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DIY Laptop/ Notebook Computer - Do It Yourself Notebook, Picture TutorialBy Dr. Michael Copyright © Directron.com 2005



Most
of us have built our own desktop and even server computers. Now several
companies offer barebone laptops for consumers/individuals to build
their own laptops. All you need to purchase and put together are:



Then, you'll load the operating system software and add any laptop accessory you may want.

About
two weeks ago, I was fortunate to be invited to Asus' US headquarter in
Fremont, CA to their vendor program, which includes a hands-on training
on assembling a DIY laptop. Although we have been selling the Asus
barebone for a while, this is the first time I have experienced the
process of building a laptop myself.

The process is actually
very simple. With a hard drive pre-loaded with the OS, it took only
about 10-15 minutes to finish the entire assembling process. In
comparison, building a laptop is much easier than building a desktop PC
from scratch, but much like building a desktop from a barebone system
such as Shuttle or Asus cubes. The process is made allot easier because
the motherboard and almost all the cables are pre-connected already.
The engineers already worked out the details for us - the end-user - to
install the memory, CPU, hard drive, and a built-in wire-less network
adapter in this case.

If you can use a relatively small screw driver, you can do it!

Here are some pictures from the entire process.

Picture of the CPU chamber after removing the cover and two screws

A
picture showing the back of the laptop with CPU chamber (open), hard
drive chamber (top left corner, closed), memory/WiFi chamber (middle,
closed), and battery chamber (lower, open).

The
most tricky part is to remove the heat sink and pipe before mounting
the CPU. You have little space to work with. Obviously, you try not to
break anything.

Now I had the fan and heatsink removed and got ready to mount the CPU.

Making sure the CPU is aligned well with the socket.

Tightening the screw on the CPU/socket.

Now the CPU is mounted with the heatsink and fan back in their spaces.

Cover back on the CPU chamber.

Now
working on the memory chamber. The cover is removed by removing one
screw. (Warning: the screws are small. Keep them in a safe space).

Now insert the memory module.

Memory module "happily" inserted.

Now it's time to add the internal WiFi card. This card adds a wireless network adapter to the laptop!

There
are two wires that need to be connected to the WiFi card (one black and
one white). The connectors are a clip-on-bottom type. They are a little
difficult to work with. Since they the WiFi card is not supported well,
it's difficult to push the click-on bottoms onto the card without
putting too much pressure on the card itself. What I did was to place a
screw driver head underneath the card to support it while pushing the
clips.

Now it's time for the hard drive after putting the cover back onto the memory chamber.

The hard drive needs to be mounted onto a bracket first.

Two screws on each side are used to fix the drive to the bracket.

Slide
the drive bracket into the HD chamber with the IDE pins going into the
connector. Push it to make sure the connection is tight. And then ready
for putting the cover back on.

Now I was ready for the battery. I pulled it out from the accessory box.

Battery was inserted. Piece of cake..

Now I was ready to power up this baby! It booted normally the first time! Everyone is happy to see that.

Since
the hard drive was preloaded with OS already, we saved the time for
loading the OS. The entire assembling process took about 10-15 minutes.
It may take longer for people who have never put a computer together or
shorter for those who are really good at building PCs.

.

I
would like to thank Asus for sponsoring such training and the entire
trip, which included a one-day visit to Napa wine country.

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I could make a video myself but theres already a few available



watch this

Tiger How-To: Install a Graphics Card in Your PC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ILrq7lMe...





I could make a video myself but theres already a few available

watch this
Tiger How-To: Install a Graphics Card in Your PC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ILrq7lMe-0

Oh you are the acer guy? the video card may be build into the motherboard and in that case you can't replace it, you would have to replace the whole motherboard. Oh you are the acer guy? the video card may be build into the motherboard and in that case you can't replace it, you would have to replace the whole motherboard.

By the way, we can't share payments, only the solution which is accepted gets 4-6 dollars out from it. Also if no solution is accepted the payment goes to the first guy who answered. By the way, we can't share payments, only the solution which is accepted gets 4-6 dollars out from it. Also if no solution is accepted the payment goes to the first guy who answered.