Compaq Presario M2000 Laptop vert rolls

[Bovon]

I will still continue to buy a "broke" Compaq M2000 at the Bay to learn how to work on and maybe learn to be proficient with. It will cost more to restore a damaged, possibly misused machine..but education is never cheap. When I was just beginning to build desktops, I spent oodles of unnecessary cash buying crap that didn't work, didn't fit or was in general, a dumb choice.

I would prefer a Toshiba myself, but because there is a Compaq in the family, I will get one of those..I suspect this screen replacement will not be the last time I will need to "serve"...LOL...,besides... I need a laptop like I need (another) hole in my head!

[DanU]

LOL... well I STILL buy way too many unneccesary parts. But the difference is that now when I feel my parts bin has gotten too cluttered, I can put parts up on ebay and get most of my money back

Oh and one thing I did learn from taking two busted laptops and merging them into one working frankenlaptop is that you should orgainze your screws in parts bins as you are diassembling them. These things are held together with bazillions of screws, and somehow I ended up with 4 or 5 "extra" screws after reassembling everything. You'd think that when they were thrown into a single cup, they got cozy and started reproducing

[Bovon]

Before I began this project, I did a lot of Googling for general trouble shooting and repairing this particular Compaq.

The information I found was pretty much generic and the procedures would work with most all laptops I'm sure, but the best one I read had to do with all those bazillion screws.

One guy bought a box of the smallest zip loc baggies he could find...designed for a few cookies in the kids lunch pail, he places screws from a certain area in a baggie, sealed and marked its location on the baggie with a felt tip pen.

On reassembly, he would open a certain baggie that contained the screws for where he was at, at the time..one left over?..he could look for it now..before he moved on.

Most people do not have a nice workbench with parts bins, etc...so those baggies kept things organized...and at the end?..just chunk them..project over, and no waste to store.