Saturday, November 03, 2012

He seems to be having fun

Sadly, there are only two pictures, or maybe it's fortunately. Because Acer laptops are a major pain to open up. It's almost impossible to put it back together. In fact I think that it would be impossible for a normal geek unless you have the right tools to stick all the connectors together again. And I can't believe I totally forgot to take a show with all the parts disassembled. Oh well, there'll be a next time.

Oh, the story. My friend's laptop went kaput on him. He wanted to try opening it up, so I was there to  help if there are places where he can't open. It was a major waste of time, but oh well other friends came over and hung out too.

Of course, at the end of this, we threw the board away. Not because it is useless, but because the effort I'm going to spend figuring out how to get it back working, is not worth it. I rather spent some money and get a new board with everything labelled with manual, yes, always RTFM.

Till then, I need to use my energy on something more productive.

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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Sony VAIO VPCEA16FG

It has been about 2 years or so since I got this. This is the first time I actually opened it up fully. (the other time was just upgrading the HDD to SSD)

My only reason is just to clean it. Mainly because it's running really hot lately and I'm pretty darn sure it's because of the dust building up inside. Surprisingly, there really isn't as much dust as I expected. Probably due to me regularly cleaning it. So here's the unveiling of the internals!

It is, really a lot easier to open up than ACER laptops. I hate ACER laptops due to the way it's constructed. I took a couple more shots for the sake of it.



I noticed something interesting. The way the heat is distributed across is kind of shitty. The orange thingy you see is a copper pipe. It transfers the heat from the presumably graphics chip along with the CPU beside with a separate pipe to the fan/heat sink. It's ingenious, but a really cheaps way of doing it. CHEAPSKATE.

There is... almost no airflow to speak off. At least that's what I can tell from the design of the fan.

It's the moment of "oh, no wonder". Also, if you notice, there are some discolouration in the copper pipes. That's because it probably sustained high temperatures for quite a long period of time. Which causes it to oxidize, as you can see from the darker blotches. That translates to lower conductivity over time.

Of course, my parents wouldn't understand WTF I'm saying, I'll just be waiting for this laptop to fail. Let's hope it doesn't fuck up during something important.

Oh well, this has been an interesting experience for me. 

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