Some of you may know that my optical disk drive on my laptop was undetected, and it became a huge problem for me, but I foundout what was wrong with it, and I thought cause this was a huge problem for myself, I thought I'd do a tutorial to help others out there with the same problem. (My optical disk drive is dead, and I need to buy a new one)

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NOTE: I forgot to mention sometimes it may be a hardware issue where you're motherboard is bad, and may need to be replaced, or you may just haft to fix a cable.

And in case how you change the motherboard in a laptop?
Even fix the cable seems a quite complex and delicate operation

I have no much problem to open ,split in pieces and recompose a desktop but as far for laptop they usually seems carefully built in a way to exclude any chance of user modification (except change HD or Ram )

I don't know how to change the motherboard in a laptop yet, I'm pretty sure you'll haft to take everything out, screws, keyboard, monitor, etc: etc: so you can take the motherboard, out and get a new one, but it may differ between different netbooks, and notebooks. I usually design a schematic so I know where goes where just encase I forget. (I really wish laptops come with one though)

What do you think about my new change of how I'm doing my tutorials???

Great information! I recommend exporting a copy of the selected regitry key, BEFORE making any change to your registry! If you do it wrong, your computer could go toes up. I would add a disclaimer to this effect in your video.

Having taken apart my laptop (thinkpad), I can heavily recommend having access to the technical service manual from the manufacturer, lots of patience and a very careful track of which screws go where. A laptop is literally a 3D-puzzle of overlapping components, and it's non-trivial to figure out which parts to remove to access a particular component. I was for example interested in examining the screen connectors and ended up having to remove almost everything before those became accessible.
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I take mine to someone else .. lol
problem solved, with a warranty.

Yes Mike i would follow Gregs advice and add a disclaimer to your info.
I do like the new video cast though.Cool presentation.

I'll add it into the description in a few minutes (Working on getting Linux on a flash drive, cause I formatted the wrong flash drive, and I'm using the Universal USB Installer. I like this option better instead of using up a bunch of blank cd's like I've been doing.)


Not every laptop comes with a service manual though, my laptop didn't even come with a recovery disk. I'm very familiar with laptops, and have taken them apart plenty of times, and put them back together fixing whatever it is that had to be fixed (inverter was a pain in the a$$, however the schematic I mentioned before becomes a big help for myself anyway, I'm not sure if others know how to make one or not) however sometimes I forget that most people aren't familiar with laptops like I am, and most people I know are more familiar with a desktop, in which I don't know much about (only messed with a desktop once or twice)


Thanks! I personally only have someone look at my computer when it's the last option. Computer repair shops have been my enemy all 2 times, and I'm not making anymore mistakes on them to fix anything again. I got the brains, so I can do it, especially if it's my computer. however money is something I don't have. Some people are lucky though, and don't haft to worry about that.

Problem with laptop is that any model has its own 3D puzzle to recompose

I took apart one i had (repairman suggestion was to trow in a garbage can, at that point i thought i can have some fun to see how was inside and in worst case put in a garbage after spitted in part ) but i will not risk with a better

That's why you make your own schematic when taking it apart so you know how to put it back together. Toshiba's and Dell's are probably the laptops I hate the most, especially Dell's (I hate thoughs)

I was asked before on a tutorial on making a schematic for this, but idk how I'd present the tutorial yet.

how to make a workable schematic...maybe a topic for one of your tutorials?

Yes how you do a schematic?...i tryed to take photos , and that helps, but is insufficent

At least for the laptops I've had, I've always been able to find the service manuals online (those never comes with the laptop, they are references intended for repair shops and guarantee service people). But sure, taking careful note where everything is before taking things apart is also a solution. For a schematic, I'd simply use paper and pen ...
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