Bent Pins, Lost Screws

[jim branagan]

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>On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 22:17:39 -0500, Jeff Kinz <jkinz at kinz.org> wrote:
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>>On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:08:15PM -0500, Robert L Cochran wrote:
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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.
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>>Keep the power off!
>>I suggest continued shaking interspersed with further dis-assembly of
>>the laptop until you find the screw or go mad (whichever comes first).
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>>I wouldn't power the unit back up until I had the screw out.  It could
>>be very costly.
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>>Start with lots of shaking, all directions, all orientations, until you
>>get a rattle, then try to maneuver the little bugger to an opening.
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There are several magnets in there. It could be stuck to one of them, in 
which case shaking won't help. What a pain. From my experience 
disassebling laptops, I'm surprised there's enough extra room in there 
for a screw.