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Laptop hardware troubleshooting: The tools

Laptop hardware troubleshooting: The tools

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Laptop hardware troubleshooting: The tools

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- When it comes to hardware, laptops are in many ways identical to desktop systems, and in other ways very, very different. And in this episode, which I'm going to call "Laptop Hardware Troubleshooting", we're going to be breaking down a couple of laptops here. And I want to be talking about some of the components that you might be replacing within a laptop and then talking about some of the issues that come into play when it comes time to start breaking open one of these things. So a couple of words of wisdom before we even do anything. Number one, use caution. Laptops are all different on the inside. They are going to have gazillions of little screws. They're going to use double-sided tape. They're going to use single-sided tape. They're going to have tiny, little, extremely weak connectors for plugging things in. And you need to really take your time and be careful whenever you're dealing with the inside of a laptop.…

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