How to open a Compaq Laptop Presario 723 RSH?

onenormalman

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My laptop is dead. I need to open it to check what happened. I remove all the screws at the bottom of if but still can't take it apart. It's somehow stuck in the middle on both sides. Has anyone work with Compaq laptop?

I did try to search for Maintenance & Service Manual with no success.

When I push the power button: power LED is on, hear a click and a spinning/grinding of the HD but the screen stays black and no HD activities or LED for HD. I put the battery in and it's still charging it, I know that because the charging LED is gone after more than an hour. The soft power off function is still working. No beep, nothing on screen, it's stuck before going into the bios: something is prevented not to boot, not sure the CPU fan is running or not. That's why I need to open to see it.

I did try to remove one at the time: hardrive, memory, video card I guess but nothing new occurs. My guess is the CPU fan is not working or something is shorted.

It's stuck at about the SHIFT keys on both sides, something is holding it back. Can I just force to pry it off and with what thing for safe?