A laptop needing help. The Acer K385s, screen rebuild (Part 2)

 Today is tomorrow, and after some rest I set about replacing the front polarizer. Some notes on how it went as I got it on:

1: Do as absolutely perfect a job of cleaning the screen glass as possible before starting. Wash your hands with dish soap, use an air duster to clear any tiny motes. While the film seems to be just gas permeable enough to let you slowly work out bubbles, it's slow going and if you badger it enough you chance leaving scuffs. If there are any bits of dust left on it, they will act as a tent pole to hold a bubble open even if you burnish it til the cows come home.

2: I absolutely forgot to orient the two sheets of polarizer 90 degrees to each other when I put on the front and didn't notice i'd done so until i nearly had the whole screen assembly back together. Turns out in this case it doesn't seem to have mattered appreciably. PHEW!

3: taking photos all along the way is your friend when trying to remember the exact way every bit was originally.

It's not nearly so difficult to see in person, and comparing it with my "before" picture, it's not that much less crap looking anyway. Thank god for modern screen tech.










NEXT! with screen-shenanigans sufficiently sorted, it's time for looking into why this little beaut won't boot. I suspect the floppy drive has a tummy ache, and since the hard drive boots a desktop with a pile of adapters getting it to normal IDE headers, I'm thinking the Dallas clock chip might be borking up the boot process. I've never neutered a dead battery from out of one of those before, and I'll update as that plays out, but I guess before trying to get it any further it'll have to be done. Updates to come....