Taking my baby apart

Screw by screw.

Literally.

Let me start from the beginning... there was a glitch in the display of my laptop. When tilted at a particular angle, the screen would go blank. There are just some angles my display doesn't like! Maybe its just uncomfortable! So help me god... I tried to cure it of its stubbornness.

The operation theatre was a well-equipped lab... the surgeons a pair of networks engineering students. And of course me, lurking in the background, oohing with every creak, aahing with every crumb of plastic that shed. It was an interminable 45 minutes of holding my breath, at the end of which I was staring at the bits and pieces that made up the guts of my laptop.

We tweaked and we teased. We disconnected and reconnected every connection. Checked every wire. Until there was nothing left to do but put it all back together again.

At the end of the day I have some questions.... what makes a surgery successful? How come you don't get any credit for taking it apart and putting it all back together again? So we didn't solve the problem, but we managed not to create any new ones!!! :D