So I went a did a silly thing which was buy a Portable. I've avoided them for years. Heard the horror stories about dead screens, dead hybrid modules, battery problems, yada yada yada...
Anyway, I ignored all the sensible reasons to not own one and bought it anyway.
Non-working and non-backlit, no charger.
It arrived today, and well... the back of the unit was all wet/sticky... not a good sign.
I open it up and yeah, the lead acid battery is all wet on the outer casing. Removed that, put it in a zip lock bag for now.
The 9V battery... yikes... leaking green goo everywhere. We're off to a great start here!
And sure enough, it made a nice mess in the chassis:
So I clipped the 9V battery off, too much gunk there and it also had a bad repair to it.
I carried on with disassembly.
Hmm... sticky residue on the hard drive too. Nice.
Even the speaker has sticky goo on it...
More gunk...
Tearing it down...
Finally...
the logic board...
Actually not too bad... leaky caps but I don't see any trace damage, overall its pretty clean despite the leaking batteries in the machine.
On removal the caps revealed lots of fluid underneath them, not visible at first...
Giving it a good wash..
Bottom case has those cool signatures of the product team...
That's where I'm up to so far, next up is drying the board off after an IPA soak, and putting new capacitors on.
Anyway, I ignored all the sensible reasons to not own one and bought it anyway.
Non-working and non-backlit, no charger.
It arrived today, and well... the back of the unit was all wet/sticky... not a good sign.
I open it up and yeah, the lead acid battery is all wet on the outer casing. Removed that, put it in a zip lock bag for now.
The 9V battery... yikes... leaking green goo everywhere. We're off to a great start here!
And sure enough, it made a nice mess in the chassis:
So I clipped the 9V battery off, too much gunk there and it also had a bad repair to it.
I carried on with disassembly.
Hmm... sticky residue on the hard drive too. Nice.
Even the speaker has sticky goo on it...
More gunk...
Tearing it down...
Finally...
the logic board...
Actually not too bad... leaky caps but I don't see any trace damage, overall its pretty clean despite the leaking batteries in the machine.
On removal the caps revealed lots of fluid underneath them, not visible at first...
Giving it a good wash..
Bottom case has those cool signatures of the product team...
That's where I'm up to so far, next up is drying the board off after an IPA soak, and putting new capacitors on.