(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best laptop replacement parts

I more than appreciate all the responses. Yes it should fit that easily. The OEM cooler on a dell 630i is this:
https://www.amazon.com/Genuine-Dell-Processor-Heatsink-Cooling/dp/B0029OLY1O

Well I added that recommendation to my Amazon cart. I'll order it when I get enough stuff piled in the cart as my usual. Haha. A friend with the same processor and that exact CPU cooler is debating upgrading to watercooling. Maybe I'll push $20 his way. Haha.

Again, Thanks!

I just ordered this 3.5" internal hard drive and I was wondering how I'm going to put it in my computer's disk tray/bay.

I have a coolermaster case and there are only 2 trays inside, 1 for my SSD and 1 for my HDD. They both have plastic rails on each side which I can pinch and pull out of the tray.

It kind of looks like this.

I thought getting a similar drive tray would be better, because then it would be much easier to install the hard drive.

I've also searched for 3.5" drive trays, but I couldn't find any except 3.5" to 2.5" converter trays.

Any help would be appreciated :) !

You're in luck. This model used a harness. http://www.amazon.com/Connector-Toshiba-Satellite-L755-S5308-L755D-S5104/dp/B008A3KHQ6

The part is even cheaper on eBay. Basically what you'll need to do is open up the bottom and find that plug, unplug it and replace it. You may need a bit of hot glue to hold it in place since the plastic looks broken.

It is a little intimidating to open up a laptop but if you go slow, keep track of the screws, and don't force anything (there usually is another screw if it doesn't come apart easily), you'll be fine!

There are helpful videos on YouTube as well, I'm sure. Good luck!

https://www.amazon.com/Cooling-Lenovo-Thinkpad-T410-T410i/dp/B00G9KT484

http://www.insidemylaptop.com/replacing-cooling-fan-in-lenovo-thinkpad-t410-laptop/

I spent about a minute looking this up, so I would do a bit of research to make sure its the right fan for the model and all that, but yeah, pretty cheap and fairly easy to do.

Also, I have a PC that is rather old but I might be able to put a GPU in it. It's current CPU is AMD E-450 dual core (~1.5 GHz), GPU is AMD Radeon HD 6300, 4 GB DDR3 Memory, and the mobo is linked here (https://www.amazon.com/MB-SH207-001-Acer-Aspire-Motherboard-1-65GHz/dp/B01CKETF0E/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493088748&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=Acer+D1F-AD+Motherboard+AMD+A45+DDR3). I'm not sure what my best options are to build a PC that'll run LoL smooth like butter

Joined Reddit just to post this comment. After doing tons of research prior to purchasing an M15 R1 I found this topic of the missing cable/caddy thing to be without a solid answer or resolution. I've seen comments of mixed results with people calling Dell and getting the parts ordered. I have yet to see anyone confirm purchase of parts outside of Dell.... which is where I took a leap of faith with Amazon.


My M15 arrived with 2 1TB SSD drives on the 60whr battery configuration and an empty HDD area in the chassis. I didn't get a cable or anything to mount a 2.5 drive in the laptop despite having the space. I found the cable on Amazon here, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07V84PV2W/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and figured I'd risk $40 to test it out... to my surprise it actually worked. Seller provided the correct cable and I managed to connect a spare 2.5 1TB WD Blue SSD into the M15. The only issue I had was not having a caddy tray to secure the hard drive so I used a spare from another laptop and with some creativity I was able to rig a mount to hold the drive in place. Not the most ideal configuration but I can confirm it's at least possible to have (2) NVME SSD and (1) 2.5 SSD connected to the M15 using the cable from the Amazon link. If anyone can locate the actual caddy/tray that'd be great.

depending on how confident you are in your technical abilities you can replace the board your self. It's not hard it just takes time. Dell uses a billion screws to hold their older laptops together

https://www.amazon.com/Dell-Motherboard-W8N9D-Inspiron-3520/dp/B00N28IINI

also, check craigslist and pawn shops if you're on a tight budget. Most of the time you can find something worth value around.

If you just need something with the internet and basic abilities. the Lenovo 100S at best buy is 179$ right now. if you can go to a store location you can also look and see what they have in their used section. Iv seen Chromebooks go for 150$

Like /u/bcmpdx said, it could just be a hard-drive cable. I went through the same thing about six months ago after upgrading to an SSD. Found out it's some kind of design flaw relating to the placement of the HDD cable itself - the cable rests over top of the HDD so when it gets warm and expands, it causes the cable to stretch. Over time, it ruins the cable (and I'm sure replacing the HDD only helped to progress it's demise).

Anyway, try to boot from an external disk like /u/finderskeepers420 mentioned. You may also try to take out the SSD and connect it via SATA to USB cable to the machine. If it boots that way, you know the SSD itself is fine and can almost certainly know it's the cable.

Check out this article for step-by-step instructions for replacing the cable.

And this is the replacement cable I bought. So far so good. Hope this helps!

>The charger works fine

Do you mean that this same charger works on a different device?

If so, then it is almost definitely an issue with the DC jack on your laptop (the actual port your charger plugs into.) The cables connected to the DC jack are very tightly wrapped around a cable management rail and are prone to breaking/shorting. This is a really common Dell issue.

This should be the correct part.

And here is a pretty good removal guide.

The process isn't very difficult, just tedious and you need to make sure you don't strip the screws. Sometimes they are very snug from the factory.

If you don't think it's the jack, let me know and we'll go from there.

Okay so this board actually has the wifi and bluetooth built in, sadly for you it's an Intel chipset which means it absolutely wont work on Mac and there's zero ways you can get it to work, nobody has ever managed to do it with any Intel chipset.

Even worse this integrated Wifi + bluetooth chipset takes up one of your free M.2 slots on the motherboard, so you wont even be able to add one that actually works without removing your M.2 hard drive or going back to old fashioned SATA. People are moaning about it on the Hackintosh forums LOL:

https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/new-gigabyte-z370n-no-more-wifi-support.235348/

Much better to buy another motherboard with free slots and add the wifi and bluetooth chip yourself, that way if you ever upgrade or Apple decides to drop support for it you can just buy another cheap $15 chip from Amazon, rather than having to build an entire new PC, especially since you want it to last a while.

This is the one most recommended in the community.

It's literally Apple spec so you just plug it in and play, zero messing with drivers, kexts, DSDT's and other nightmares that happen. It will also allow you to use cool things like iMessage, iCloud, Handoff, Airdrop, Apple Store and other things third party adapters might not play nicely with (if at all).

This one is also pretty popular too, but it's not as easy as the last I linked.

To help with typing buy something like this:http://www.amazon.com/office-products/dp/B002QNI0YM

Within a month, though, you wont need them. Memrise is great (really great) but is only part of a healthy 한국어 diet. Only using memrise is like only eating apples.

The p50 has two bays and one holds two m.2 slots and then if you look on the top of it it also holds push in sockets for sata ribbon cables. You can have two 2.5 drives in each Bay. Someone on the Lenovo forums is using both m.2 slots on the first bay and two shell less 2.5ssd's on top of each other using the ribbon cables in the second bay and has four drives in it. The p70 only has one Bay for the two m.2 and one Bay for a 2.5 drive you can also put a hdd in the optical area but idk if Lenovo or another 3rd party has made a caddy yet. Hope this clears it up.
Edit: looks like they are making them now https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-ThinkPad-original-Newmodeus-carrying/dp/B01G2IOZVI EDIT: Apparently I never wrote down my password and never verified my email my new account is rvcjew2 for reference(smh after one year of lurking)

sounds like you still got the retail cooler. buy another cpu cooler, something like this or depending on your cpu go for a passive one (requires good case air flow).

edit: I have heard that this one is also a good call

The specs would definitely be nice but I wouldn't be able to deal with it not being portable. After the SSD upgrade and maybe maxing out my RAM to 8GB I'm gonna try to save for a kickass 32 GB RAM 512GB SSD laptop. Something like this

I want to buy speakers for an old PC. I don't want to spend more than 400-500 bucks. While I was looking, I found HP S3100 USB Speakers for 475/- and Redgear Mini 2.0 USB Speakers for 299/-. HP is a good brand and other one has some great rating. Which one do you think is better?

I replaced the battery and trackpad on an early 2013 15” MBP. It was a very easy fix. It was my first Mac and the first time doing repairs on an MBP so it was pretty straight forward. I would advise you, if you were to change the trackpad, you should also go ahead and replace the battery as well because you will need to take off the battery to get to the trackpad. What’s the cycle count for your battery?

COMMAND MAC PARTS: Trackpad + Flex Cable - Apple MacBook Pro Retina 15" A1398 (Mid 2012 - Early 2013) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MY59MHY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_sPjNAb73X3AC1

https://www.ebay.com/itm/372206638504

https://youtu.be/tY63Cs9OA1Q

Try a custom cooling store. There's some that specialize in fans and heatsinks. You may be able to find one that fits.

Ok I googled that fan. What a weird fan, ohhh it's a laptop fan.

Fan noise could be the bearings are gone - around 5, 10 years they can start to get all messed up. Nothing you can do to fix a dead bearing, can't lubricate, nothing.

this one is only $10, prime.
https://www.amazon.com/Generic-Cooling-MS-1756-Replacement-E33-0800413-MC2/dp/B00S5XZMPM/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_147_t_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=TBRG7V8FTYDXJRNMYTFA

Second, if you really think it's vibration and not dead bearings, there's some strategies to "decouple" the fan. Google "cpu fan decouple". There's the rubber "screws" method, that one tends to be easiest.

It would be connected to the indicator. And it appears the sleep sensor is also built into the same cable/unit, so that explains the sleep issue as well.

Assuming you have a 13", This should be the part you need. I'd double check though.

And this guide should cover the steps to get to it and fix it. Admittedly it's not for the faint of heart.

If you're lucky it could just be disconnected somehow.

I also tried to install an 2.5" SSD ( Samsung Evo 1tb ) with a cable from Amazon that said it was for a Envy X360 and it fit perfectly. Problem is it was not seen anywhere. Not by the Bios, Windows or the Sansung disk manager. Not visible anywhere. I even updaed the BIOS. Bad cable? This was the cable: https://www.amazon.com/Deal4GO-Connector-M6-AQ005DX-M6-AQ003DX-450-07K06-0001/dp/B07MYCCCTG . As I said, it fit perfectly..just didn't work. I put the SSD in a caddy and formatted as well. The drive is fine. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

I assume you mean the rubber feet are coming off. If that's the case your best bet is to buy on Amazon, I believe 3M makes some that are just like the OEM parts. Unfortunately, Apple won't be able to service your machine anymore since its considered vintage, so I wouldn't waste time making an appointment.

Edit: Something like this is all you need. https://www.amazon.com/Flywing-13-Inch-15-Inch-17-Inch-Replacement/dp/B00R4BDL2C/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1483660527&sr=8-2&keywords=2009+macbook+rubber+feet

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00SNL3RPI/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1496003098&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=bcm94360cs2&dpPl=1&dpID=51JRNctzEvL&ref=plSrch
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01KHRJVXW/ref=pd_aw_sim_147_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=GD424CMQ6YZE897JGD26&dpPl=1&dpID=61dXdkK2RhL

Need both. Should work OOTB for your z270n.