From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Agreed with the parts on the floor.

I use a small muffin tin (baking pan) to put the screws from each section
in, starting at the top left and going across on each step. I label the
bins to match the dis-assembly manual diagrams, so that I can go in reverse
order putting it back together.

My first foray into the laptop, to replace the keyboard, showed NO fluid
residue under the keyboard area.  Really looks clean.

At this point, I suspect it's under the wrist rest, touchpad and secondary
mouse switches around the touchpad.  The other odd issue, is it now doesn't
recognize the second bank of ram.  If I put a single set of ram in the
socket that faces the front, it doesn't recognize any ram.  Have to look
closely at that socket with bright light and magnifying glass.

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Glenn M.
"Don Hills"  wrote in message
news:gC+7EtgaXSBZ092yn{at}attglobal.net...
> In article , Randy  wrote:
>>>
>>A long time ago carbon tetrachloride was used to cleam up this kind of
>>disaster....
>
> Water's safer in this case - it's what's used to clean up the boards after
> wave soldering at the plant, and Coke is water soluble.
>
> Just take your time taking it apart, the hard part is remembering which
> length screws go in which holes. A digital camera comes in handy - at each
> stage take a picture, print it out and circle the screw positions on the
> picture (mark the lengths if they differ), then put the screws, picture
> and
> the parts held down by the screws into a ziplock bag. (I keep a stock of
> antistatic bags that hard drives etc came in to hold the electronic
> components within the ziplock bag.) I can get a laptop apart and back
> together without having to do this if I do it in one session, but if it
> has
> to wait a few days before going back together I go the picture and bag
> route. Apart from the memory problem, it means the parts don't get
> scattered. Those little screws can be a right pain to find on the floor.
>
> --
> Don Hills    (dmhills at attglobaldotnet)     Wellington, New Zealand
> "New interface closely resembles Presentation Manager,
> preparing you for the wonders of OS/2!"
>    -- Advertisement on the box for Microsoft Windows 2.11 for 286

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