How to clean cooling fan in Acer Aspire 3003LM laptop

This guide explains how to access and clean the cooling fan in an Acer Aspire 3003LM laptop. Most likely this guide will work for many other Aspire laptops.
Does your laptop shut down without any reason? Does it feel hot on the bottom? Does the cooling fan work all the time and it’s very loud? If you answer yes on all three questions, most likely your laptop experience overheating.

After about

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How to replace or upgrade memory in Acer Aspire 5500 series laptops

This guide explains how to replace or upgrade memory modules in Acer Aspire 5500 series laptop. Thanks to benardcometh.blogspot.com
Fortunately, both memory modules can be easily accessed through the bottom of the laptop. It makes the memory upgrade a five minute procedure.
According to Crucial, Acer Aspire 5500 series laptops can handle up to 4GB RAM total and you can install up to 2GB RAM

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Notebook starts to boot then shuts down and repeats the cycle

When I try to turn on my notebook the key board lights up, it starts to boot then stops, shuts down and repeats the cycle. The screen does not come up during all of this. The cycle is about tree to four seconds long. It has been suggested that the power supply might be bad. What do you think? Also I am having some trouble getting this thing apart to inspect for loose connections. How do I open

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How to fix dead Toshiba Satellite M35X laptop

If your Toshiba Satellite M35X laptop is dead (out of warranty) and you would like to fix it yourself, you should take a look at this post. Apparently there could be a problem with the MAXIM chip witch is located on the motherboard, on the right side from the video cable connector.
Official service centers will list buying a new motherboard as the only solution for this problem. However, a new

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In this guide I explain how to access and replace the web camera in HP Compaq 6730s and 6735s notebooks.
The web camera is mounted inside the display panel above the LCD screen. In order to access and replace the web camera it’s necessary to disassemble the display panel.

Let’s start. First of all turn off the notebook and remove the battery.
STEP 1.
There are four screws securing the LCD bezel

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Toshiba Satellite 1900. Laptop loses power and shuts down without warning.

This email I received from one guy last evening. He had a problem with DC jack on his Toshiba Satellite 1900 laptop and fixed the problem by resoldering the DC jack on the system board. The problem is very similar toToshiba Satellite M30X, M35X, A70 and A75 power jack issue.I finally got around to using the guide you provided to try to solve the problem on my Satellite 1900.
The power plug kept

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Toshiba Satellite A105 battery charging problem

Today I got Toshiba Satellite A105-S2712 for repair with the battery charging problem. It is a new model and we do not have a lot of experience with these laptops. The customer complained that the laptop will not charge the battery when it is plugged into the AC outlet.The laptop failure symptoms:The laptop will not turn on when I try to start it from the battery. When the laptop is turned off

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Toshiba Tecra 8000 series and 9000 series FRU documentation

Here are the links for Toshiba Tecra 8000 and Tecra 9000 FRU (Field Replaceable Unit Documentation). It’s very useful if you want to take your laptop apart. I’m not sure how long these links would be “alive”. These files are in PDF format. When you click on the link, the PDF file should open in a new window. If you have a slow Internet connection it might take some time to download the

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How to remove and replace laptop hard drive

How to remove, replace or upgrade a laptop hard drive. Instructions for the following notebook computers: Compaq, Dell, Gateway, HP (Hewlett Packard), IBM, Micron/MPC, Nec, Toshiba. Very detailed removal and installation guides in PDF format.

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Acer Laptop Service Manuals and FRU Documentation

If you are looking for Acer laptop service manuals, you can download them here. The site is in Russian but all links are in English.You’ll find service manuals and FRU documentation for the following laptops:1. Acer Aspire 1610 Series [ 4.5 Mb ]
2. Acer Aspire 3680 / 5570 / 5580 [ 4.6 Mb ]
3. Acer Aspire 4930 / 4930G Series [ 4.8 Mb ]
4. Acer Aspire 5050 / 3050 Series [ 11.7 Mb ]
5. Acer Aspire

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Dell laptop service manuals. How to remove and replace parts in Dell laptops.

If you want to take apart a Dell laptop you can find very clear step-by-step laptop service manuals on Dell website. Here is the link where you can view or download service manuals for the below listed laptops. You can search Dell database by a service tag located on the bottom of your laptop or by the product model. After you entered the product model, select User Guides and Manuals in Select a

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Repair service manuals for old Toshiba laptops

Here are some laptop repair service manuals for old Toshiba laptops. If you are interested in a specific service manual from the bellow listed models, follow the links:Toshiba Satellite SeriesToshiba Satellite Pro SeriesToshiba Libretto Series
Toshiba Satellite Series
Toshiba Satellite 1555CDS
Toshiba Satellite 1715XCDS
Toshiba Satellite 2060CDS
Toshiba Satellite 2065CDS
Toshiba Satellite

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HP Compaq laptop manuals with step-by-step disassembly instructions

Fixing a HP/Compaq laptop yourself? Need some help with taking the laptop apart? Here are links to manuals with step-by-step disassembly instructions. All these manuals are available from the HP website.Here’s how to get the manual:
1. Follow the link
2. Select your model
3. Go to manuals
4. Find the maintenance and service guide and open it up (pdf file, some of them are huge)
5. Go to Removal

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Service manuals for Sony Vaio laptops

Today I found a great source with service manuals for Sony Vaio VGN series laptops and notebooks. Links to the service manuals were posted on one of the Russian forums (comment 13). Not sure for how long these service manuals will be available for downloads but they are the time of wringing this post. Some files are large and it might take some time to download them, so be patient.Need spare

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