The symptom was first seen just after a lightening strike where the laptop was disconnected from the mains however it was connected to an ADSL modem which in turn was connected to a PSTN telephone line. This could have been the source of the Voltage spike that could have damaged the laptop.
This article relates to the dis-assembly procedure of a Sony PSP-1004 model. First and foremost it is important to remove the battery and any slot in memory cards that are present. Remove also any Game in the drive.
An unlucky occurrence where the poor thing has undergone a water proof test which it seems it failed. I received this LAPTOP as new as it could be hardly ever used but it had been maltreated with soft drink and reported to never switch back on again. So I first checked where the spill came [...]
