cosmetic screw covers that cover nothing
"remove this panel so you can remove that panel so you can slide the
carriage holder and unscrew the fenortnor rods."
"Flex the case in the middle and the undercarriage will drop out."
"Slide the front cover a couple inches left and remove screws, then
turn it around and lift the cover one inch to remove third screw."
"Stroke the front left corner lightly, singing a lullaby, then
flip it
over and scratch at the furry spot in the middle."
An update on my Gateway 610: the
hard drive died. So despite reading horror reports about how hard it is to get to the drive I went ahead and opened it up.
It is friggin horrible, but not as bad as a Macbook Pro, mostly because
Gateway uses the same size screw everywhere. First, you have to disconnect all the cables going to the little board at the base of the stand. The good news is all the plugs are unique except two - the IR cable and the audio input for te
game port. The IT cable is labeled somewhere in the jacket as such, though.
The stand itself is held by six screws under a couple of plastic covers. remove those, remove the stand and get the mass of cables through the small hole. Remove all the screws from the plastic back cover, remove the cover. Remove a few screws holding the RF shield underneath, remove that. Remove the four screws holding and metal spine to which the stand was attached. Under that you can figure things out on your own. It is amazing how Gateway packed the stuff together to create a theramal failure time bomb. The hard drive is essentially at the center of an oven.
I took out the 120 Gb and threw in the only spare drive I had, an old 30Gb WD. Yes, it sounds stupid not to put a new drive, but I did not have the energy to go buy one and in this economy I also did not have the dough to spare.
I put everything back together and decided to try installing Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron instead of Windows, since I had little space to spare in the new (old) hard drive. It works ok. As noted elsewhere, the graphics card in the 610 is weak, so it can barely handle Compiz effects in Hardy Heron.
Getting wireless to work is a pain - note that you have to install the ndiswraper for the Broadcom BCM4306 - a bit tricky; but iyt can be made to work fine.
MythTV is still not working. That is my project for today. I need to load drivers for the Avery Media 150 card and get all the other Myth backend stuff to work. Will post on that later.
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