Today I got a special task. Jason told me to remove the mainboard from a IBM Thinkpad R40 and put it into another one. So I had 2 laptops one with a not working display and one bigger laptop with a not working mainboad. The easier way when they would be the same is to exchange the display but that wasn’t the case. Here we go I thought and so I started to take apart the smaller laptop with the not working screen. After a while I decided to search for the service manual to be a bit faster and yes I was faster then. I took the motherboad out of the unit and started with the 2nd laptop. This time without the manual. After nearly 10 minutes I got the motherboard from that laptop. I compared both motherboards and noticed that the one from the bigger laptop has a longer wifi-card slot as the one from the smaller laptop. So I exchanged the wifi-card slot from the motherboards. Afterwards I put all together and checked if the „new“ laptop is working. It got power, it booted, it started windows and here is a working IBM Thinkpad R40.
Tag: 1. Juni 2012
Playing the Guitar
Today seems to be a really good day. After I had to exchange some broken hard drives with Stephen in a hospital on Monday, we passed a music store (Matchetts Music). I told Stephen that I already tried to hire a guitar, because I would really like to play the guitar sometimes. I even thought about buying one but I would have trouble getting it home so I did not.
So after telling Stephen this little story he just said: „I have a guitar, I can lend you mine“. I wast just so happy to hear that and today, he brought the guitar. So I’m really looking forward to have the next four days off and to spend some time on playing the guitar.