[ktvanhorne]

Originally Posted by discardage

I have just brought my NC6000 back from the dead by tightening the fan-screw.

I'd had never opened a laptop before, so the really *hard* part was getting to understand how the zif sockets operate - I yanked the ribbons out without unclipping them and only realised that the clips needed to be tugged upwards for release.

Like you, I found this fix to be very helpful. I fixed my "new" second hand laptop back in March. It worked until last month when I had to tighten the screw again.
However, it is now July, and it is not working again. I have tightened it again, but this time it didn't bring it back to life. I unscrewed the top left screw and scraped the copper contact circle as clean as I could with my little screwdriver and even added some aluminum foil as suggested above. Still nothing.

Any other ideas? My fan screw is starting to strip from me tightening it so much. If there are other ideas, please send them!