Notice that the screw locations are marked with white triangles. If you look in the laptop casing, you’ll see those brass screw anchors. No one’s going to walk you through it though… because you want to walk down a new path… taking some unknown laptop hardware and fitting it into some unknown laptop shell. because you want to try to custom fit something inside a case, that wasn’t made to have anything custom fit inside it.Ĭan it be done? Absolutely. There are no guides for doing what you want to do…. Even the location and number of screws holding the motherboard down contribute to the structural rigidity of the laptop. They decide what they want it to look like, they fit in the components they want, they shape the motherboard according to the available space. or pushing the optical drive up slightly… or moving the card reader to the front.Įvery new model line is almost treated like a new creation. Could be just moving the USB one centimeter, or going from a four LED to a three LED…. Sure, some companies will try to recycle some design commonalities, but those will only last two… maybe three model lines before every individual element has been changed for another. which varies in width and connection location from laptop model to laptop model.Įach model series is custom-made. This is opposed to most other systems that have the actual power button on a small daughterboard, connected by a ribbon cable…. The plastic finger pad for the button has a long extension on the end to reach it. the Toshiba A75 I talk about has the power button actually on the motherboard. Ever notice that no two have USB ports in the same places? How about the LED power lights? Ever notice how none of them have them in the same places? Power buttons. Have you actually looked at two or three different model laptops at one time? How about pictures of different laptops. This is the size and shape of the motherboard, where the screw mounts are, where the fan will be… where the connectors and USB ports will be, etc. Not crazy about the grammar, but still, they come up with the design specifications for that model line, and they have the motherboard made by the company that fits their needs at the time. This information is confidential and I will not be able to share it with you. They are proprietary motherboards that do not have corresponding model number as they are Dell's designs that are custom manufactured by various manufacturers depending on our logistics. There isn’t even just one manufacturer they use to make their motherboards. You might be feeling some anxiety right now, dying to tell me how aware you already are that they are different.ĭell contracts out to have the motherboards made for their computers. But first… you really need to accept and trust me on this. Did you ever see the movie version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? Remember how Zaphod had to be told that Buttons Aren’t Toys, so he didn’t keep hitting them and screwing things up? You need to understand that laptops are not desktops.
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