{"id":112,"date":"2008-08-20T20:35:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T01:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/?p=112"},"modified":"2023-11-24T14:15:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T18:15:01","slug":"solo-5150-revived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2008\/solo-5150-revived\/","title":{"rendered":"Solo 5150 Revived"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well tonight I took that old laptop that had developed sticky keys (a Gateway Solo 5150) and took it apart (again) to see if I could get it working again.\u00a0 I disconnected the keyboard and cleaned the connectors which were quite dirty, I’m hopeful this will resolve the issue.\u00a0 The machine seems quite happy now, but I’ll give it a few days before claiming total success.<\/p>\n

The last time I had the machine apart and had pulled the keyboard out, I didn’t really manage to get it to fit back in properly.\u00a0 Tonight I found some instructions<\/a> that explained what I had done wrong.<\/p>\n

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The trick is documented on the Gateway site too<\/a>.\u00a0 The keyboard has these very small sliders that lock the bottom half of the keyboard in place (there are 5 in total).\u00a0 The top is held in by some fixed tabs which are pretty obvious if you’ve got the keyboard out as I had.<\/p>\n

Now of course, the AspireOne is still a lot more computer than this old clunky laptop, so it is unlikely we’ll use it very much at this point.\u00a0 I still get a kick out of breathing life (and some amount of useful functionality) back into this old laptop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well tonight I took that old laptop that had developed sticky keys (a Gateway Solo 5150) and took it apart (again) to see if I could get it working again.\u00a0 I disconnected the keyboard and cleaned the connectors which were quite dirty, I’m hopeful this will resolve the issue.\u00a0 The machine seems quite happy now, … Continue reading “Solo 5150 Revived”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/2248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}