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OH MY GOD! I took this thing apart today. I have taken hundreds of laptops apart, but never in my life have I seen one so difficult to get the screen off. Well, I finally got it off but little good it did. I can't see much of anything wrong other than the lid was slightly bent. So I bent it back, maybe that was putting pressure on the LCD? Who knows. I'm not even sure if I can get this thing back together. Usually when I take laptops apart I have these little plastic craft cases that I put the screws in and label the tops with a dry-erase marker. Well, a typical laptop like an iBook would require about 25 containers. This unit required 42! I actually had to go buy some more containers. This is a record!
I also noticed that many of the screws inside the lid that hold the LCD to the frame of the lid were completely loose and/or fallen out of their sockets. Is this a normal thing that happens over time? I put them all back in the correct holes and screwed them down.
Honestly, I'm getting the impression that somebody stepped on the corner of this thing at some point, bending the bottom corner of the lid down. No telling what kind of damage that caused.
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