Dell Laptop Puzzle

Before I became a network administrator assistant at my high school, I had a reputation among my peers that I could fix anything. So when the IT crew ran into a problem, they would usually ask for my help.

In this case, they had to completely disassemble this Dell laptop to reset the BIOS. For whatever reason, the IT crew couldn’t figure out how to put the laptop back together or didn’t care to do it. So one of them approached me and told me that I could have the laptop if I could put it back together. In just over 30 minutes, I had it back together and booting.

The best part is that I had never taken a laptop apart before and had to figure it out on my own. It was just like a jigsaw puzzle, except I didn’t have a picture to look at. The hardest part was figuring out where all the screws went. So, of course, there were a few leftover.

Images from an archived laptop repair guide.

Note: This great guide wasn’t available until 2010. Trust me, I tried Google first. It is amazing how far the internet has come in the last 10 years.