On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:08:15PM -0500, 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.
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).
I wouldn't power the unit back up until I had the screw out. It could
be very costly.
Start with lots of shaking, all directions, all orientations, until you
get a rattle, then try to maneuver the little bugger to an opening.
