I decided on cleaning my laptop fans today, which I’ve been procrastinating for about a year now because of this one screw. But I just can’t seem to open this with my screwdriver, since whatever I did back when I last opened it it’s nearly circular now. Is there a way to unscrew this?
Learn from my mistakes, mask off your laptop’s ports and vents before you do this
Ooof. Not something I’d have thought of myself…
Benefit of your hindsight it’s obvious… lol. How bad were the sparks?
Surprisingly quiet, one little ‘pop’ was the last I heard from that motherboard. On-board power supplies were a reasonable step forward but man are they not fault tolerant
Keyboard too?
Yes