OT: computer hardware help

So, I spilled a little coffee on the corner of my Toshiba laptop's keyboard
yesterday and there are a few keys at the spill which are still not working. I
want to take the thing apart to clean the circuitboard underneath. I go to
open up the laptop case, and I'll be damned if there aren't 2 weird screws on
the bottom!

They look like Torx, and a T9 would fit great, but there is a single pin
sticking up in the middle of the Torx "star!" Anyone know what the hell this
screw is and where I can get a tool to open it?

(yeah, I know, just take the thing to CompUSA and let them fix it!)

--
__o Jonathan Acey Albert, M.D.
_ \<,_ "The art of medicine is in amusing the patient while
(_)/ (_) nature affects the cure." - Voltaire


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