Compressed air! I just KNEW I'd forgotten to pick up something at the hardware store. Right now, for the first time in months I am enjoying the simple pleasure of using my laptop as a laptop and not plugged in and obsessing over a wiggly wire. Once this whirring noise is gone I will do a big clean-up, so much junk on my desktop, unused programs etc.
Congrats on the excellent job of the plug removal, just opening up a lappy fully to clean is a daunting task on many models but to break out the soldering iron and remove parts and re-install is fantastic even though it sound straight forward it always is a bit nerve racking.
Thankyou! I knew I had three options.
1: Ignore the problem and eventually explode with rage over the problem.
2: Buy a new laptop.
3: Fix it myself.
I guess I should feel nervous about opening it up but I don't have a lot of fear when it comes to these things. Fixed my other halfs 'black screen at boot' issue years ago by doing some motherboard jumper maintenance and the machine is still going strong - we recently gave it to a 'silver surfer' friend of ours who uses it every day now.
When I was practising my soldering I got out the motherboard for my old laptop so I may go ahead and strip some stuff off that. The spec is low but I might need them one day as spares, I guess.
I'm definitely impressed! Most laptops are a beast to work on. The *&^%$#@!s who design how to open them up have a mean streak a mile wide and should be condemned to eternity repeatedly disassembling and reassembling them.
Haha I picture a dark room in hell with rows of them crying, screwdrivers churning continuously...
I guess the point is to make them inaccessible to the people using them to prevent fools like me tinkering with the bits inside. Also to increase the likelihood of the manufacturers worthless extended warranty plan being taken out and also to keep techies in jobs (much the same as my Norton antivirus/virus creator conspiracy theory).
The 8th deadly sin - Laptop chassis manufacture.
Hehe, it would have been a lot more painful had I not been blinded with a dark rage that had been building for months.
For the next time (and future readers), try solder wick to remove the solder. It's the stuff that people use to solder miniaturized and BGA components by hand (and remove the mess of solder that doing it by hand causes), so it's pretty close to magic.
Btw, professionals of board recycling use heat guns.
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