So I decided to take my brand new laptop apart, just for kicks, and also because I wanted to remove the modem in there (as a means of internet self control).
So the good news was that the modem was just a stupid dinky little card that plugs out, and I removed that,
But the bad news is... while I was removing that I lost one of the tiny screws somewhere in my laptop!
So I shook for awhile and it just seemed like the thing wouldnt come out, I could hear the screw moving around inside. I decided it would probably be a good idea just to take the whole thing apart at this time (for the fun of it, and to get the dang screw out)
Well.. as it turns out, it LOOKS like you can take your toshiba all the way apart, but truthfully, you can't! There's a stupid spot in the middle where it's stuck down and there is no screw there, I don't know what's holding it. Anyways, I took every other screw off, and then began shaking the thing around again...
and i noticed something:
This time, I couldnt hear the screw shaking around anymore.
Which means either one of two things happened:
1) the screw somehow could have fallen out while I was tinkering with the laptop (Unfortunately I have about the worst carpet possible for finding tiny screws, I already searched pretty hard)
or..
2) the screw must have gotten wedged around inside, in a certain way that it is not moving now.
again.. I've shaken this thing harder and harder, and still no sound.
do you think the screw is still stuck in there?
If it is.. what is the worst that could happen with it in there? could it cause an electrical short, or anything?
Oh and btw, I turned my laptop on after I screwed it all together, and everything seems to be working fine, and the
modem is no longer detected
Although I had the price of the missing screw to pay. And it will drive me insane forever, not knowing if it's in there or not, or thinking about what it could possibly do, if it is in there.
So the good news was that the modem was just a stupid dinky little card that plugs out, and I removed that,
But the bad news is... while I was removing that I lost one of the tiny screws somewhere in my laptop!
So I shook for awhile and it just seemed like the thing wouldnt come out, I could hear the screw moving around inside. I decided it would probably be a good idea just to take the whole thing apart at this time (for the fun of it, and to get the dang screw out)
Well.. as it turns out, it LOOKS like you can take your toshiba all the way apart, but truthfully, you can't! There's a stupid spot in the middle where it's stuck down and there is no screw there, I don't know what's holding it. Anyways, I took every other screw off, and then began shaking the thing around again...
and i noticed something:
This time, I couldnt hear the screw shaking around anymore.
Which means either one of two things happened:
1) the screw somehow could have fallen out while I was tinkering with the laptop (Unfortunately I have about the worst carpet possible for finding tiny screws, I already searched pretty hard)
or..
2) the screw must have gotten wedged around inside, in a certain way that it is not moving now.
again.. I've shaken this thing harder and harder, and still no sound.
do you think the screw is still stuck in there?
If it is.. what is the worst that could happen with it in there? could it cause an electrical short, or anything?
Oh and btw, I turned my laptop on after I screwed it all together, and everything seems to be working fine, and the
modem is no longer detected
Although I had the price of the missing screw to pay. And it will drive me insane forever, not knowing if it's in there or not, or thinking about what it could possibly do, if it is in there.
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