"Noisy Voice" <number1lawyer@comcast.net> wrote in message 
news:QZidncWOSKVbJELVnZ2dnUVZ_s3inZ2d@comcast.com...
>I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop.  I have it for a few years.
> The laptop is useless without more memory.
> It needs update in memory.  I want to put the wireless card in too.
>
> However, the damned thing is on the scrap heap.  Why?
> Because when it was assembled the screws were put in hard and deep.
> Beyond any reasonable necessity.  So hard and deep that they cannot be 
> removed.
> What is the point of putting in case openings and telling purchasers they 
> can
> upgrade when the upgrade points are screwed so tight that you can't
> get into the laptop because you can't remove the screws?
>
> This might seem to be an insignificant problem, but it is not.  These 
> tight tiny screws have
> destroyed the usability of a perfectly good laptop.
>
> Not that Toshiba is alone guilty of this inability to know when enough is
> enough in the screwing department.  I have found that many people just
> can't stop irretrievably screwing screws into computer equipment.
> Are these guys frustrated about something or what?
>
> And to top it all off, Toshiba insulates itself to such a degree that 
> there
> is no easy way of providing feedback telling them to stop screwing.
> No feedback section about their product.  Toshiba doesn't want to know 
> nothing.
>
> Feedback to Toshiba:  STOP SCREWING IN THE SCREWS SO HARD!!!!!!
>

looks like you are screwed...... LOL
Seriously....if you have got nothing to lose then you can try this trick.
Using a small wattage...small tipped soldering iron...hold the hot tip to 
the screw head for about 30 seconds... and then try to loosen the screw. 
Many times Loctite or other compounds are used on the threads so the screws 
won't back out in normal use. The heat will soften the compound. Also make 
sure that the tool you are using is the correct fit for the screw head