Notebook Parts Maintenance Strategy

Most friends who have laptops for the first time are overwhelmed by how to love and protect their precious possessions that cost so much money to buy home. In fact, all aspects of laptop maintenance are not as complex as some people imagine and describe, and the key to this problem is whether you think of it as a tool or a newborn baby? If the former, usually as long as a more careful, less deliberately, your machine can be protected as well; ... You're going to be more miserable than looking after a real baby and spending more than 10,000 bucks to come back. A small ancestor naturally is not worth it. Therefore, the first use of notebook mentality to correct, notebook is consumer goods, not ornamental products!

First, the shell machine from the packaging to take out, the initial view of the nature is the shell part. The cleanliness and integrity of the shell also affect the user's mood, I think no one will be covered with stains and scratches of the laptop computer has a lot of affection. Some people compare the shell of a laptop to a woman's face, with time migration will slowly imprint the years, when one day your friend praised you use two years of notebook computer is still new, I think you will also be cheerful!

In order to achieve attractive visual effects, most manufacturers use plastic (or composite metal) coated shell, which has a beautiful appearance and good hand touch, but also bring some small trouble to the user. If you do not take care of the ordinary hands, the shell part, especially the LCD top cover will soon be scratched, exposing the difficult to see the underlying materials, to a certain extent affect the overall appearance of the feeling.

The cleaning of this shell also requires extra attention, you can use a soft cloth stained with some water and then wring dry to wipe, if you encounter grease stains such as not easy to clean, may wish to try some wax detergent (such as blue and car cleaning paste wax), but avoid the use of alcohol and other organic solvents, Otherwise the coating on the surface of the shell is dissolved, which is not good to see.

For those who are more difficult to wait on the laptop (such as Sony VAIO) the protection of the shell requires you to be more careful, to avoid the sharp object and the shell contact. If there is a condition, give it a soft inner bag, which can avoid the damage of the shell to some extent.

Said the shell, can not say that the laptop's wrist part, which is the most commonly used in the body to contact the part of the wrist will be in the work of the machine generated by the heat and sweat, long time will be caused by the corrosion of the wrist coating. Fortunately, many manufacturers have already noticed this problem, so you will see some manufacturers start to use uncoated pure color plastic wristband or as Sony, in the wrist to paste some of the introduction of the paper to protect the wrist.

Finally, don't forget to give your notebook with a good texture, durable outsourcing, it can not only protect the shell, but more importantly can effectively make your laptop from accidents.

Second, LCD as the face of the laptop, LCD is the one we open the computer must always face the part. Do you like to see an LCD that is clean, tidy or dirty and full of hurt? I think few people choose the latter.

Because of the LCD panel material is very fragile and very easy to damage, so once the outside of its force on the LCD will cause the damage can not be repaired, such as appear blurred, water ripple and so on, which affect the display output effect. If this is the result of LCD rupture, screen change is the only way, its price is very expensive to almost account for the entire notebook price 1/3-1/2. So at ordinary times to avoid the LCD by the positive external shocks, such as pressure, smashing, dozen, and so on, not as some people joked that notebook computer when the pillow, when the foot mat ... I think even the IBM ThinkPad design a relatively strong shell can not afford to do this toss, in addition to the usual time to pay attention to the protection of the movement is particularly important, the notebook computer is always a miss Jiao, to crowded places it is afraid of squeezing, So even if you give it a more robust outsourcing or try to keep it in a crowded place as little as possible.

A lot of people use fingers on the screen of the habit of disorderly, this will not only leave the LCD on the ugly and difficult to clean finger prints, and LCD unfortunately by your fingernails out of the DAO Zi can not be repaired, beautiful face may be wounded.

Due to the physical characteristics of LCD, so that its service life relative to the desktop CRT display is a lot shorter, for example, in two years or so due to the back of the lamp and LCD board aging will appear dark and yellow problem. This requires you in peacetime use as much attention as possible, do not put the brightness is too high, in fact, many of the screen quality of the machine is very good, too high, but it will be dazzling. And you can set the power management options for how long to automatically turn off the LCD, not only to effectively extend the life of the LCD, but also to save some power when using battery power.

LCD in the cleaning method and shell comparison, in addition to the use of organic solvents can not wipe, can not be used to wipe water directly, this is because the liquid crystal has a strong permeability, if you do not want to screen because of the water and color stripes, remember this point. You can use wet cloth dipped in water to wipe, or to buy LCD special cleaning agent, the screen will generally be able to remove stains quickly.

Third, keyboard keyboard is the most easy to accumulate dust parts of the notebook computer, look at the key cap to know that it is the best hiding place under the dust.

Too much dust will accelerate the corrosion of the keyboard's conductive rubber, causing damage to the printed circuit of the keyboard. Think of what it would look like to be a smoker's ashtray keyboard?

If you want to completely clean the keyboard, you have to remove the key cap one by one, very troublesome, so in order not to let oneself take this step chess, should try not to let the computer exposed too large smoke environment. It is also best not to eat in front of the computer, especially when the residue is flying and the juice is a lot of food, difficult to clean do not say, in case of a careless day, juice spilled on the keyboard, there may be infiltration into the mainframe, damage to the motherboard, because this damage is not covered by the free warranty, you have to pay out of the pocket.

In addition, the teacher taught us to develop the habit of cutting nails here also get the return, if you are always with long nails hand to knock on the keyboard, I think often by you knock on the keys of the few key caps on the printed words will soon disappear.

Four, the pointer positioning device is now widely used in the notebook computer pointer positioning device has a pointing rod and touchpad two kinds, the former mainly by IBM's full range of models and early Toshiba,dell and other models, and the latter is the most common to a notebook computer pointer positioning equipment.

For these two different kinds of mouse, nature in the maintenance of the way and complexity is also different. Pointing stick in the maintenance of the most simple, basically do not need to pay attention to excessive problems, if the dirty can be removed and cleaned, it is hopeless to repair the center to buy a change on the. and the touchpad because it is completely closed design, so the possibility of dust into the interior is very small, usually pay more attention to clean surface dust. In addition, in order to allow users to get a better feel, touch board surface has a layer of scrub, with the frequent friction with the fingers, the coating will slowly return, another sharp object will be the coating off, so usually when used as much as possible to be careful. For users of touchpad models, it is necessary to clean hand hygiene before each use and wipe the moisture off the hands.

Five, the external interface to say what is the most afraid of the external interface? Nothing but dust and improper plug and pull way.

In fact, the dust for each electronic original is a terrible enemy, some thoughtful manufacturers will be on the machine for the port design rubber jacket, usually do not use the time can be used to put end masks live to resist invasion of foreign invaders. And for those who do not have these devices, only rely on users to pay more attention to cleaning.

Incorrect plug way can be said to be the culprit of the port scrap, the following provide (smooth, fixed, not frequent) experience to everyone, see you usually in the Plug and unplug the external equipment is not the opposite of the way they operate. Where the smooth refers to the insertion of the joints when the taboo shakes, in fact, I've seen a lot of users use this somewhat violent approach to the more tightly plugged interfaces, which not only lead to loose joints, but can also cause broken pins if they are pin joints, and fixed mainly for bolted-fixed interfaces, such as serial and VGA out connectors, if not fixed, in the use of loosening is likely to be the danger of burning the port; the last point is not frequent, refers to those who use a high frequency of external devices, such as PC Card, if not a special case, then try to avoid frequent plug and pull, This may cause poor contact or short circuit due to loose interface.

Six, batteries for laptops, batteries can be said to be a relatively important component, its status is directly related to the notebook computer in the absence of power in the environment of the working ability. and the battery in the notebook computer is a total consumption component, so the laptop battery maintenance and reasonable use of the problem is often discussed topic.

Since it's hard to see the models now on NiMH batteries, I will focus on the commonly used lithium-ion batteries in this section. Lithium-ion batteries typically have a life cycle of 300 to 500 times. But that does not mean that you use the battery very rarely and it can prolong its longevity. The battery as a physical original is susceptible to various factors in the work environment, and the main reason for the battery loss is the oxidation caused by the internal resistance of the battery increased, which is why many users will complain about their battery full of electricity in the use of why all of a sudden there is no electricity. So to understand this problem, it is that when the battery assembly to the end of the production line, its internal life clock began to move around, even if you put the battery aside, it is only to a certain extent to delay the battery loss speed. But then again, always put the battery aside, the mobile meaning of the notebook computer and how to talk about?

But proper maintenance is not unnecessary, so many people will mention how to protect a battery so that it does not retire early in the life of the problem. Since the battery life is mainly determined by the number of charges, so avoid the frequent use of batteries should be said to be the most fundamental method, that is, in the use of the power of the environment as far as possible not to use batteries to power.

This raises the question of whether the battery should be removed from the machine when using the power supply, which is a real headache. To illustrate this issue, let's take a look at a table that shows the changes in battery capacity after a certain period of time under different charging conditions and ambient temperatures.

Ambient temperature charge 40% save often do this charge 100% save often do this after a year the actual usable capacity of the battery is 0 degrees Celsius 98% 94% 25 degrees 96% 80% 40 degrees 85% 65% 60 Celsius 75% 60% (three months later) is visible by the table, High charging conditions and high temperatures have accelerated the decline in battery capacity. So now let's imagine what the battery is like if it's not removed, at this time due to the laptop's charge protection circuit function, so that the battery maintained in the 95-100% high charge state, and at this time the battery at least at 30°c ambient temperature, if it is hot weather, this temperature will be higher, What do you get when you return to the table above?

Therefore, in the AC power supply stable premise, try to remove the battery to use the computer. If you intend to not use the battery for a long time, the battery should be charged to 40% and put in a cool place to save, and if full of electricity after the battery to the high temperature, this will cause great damage to the battery. The table also shows that the charge 100% in the 60°c environment to save, 3 months after the battery capacity is down 40%. For the storage of the battery used for at least 1 months to put the battery up to use once, recharge the electricity, so as to avoid the battery ion loss of activity.

Dust and moisture also play the role of battery killers, which damage the battery board circuitry and accelerate oxidation inside the battery, so for those batteries that are kept for a long time, a layer of thin film can be used to coat dirt and moisture.

The last question worth mentioning is how the lithium-ion battery is reasonably charged and discharged. Because the electric memory effect of lithium-ion battery is negligible, the damage caused by the charging is not great, and the most feared is the excessive discharge (complete discharge). Often the result of excessive low discharge of lithium-ion batteries is only to let the battery early scrap, those such as the BIOS discharge, program discharge, or even a small bulb to discharge the way not to be forced is not the best to try. So for lithium-ion batteries you don't have to wait until 0% to recharge.

Seven, optical drive people eat bad will not be comfortable, the CD-ROM drive the same, so try to use less of those poor quality of the disc, because of such a compact disc, and some not even uneven, often read such a disc, your optical drive will not be long because of the bald loss and scrap.

Because the notebook computer optical drive is not a desktop optical drive, such as automatic telescopic, so usually pull out and push the cage when you should pay attention not to skew, and do not force too much.

The CD-ROM drive is also part of the consumption of the battery, the replacement is not only trouble and the price relative to the desktop CD-ROM 3-4 times more expensive, so usually as little as possible with it to play with disk games or watching DVDs, and the use of virtual CD-ROM or Dvdidle programs to read the CD file to

You can also use a program like Nero Driver speed to force the optical drive to work on a speed file, which can more or less extend the life of the drive.

Eight, the hard disk notebook computer must move, so the laptop hard disk in the Shockproof performance than the desktop hard disk is much better, many notebook computer manufacturers also through the protective pads and strengthen the brackets to reduce the impact of the hard drive may be. But this does not mean that you can take a notebook computer in the reading and writing state to move around casually, as far as possible when the hard drive does not work so much as to move the computer, and should be handled lightly. Therefore, those who are still in the rough and violent transportation to watch movies, play the game of the laptop computer cool race and so on.

Like LCD, you can also use the power management options in the relevant settings to enable the hard drive in a certain period of time automatically shut down, so in addition to saving a certain battery power can also effectively reduce the hard disk long rotation caused by mechanical wear.

With the increase in the speed of other parts, the hard disk has become the biggest bottleneck in the performance of notebook computers, desktop hard disk has entered the era, while the notebook hard drive in the mainstream 4200 sway (a few high-end model configuration 5400 turn hard drive, 7200 to the hard drive has come out, but has not yet entered the stage So in order to effectively reduce the impact of this speed bottleneck on users ' applications, in addition to doing a good job of optimizing the performance of the system software, install the commonly used programs in the system partition as much as possible, because the faster the disk partition is, the slower the read disk will become, and if the program like Photoshop is placed on the back partition , is undoubtedly worse. In addition, it is also possible to separate a small partition to the operating system and some programs cache points to the partition, which can reduce the number of fragmentation of the system partition on the speed of the impact.

A careful reader must see that I often use the words "try to" and "as much as possible" when giving advice. This is because the laptop as a tool, so that it can meet everyone's work and entertainment needs is the most important, so it involves maintenance of the problem some people feel that buying a computer is to use, not to keep. Indeed, some people's machines are not how to care, in 2-3 years later, the same use is very good, as to what the visual to other people feel that the other said. It can be said that my article is not very suitable for the super practical tool of the supremacy of the people to see. And for those who want to be able to protect their own machine a better friend, also do not have to deliberately copy the whole, so or that sentence, usually as long as a more careful, less deliberately, as far as possible to do.