Showing posts with label repair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label repair. Show all posts

Sunday, 14 April 2013

Weekend Project: Miscellaneous

Headphone + Joystick repair.

Both of the equipment is left by former roommate.

Some buttons on panel have no reaction unless you press them firmly. It seems Conductive Rubber under the buttons are dirty.

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Teardown the device.

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Water wash the buttons/rubber and clean the PCB by using eraser.

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Finally, reassemble the joystick and do a test.

 

=================HeadPhone=============

Logitech headphone.

The volume controller has problem. Even very tiny touch on the controller will mute the right hand side speaker.

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Teardown.

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At first, I thought just the right-pass of variable resistor is open circuit. Soldering three new ‘Bridge’ will cross the problem.

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The Bridge (from another headphone dead body~)

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Done. Bridges connected the end-points of tuner

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Unfortunately, annoying buzz and mute problem still exists.

I realized it was not a open circuit, but a short circuit. There is an unexpected connection between Right and Ground cable.

Plan B:

Direct connection, no tuner.

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Tested, all green.

Mission accomplished.

Thursday, 21 February 2013

Three notebook repair in Nov.2012


1. DELL Inspiron
29/Oct/2012
"HDD not found"
Cannot boot the system

Dell's design is quite disgusting, you could only replace the memory from back panel but not HDD.
The HDD is directly fixed on motherboard. After I unmounted the HDD and connect it to my laptop. My laptop could not identify it, totally broken down. The customer said there is no sensitive data in that HDD, no need to do data recovery.

The rests is simple. Buy a brand new HDD, replace the broken one and install OS.



2. Lenovo V460
14/Nov/2012

Overheating issue. Auto-reboot when playing 3D games.
CPU standby Temp = 70 C
When doing pressure testing, both CPU & GPU Temp > 99 C
2 or 3 seconds later, system frozen, no response and then reboot.

Because of the heat pipe radiator is embedded on motherboard, I must disassemble the machine.


Clean and reapply thermal grease.



3. Asus K42Jc (My own laptop)
19/Nov/2012
Remove dust only






Wireless NIC

Empty chip

Reserved space for Bluetooth

Left-Right button of touchpad

Power button and a LED on the left

Heat exchanger with dust

Heat exchanger without dust

Fan


Saturday, 16 February 2013

Mac book Pro Repair: Replace Keyboard & Touch Pad

[Note: disassembling Mac Book Pro requires specific tools and much more patients.]

This is a 2008 Mac Book Pro (Warranty expired). Dropped to the stairs by the customer. Screen and HDD are okay, but the touch pad cracked and "SDFGHJKL;" on the keyboard didn't work.





Time to work.

Open the back cover

Layout of components

Dusts at outlet



Remove the battery. Now I can access the touch pad. But for the keyboard, more work must be done.

Hitachi HDD


Disconnect all cables


Remove speakers.

Remove DVD-ROM



The mother board.


Need to unscrew the screw to remove this triangle.

Tiny x86/x64 mother board.



The keyboard is behind this plastic mask. This mask is used to reflect the keyboard LED back light.


New keyboard & touch pad from eBay.


Ready.
Lots of screws to work.

They are very small, tiny. Be careful.


Due to there are various types of screws. I wrapped them in paper and draw an assemble map.

There is a small gap on old keyboard panel while the new one doesn't. A grindstone can fix it!