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M675 disassembly

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5/4/05 at 11:46am
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Can someone please point me in the direction of instructions for disassembly of my Gateway M675 ?

Or maybe just tell me this much...I'm trying to lift off the black plastic of the keyboard, etc....with the purpose of cleaning spilled pop from the mouse buttons by the touchpad. No damage other than the fact that now the left mouse button is pretty much inoperable.

I've successfully pulled the heatsink and fan assembly...now I need to find what I did with my silver goo for the processor...looks like the factory job was not too great....but that has nothing to do with helping with the keyboard issue.

I also successfully pulled one edge of the black plastic piece that surrounds the direct access buttons (power, email, wireless on/off, etc.) and looking at it I can tell that it is not going to snap back on without breaking...I obviously need to do some more disassembly before I can get it back together correctly.

Thanks!!!! for any help you can provide.

A part of me says my wife can just wait...she spilled it. But I would like to be able to use the laptop occasionally too....right now its sitting on the shelf in a half torn apart manner.

Also, if anyone wants pictures of any of the stuff I have pulled apart let me know...I'll be happy to make them available.
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post #2 of 3
5/4/05 at 1:06pm
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Getting closer...thought I'd share this document I found on replacing the keyboard on the M675 :

http://support.gateway.com/s/Manuals/Mobile/8509399.pdf

Figure I'll do that number and if I'm lucky that exposes a handful of screws that allow the keyboard surround to be popped off completely.
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post #3 of 3
6/13/05 at 10:49pm
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Originally Posted by flamedog
Can someone please point me in the direction of instructions for disassembly of my Gateway M675 ?

Or maybe just tell me this much...I'm trying to lift off the black plastic of the keyboard, etc....with the purpose of cleaning spilled pop from the mouse buttons by the touchpad. No damage other than the fact that now the left mouse button is pretty much inoperable.

I've successfully pulled the heatsink and fan assembly...now I need to find what I did with my silver goo for the processor...looks like the factory job was not too great....but that has nothing to do with helping with the keyboard issue.

I also successfully pulled one edge of the black plastic piece that surrounds the direct access buttons (power, email, wireless on/off, etc.) and looking at it I can tell that it is not going to snap back on without breaking...I obviously need to do some more disassembly before I can get it back together correctly.

Thanks!!!! for any help you can provide.

A part of me says my wife can just wait...she spilled it. But I would like to be able to use the laptop occasionally too....right now its sitting on the shelf in a half torn apart manner.

Also, if anyone wants pictures of any of the stuff I have pulled apart let me know...I'll be happy to make them available.
My wife spilled papa johns garlic sauce into her's. the direct access key cover works simply. pop up the end by the gateway logo and then push it towards the DVD rom drive. it simply unhooks and comes off very easy.
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