One Reason Why My Laptop Has Been Rubbish… Dust
Yes, after some terminal-ish spluttering this morning before a cloud of dust turned me into Wile. E. Coyote, I had to strip down the Compaq laptop (again) to find out what’s gone wrong with it. While I’m sure this isn’t the only cause of the recent crashes and blue screens (and of course Ubuntu is Rock Solid, it’s only the dual-boot to XP that goes wah-wah), this has certainly not been helping.
Dust. Lots of dust. So much dust that grey patch above the orange radiator is actually a block of dust and rubbish about an inch long and a 1/4 inch square. Which peeled away in one block.
Let’s see how the little blighter gets on now. I took the chance to switch out the keyboard and pop in a new Bluetooth module (I have a similar Presario V2000 that I use for parts). And while I could go out and just buy a new laptop, there’s a certain pride in just tinkering and keeping the current ‘pair’ of V2000’s ticking along to give me a functional laptop.
Hi,very interested to know how you managed to strip down the compaq laptop as i am trying to remove the covers to get in to trace a fault and i can not work out how to do so.regards stewart.
Stewart, do a Google search for Compaq Presario V2000 Service Manual (sub in your exact model number)and you should find a nicely detailed PDF on the step by step methods.