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Rubber shoes will be found on the bottom of the laptop and will also be found on the front
bezel of the screen.
These are the covers that are located onCase Covers
the underside of the laptop. Typically they will individually cover the components separately. For
instance, the hard drive will have its own cover, usually secured by 2 or 4 screw’s, Wi-Fi card
access bay will sometimes have its own cover too. The RAM DIMM slots are always accessible
from case covers and will usually have their own cover. Some laptops will combine the covers into 1
large cover or 2 separate larger covers.
Motherboard
The laptops motherboard is the Main component of a laptop… It usually takes up ¾ of
the inside of the base of the laptop.
DC Jack
This is where you plug the charger cord into
on any laptop. They are typically elongated box shaped having power pins on the rear side and
center… and grounding pins on either sides. I will discuss repair on this part later in this book.
Replacement jacks can be bought off EBay and are all usually under $10 USD per part.
Docking Port
These are used more often in an Office atmosphere rather than the typical home.
RAM
Laptop RAM will be available in different speeds
and usually the laptop will allow the various speeds, though some are BIOS programmed to not
accept anything but the default RAM assigned. For instance, a laptop that was running DDR2 666
speed should be able to also run the next slowest speed of 555/533 and possibly the 444.
Bluetooth card
The internal Bluetooth cards are
not typically integrated into the motherboard, they are usually plugged into the motherboard and