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WHY HAS THOU RIBBON FORSAKEN ME

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Posting to vent, I was so god damn careful pulling a part a friends broken laptop to replace a dead drive. I tip toed around every ribbon cable removal but now there's no touchpad functionality!

 

On a side note, who's great engineering breakthrough was it that decided, "Hey, instead of placing access panels on commonly failing components like EVERY GOD DAMN ONE ELSE, let's make people remove the whole top keyboard assembly to get to the HDD"

Thanks Acer.

 

Ugh, I've ordered a replacement cable already but holy crap that's been an ordeal.

 

I need a beer.

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Yeah, I've run into several laptops where you need to take the keyboard out to change the hard drive / upgrade the RAM. It's pretty annoying and nerve wracking.

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1 minute ago, scottyseng said:

Yeah, I've run into several laptops where you need to take the keyboard out to change the hard drive / upgrade the RAM. It's pretty annoying and nerve wracking.

So damn frustrating, I guess that's due to the never ending slimming of laptops

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that's why i never agree to help anyone i know in real life anymore on a computer issue. So many things can go wrong and in the end you just get the blame...

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Acer is nothing compared to servicing old Sony Vaios. You literally have to remove EVERYTHING to get to ANYTHING. WHO PLACES RAM UNDER THE KEYBOARD?!

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