I'm still battling my laptop's issues. Periodically it won't start, and when it does start it freezes from time to time. I thought I had narrowed the problem down to the connection with the fan, but I was wrong. Before, I thought the laptop froze when it was moved or pressure was put on the bottom of the case near the fan, today, I noticed that it died while adjusting the screen angle. So I'm wondering if it isn't the screen/video card after all. Yesterday, while investigating the fan angle I took the entire thing apart and removed the motherboard to have a look. Nothing noticeably wrong, though I did notice that the video card seems to be missing a screw. As soon as I can find a screw to replace that one, we'll find out if that has something to do with the problem. After having taken my PowerBook apart I now know why the technicians want $80 to a $100 an hour for working on laptops - they are very very tedious. In any case it is hard to get much work done when the computer keeps dying and takes an hour to get started again. I have a replacement in the works, but there are some issues with it and I don't want to discuss those here at the moment.
