Your Motherboard Needs Help and Fast

One fine day, you're workin on your laptop when all of a sudden your laptop starts overheating. And you're wondering , 'heck, I havent had it on that long!" Well, bad news! your motherboard needs help and FAST!  In case you've forgotten, the motherboard is the engine of your laptop. It's the means by which all the hardware components function. I the motherboard starts malfunctioning, all kinds of weird things,ranging from certain components not functioning, to the laptop not booting at all, could occur.

As a matter of fact, there are other factors that could cause the demise of your laptop. They are:bad memory chip, huge power surge from lightning, poor motherboard make. And  a major red flag for a poorly made motherboard are malfunctioning hardware components. So:


How Do We Replace the Motherboard

• First Buy a new motherboard
• Remove the battery and remove all the battery's screws from the lower side of the case with a screw driver
• Pull off the plastic covers covering the RAM modules and hard drives
• Pull the Ram modules out, and then slide the hard drive out
• Pull the CD Drive out of the case and set it aside
• Flip over the laptop and then open the screen lid
• Put the screwdrive on the plastic bezel just below the screen
• Pop off the bezel and remove the laptop.
• Seperate the keyboard from the laptop and disconnect the chord running from the keyboard to the motherboard.
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• Remove the screws holding the fan and the heatsink assembly to the processor.
• Pull the assembly off and set it aside
• Lift the processor and set it outside the laptop case.
• If your laptop has a graphics adaptor, remove  the screws holding the adaptor and remove it from the motherboard
• Now slide the internet card
• Remove any remaining screws holding the laptop's case
• Pull the motherboard out and replace it with the new motherboard
• Now reasseble the  processor, heatsink assembly, and graphics adaptor and wireless card.
• Next, put the RAM hard disk and DVD drive back into the laptop and reattach the screws.
• Sit back while your laptop  reloads the operating system to make sure the new motherboard is spick and span. 

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That's a wrap on "Your Motherboard Needs Help and Fast" I hope you made  sense out of this tutorial. If not, just drop a comment in the comment box. 


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