I really hate the tiny fans, poor airflow, and lack of wire routing options in era cases, and am looking to upgrade my P-II system to a fully modern ATX case with all of the above (so: 120mm or 140mm fans, wire routing behind motherboard tray, and lower power supply mount). My catch is, I need to …

It lives! Reassembly was successful. Applying paste to the CPU was definitely worthwhile as the fan no longer insists on running at full speed (just thought that was a quirk of its age). Have to dig out the box and see what accessories there are. I seem to recall it came with a pile of stuff, thus …

I'm so sorry, it's been so long I can't recall the specifics... sorry I can't help much :( Okay, just to add some follow-up for future searches, there ARE two long silver screws from the front side that go through all the way to the back. They're under the top cover panel (that has the model number …

So it turns out it was actually under the system board... Sorry to necro an old post, but I’m trying to get to the CMOS battery in a Acer Travelmate 602TER… and while reading this thread has shown me where I need to look, I have to admit that disassembly of old laptops is not my forte. Basically …