badge on the front said “LIFEBOOK V Series” so I assume this guide should work for other modes in the LifeBook V line.
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This repair guide will help you to tighten loose hinges on an Aluminum PowerBook.

If you’ve got an Aluminium Powerbook, they are a great machine, but after a few years the hinge can get a little loose. Thankfully this is not like the old Titanium Powerbooks where the hinge was broken, it is just a matter of a few screws that need to be tightened!

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This tutorial explains how replace screen inverter in a Gateway AKA eMachines laptop. The display panel disassembly procedure will be the same as for many other models.

If I look really close at the screen I can still see that the LCD is still working – it’s just the backlight that’s dead. Not only that but it comes back on briefly (for about a minute) before dying again. Now, there are basically 2 parts to the backlight, the backlight itself and the Inverter Board that supplies power to the bulb.

My comment: This failure is very typical for may different laptop brands and most likely indicates a problem with the inverter board. Backlight bulbs fail too but not as often as inverter boards.

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This tutorial explains how to install more memory into a Samsung Q30 Plus notebook. This notebook comes with 512MB memory (256MB integrated into the motherboard and 256MB module installed in the memory expansion slot). So, there is only one memory slot available for upgrades. You’ll have to remove the original 256MB memory module installed into the memory expansion slot and replace it with a larger stick.

The author of this tutorial was able to upgrade his Samsung Q30 notebook to 2.25GB even though the official site says you cannot install more then 768MB.

Official site will claim – even today – that this notebook cannot be upgraded with more than 512MB of memory, making a grand total of 768MB. Luckily, in this industry nothing is set in stone. When I talked to Samsung tech support, technician was not sure will the board support more than 512MB module or not. Like we have already wrote – nothing is set in stone, so yours truly ordered 2GB DDR2-667 Value stick from Corsair

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Does your Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A1630 laptop overheats and shuts down by itself? The cooling fan runs all the time and it’s noisy? Most likely it happens because the CPU heat sink is clogged with dust witch kills normal airflow through the heat sink. As a result that, the CPU overheats and the laptop shuts down. In order to clean the laptop, you’ll have to take it apart as it shown on this page. It’s not difficult. You’ll have to remove 11 screws securing the cover on the bottom of the laptop and then take the cover off. The CPU heat sink is located under that cover.

Under the cover you’ll find two heat sinks with two fans. The CPU heat sink has copper pipes, it’s located close to the lower left corner. The second heat sink removes heat from the video chip, Northbridge, and some other important chips on the motherboard.

IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO REMOVE THE HEAT SINK FROM THE LAPTOP IN ORDER TO CLEAN IT UP.

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These disassembly instructions will be very useful for all Compal CL50 Intel Centrino notebook owners. The guide for designed to help with the wireless card replacement, but wireless card is buried deep inside the notebook, so basically this guide explains how to take the whole thing apart.
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This guide will help you to replace memory modules in a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo L7300 laptop. In this laptop both memory slots are located under the keyboard, so it will be necessary to remove the keyboard first.

Memory replacement instructions:

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Wondering where to find the hard drive on a Sharp MM20 laptop? The hard drive is hidden inside the laptop and you cannot easily access it from the bottom of the laptop. You’ll have to take the whole thing apart. This tutorial was created especially for this model and explains how to disassemble and get inside a Sharp MM20 laptop.

WARNING! This laptop has a 1.8″ hard drive installed and you cannot use a regular size notebook hard drive in this model.

One thing has always bugged me, though: the small 20GB hard drive. However, there was nothing to be done for it, since the system has a 1.8″ disk and I could not find any replacements — I think these things mostly end up in iPods…

Then, about a month ago, I found the Hitachi C4K60 60GB 1.8″ disk

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