You know, I used to build fibreoptic circuit boards for a living. That's why this is funny.

[apocalypsos]

Okay, so I think I've figured out why the keyboard and touchpad both aren't working.

I'm probably wrong, but I'm already floating on a high because I figured out why the speakers weren't working. (Dear Compaq, maybe the sound would come out of the long black thing if you'd plug the little wires back into the fucking motherboard. Idiots.)

Anyway, you know when you lift up the motherboard (and I'm only guessing that big flat green thing is the motherboard -- no, really, that subject line is ACTUALLY TRUE), and there's those two flat wire thingies coming out of the laptop from where the keyboard and touchpad controls should logically be? Mine are just taped down. They're not connected to the motherboard. And they should be, right? I mean, they look like they should be stuck in something, and they're not actually IN anything. They're just there.

Does anybody know enough about the internal organs of a laptop to tell me whether or not I'm right? Because if I'm wrong ... well, hell, why is that any sort of surprise? And if I'm right, ha! Then I only have to figure out why my USB ports won't work and I become a god.

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[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just picked it up out of the computer yesterday and I didn't even think about why it wasn't working until I set it down for a day so it could stop frustrating me. Then I sat down it tonight thinking to myself, "Okay, common sense -- if none of them are working, then something's not connected." And that's what I started to look for.

I don't know about the USB ports, though. Not that I really need them to work to use the laptop, but they're on opposite sides of the laptop and I can't figure out why they'd both be fucking up. (Still don't see any spill damage, though. *eye roll*)