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Jun. 21st, 2006
A non-smooth upgrade path
Jun. 21st, 2006 02:23 amOK, that was not the most inspiring experience. Evidently the Acer TravelMate was not made to be disassembled easily. So I'm going to have go the hard way. Fortunately, I discovered that I still have my external CDRW, the one that was brand new in 2001.
...shit, I think I just killed the onboard mouse. Fuck. Opening up Allegra? Such a very bad plan. Very, very, very bad plan. I may have to open it up again in order to fix what I have done. Because the touchpad no longer works, and I do not have a ps/2 mouse handy.
...though I could conceivably drive to Walmart to get one at this hour of the night.
But. Fuck. This is not a good hardware thing to be doing.
I do have a serial mouse. Yay serial mouse. But. Ow. It's not detecting it. ...Something tells me I'm going to be up pretty late.
...shit, I think I just killed the onboard mouse. Fuck. Opening up Allegra? Such a very bad plan. Very, very, very bad plan. I may have to open it up again in order to fix what I have done. Because the touchpad no longer works, and I do not have a ps/2 mouse handy.
...though I could conceivably drive to Walmart to get one at this hour of the night.
But. Fuck. This is not a good hardware thing to be doing.
I do have a serial mouse. Yay serial mouse. But. Ow. It's not detecting it. ...Something tells me I'm going to be up pretty late.
Whee! CD! Mouse!
Jun. 21st, 2006 04:44 amOpened up Allegra again, on instructions from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hachi and http://www.rigacci.org/comp/312T/disassemble/ , and re-attached the mouse cable to where it was supposed to be plugged in. I got a datachisel and finally got the right hinge cover off successfully.
I now have the mouse working again. I have the old CD drive working on it, I think -- I have a floppy drive for mnemosyne!Thalia, and a floppy for Allegra, so I got the drivers for the Acer external CDRW downloaded and installed on Allegra, so now Allegra has a CD drive again. This makes it possible for me to think about installing other things, especially the NIC that I got for it.
NIC might be working, now that I told 98 that it is supposed to know TCP/IP ...
And. OMG. Allegra lives!
Next step: installing the little ...
Woo! Online! With Allegra! New location for computermachine coming right up!
Now I can happily disassemble Mnemosyne!Thalia, put deadbrick!Thalia back together, and ship deadbrick!Thalia back to the BOfD. It'll take me a bit to get Allegra the way I want it to be for my interim machine, but it'll work. Yes indeed. It'll work.
I'm so very tired, but feeling so very satisfied with myself.
hachi and http://www.rigacci.org/comp/312T/disassemble/ , and re-attached the mouse cable to where it was supposed to be plugged in. I got a datachisel and finally got the right hinge cover off successfully. I now have the mouse working again. I have the old CD drive working on it, I think -- I have a floppy drive for mnemosyne!Thalia, and a floppy for Allegra, so I got the drivers for the Acer external CDRW downloaded and installed on Allegra, so now Allegra has a CD drive again. This makes it possible for me to think about installing other things, especially the NIC that I got for it.
NIC might be working, now that I told 98 that it is supposed to know TCP/IP ...
And. OMG. Allegra lives!
Next step: installing the little ...
Woo! Online! With Allegra! New location for computermachine coming right up!
Now I can happily disassemble Mnemosyne!Thalia, put deadbrick!Thalia back together, and ship deadbrick!Thalia back to the BOfD. It'll take me a bit to get Allegra the way I want it to be for my interim machine, but it'll work. Yes indeed. It'll work.
I'm so very tired, but feeling so very satisfied with myself.
