Re: Bent Pins, Lost Screws

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Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:26:43 -0500
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

Robert L Cochran wrote:
> 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?

Clear out an area where you can definitely see and hear the screw fall. Dismantle the machine as far as possible and give it a good shake, in all different directions and orientations.

A corollary to Murphy's Law says a screw will always fall so as to cause the most damage. If you haven't been bitten by this yet, you will. So I too recommend not powering up the computer again until you find the screw.

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