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After disassembling my Presario 2100 to resolder the DC jack, the computer no longer recognizes the touchpad, and the LEDs for 'on/standby' and 'battery charging' no longer work. Strangely, the LED for hard-drive activity does work. The touchpad ribbon cable is connected. I am 99.999% it is seated all the …
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My laptop's PCMCIA socket connection is loose and requires you to press hard underneath the laptop to get a connection. I *think* the problem may be a strip of metallic tape on the motherboard having lost its stickiness (due to age and/or dust). Can I do anything about this? ---------------------------------------------------- …
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Is it possible to repair a PCMCIA slot whose connection to the motherboard is loose? I assume that's the problem: my wireless card won't go on unless you press hard on the case from underneath in just the right spot. Then if you move the computer, the card shuts off …
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Is there such a thing as a connector or adapter that would go in between my laptop's AC jack and the cord's AC plug, and would swivel to prevent the jack from working its way loose from whatever it's soldered to inside the computer? Or even one that doesn't swivel, …
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My laptop's LCD is solid, uniform gray and displays no lines, pixels, characters or other markings. I take it this means the backlight is on, right? What can I do? The computer works completely fine when an external monitor is attached. This happened after I took the laptop apart to …
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To clean dust from the fan of a Compaq Presario 2100, can I vacuum through the vents? If not, is there any way to reach the dust without removing all of the following items, as instructed in HP's service manual? • Hard disk drive (page 2-9) • Keyboard cover (page …
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