HOWTOs & FAQs about Laptop and Notebook Repairs

Do you want to repair your laptop or notebook? Here are links to HOWTOs, FAQs and manuals.

Curing Different Symptoms

• How to clean a dirty laptop or notebook.
• Dealing with overheating problems of laptops or notebooks.

Generic HOWTOs and FAQs

• Notebook Upgrading, how and why?
• laptop disassemblingGeneric dissectioning instructions, great picture gallery.
• Laptop FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions & Help Regarding Services Notebook Tech answers.
• Generic Laptop Disassembly Tips.
• The taming of the screws - generic take apart instructions for laptops and notebooks.
• general laptop dissassembly tips - intelligent screw management and handling ribbon cables
• IrisVista Guides - What you need to know before you start to disassemble a laptop. What tools you need. How to remove a memory/wireless card. How to disconnect ZIF connectors.
• Ask Laptop Freak: laptop repair answers.

Mailing Lists / News Groups

• YahooGroup: laptoprepair
• NewsGroup: sci.electronics.repair
• NewsGroup: comp.sys.laptops
• Sony VAIO Notebook Computer Memory Issue

Chipset, Pinout, Connector and Electric Circuit Specifications, Manuals

• AllPinOuts: A Wiki For Cable and Connector Pin-Outs
• LED-Museum
• Zytrax: Specifications for almost all electronic devices and accessories.
• Lessons In Electric Circuits -
• The Hardware Book - Internet's largest free collection of connector pinouts and cable descriptions.
• Handbook of hardware pinouts, cables schemes, connectors layouts for computers, cell phones and other devices.
• Electrical Engineering Circuits Archive
• AllManuals: Free manuals for computer and peripheral devices in PDF format

Surface Mounted Devices - SMD Soldering

• SMD Soldering Tutorial: This tutorial will show you just how to solder crazy things like this connector, leadless ICs, etc. There are a very few tools that are required and a handful that are recommended but you'll be able to solder: * SOT23 * TQFP * QFN * Even BGA! * And all the others!
• Surface Mount Technology SMD - A Beginner's Guide (includes soldering instructions).
• SMD Hand Soldering Guide: The purpose of this guide is to introduce SMD (Surface Mount Device) hand soldering. The guide is organized into different methods. Each method is used specifically for a group of SMD components. A simplified list is included with each method to identify which types of SMD components are for the appropriate method.
• Surface mounting with hand-soldering tools