First post, by Advent-nurse
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Last evening I've spent a good few hours trying to get to the motherboard of my newly acquired 480CDT, but damn that thing is stubborn. Something is keeping the top of the laptop in place, and keeping me from checking out the battery connection (since batteries won't work) and replacing the failing HDD.
Here's the top. The left, middle and right screw holes right beneath the keyboard are where the top is supposed to come off, I think.
The bottom part got off easily; underneath it was the RAM and this other thing, whatever it is.
The left side clicked off fairly quickly as well, but the right side kept giving resistance. I was hesitant to use too much force, so I spent a lot of time fumbling about and removing small stuff from the exposed bit on the front. Later when the right side finally gave in a bit I saw this:
There's a metal plate/strip attached to the underside of the top. At the front, it's still attached to the case. At the back, and on the whole left side, it's not.
Does anybody have any tips on how I should proceed here? Is there something obvious I've missed?
And something else: this thing has a total of four CardBus slots, an infrared sensor, an external floppy slot and a USB port, besides the serial ports. How standard was this and what was the IR sensor used for?
Thanks people!