Bent Pins, Lost Screws

From: Robert L Cochran (cochranb_at_speakeasy.net)
Date: 02/04/05

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    When I installed a new hard drive in my aging Sony Vaio PCG-F350 laptop
    this evening, two tragedies befell me. The worst...shudder!...is that I
    fumbled one of the 3 mounting screws for the hard drive cage on the
    motherboard, and I can't find the darn screw. It's somewhere in the guts
    of the laptop, possibly around the region of the touch pad. So far, the
    motherboard hasn't shorted out or shown strange problems. But the hard
    drive light stays on all the time now -- unusual -- and I had to turn
    off acpi in the 667 kernel. Can anyone suggest how to find a screw
    dropped in a laptop's motherboard area?

    The second problem is that when I removed the IDE connector from the old
    hard drive, I bent 2 of the pins on the old drive. But not too badly. I
    was able to bend one pin back with a jeweler's screwdriver and might be
    able to bend them both back with a needle nose pliers. This is a 6 Gb
    IBM Travelstar drive. Is there a better way to straighten hard drive pins?

    Sony did not make removing a hard drive easy to do with the Vaio
    notebooks in this series. You have to remove the keyboard and then
    unscrew the drive cage from the motherboard.

    Thanks

    Bob Cochran
    Greenbelt, Maryland, USA 

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