<br><span class="q">I threw a piece of transparent tape on top of a flat black five-wire
ribbon cable that led from the trackpad to somewhere off to the left,
underneath a very <span style="font-style: italic;">unforgiving </span>notch.
I did not see any damage to the cable but figured that I should tape it
anyway since I went through the trouble of finding and then buying a
torx T8 driver to remove the hard drive.<br>
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Well, that doesn't seem to do the trick. Also, when I restart,
sometimes the computer boots without the screen - as I type this, I hit
cmd-ctrl-power about 10 times and still haven't gotten a good boot
(with a screen). I occassionally reset my PMU when that happens,
and sometimes that does the trick...<br>
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Where does this "great machine" part come in? This is getting extremely frustrating.</span><br>