This I know. Four years doing electronics.

uh oh.

Thanks Doc but its gonna take awhile. My finances are close to zero. Still unemployed too. Best I get is an occasional job here and there but lately because of the shitty economy they're few and far between.

Caramelized spiders and flies, no doubt.

Can't the laptop store do it for you? Are they still closed?

There's a knack to getting lappies apart... not that I ever figured it out.  My niece had a couple of dead ones and wanted the HDD's removed and destroyed for security purposes.  Yeah, I had to cannibalise them severely... a bit of brute force and ignorance did the trick.  Once the screws were out I just prised them apart, yanked the HDD's and beat sh!t out of them with a 5lb hammer.   Nobody's retrieving any data off of those any time soon.

Yup there's nothing like a smashing good time to lift flagging spirits.

I can't stop laughing.... omg.

The image of a Pirate with a hammer and a mummy duck doing folk dances on a laptop while Uvah looks on, waiting for the 'miracle repair' is too much.

Uvah, you know you could simply call HP and ask for a new Power Adapter.
I have some HP Storage´s and 3 of them already had the same problem those adapters are plain cheap and they also know about that.
Here is what i did i called them told them the exact model i need and they simply sended me 2 without charging me even while i was over my warranty.
( there should be a sticker on the back of the adapter with the model name )

R : We're giving Pilate two days to dismantle the entire apparatus of the Roman Imperialist State and if he doesn't agree immediately we execute her.
R: They've bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had, not just from us, from our fathers and from our fathers' fathers.
S : And from our fathers' fathers' fathers.
R: Yes.
S: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers.
R: All right, Stan. Don't labour the point. And what have they ever given us IN RETURN? (he pauses smugly)
X: The aqueduct?
R: What?
X: The aqueduct.
R: Oh yeah, yeah they gave us that. Yeah. That's true.
MC: And the sanitation!
S: Oh yes ... sanitation, Reg, you remember what the city used to be like.
R: All right, I'll grant you that the aqueduct and the sanitation are two things that the Romans HAVE done ...
M: And the roads ...
R: (sharply) Well YES OBVIOUSLY the roads ... the roads go without saying. But apart from the aqueduct, the sanitation and the roads ...
MC : Irrigation ...
O: Medicine ... Education ... Health
R: Yes ... all right, fair enough ...
MC : And the wine ...
ALL : Oh yes! True!
F: Yeah. That's something we'd really miss if the Romans left, Reg.
MC: Public baths!
S : AND it's safe to walk in the streets at night now.
F: Yes, they certainly know how to keep order ... (general nodding) ... let's face it, they're the only ones who could in a place like this.
(more general murmurs of agreement)
R: All right ... all right ... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order ... what HAVE the Romans ever done for US?
X: Brought peace!

nope i must have missed... well im getting old