Disassembling Acer v3 laptop

If this is how you decide to disassemble the Acer Aspire V3, you are welcome to the article. Disassembling laptops, as well as their desktop versions, can serve several purposes: repair, replacement of individual system components or technical inspection. At the same time, technological inspection, also known as cleaning, is a useful and necessary procedure.

During operation, a lot of dust and dirt accumulate in the system. Dust and dirt significantly impede the operation of your computer. Their accumulation leads to worse heat transfer of components, increased temperature and increased noise. There is a risk of short circuit.

Recommended clean your laptop once every six months or once a year. In order to clean the Acer Aspire V3, it must be disassembled. This is what you and I will do. The first thing you need to do before starting work is to find a tool. To disassemble the Acer Aspire V3, we need a small Phillips screwdriver to unscrew the bolts and a plastic card, it is needed to open the latches. Bank cards are excellent as a plastic card.

If you decide to clean your laptop, you will also need a small brush, a cloth and cotton swabs. Never wipe your laptop with a damp cloth. Moisture can cause a short circuit and break an expensive item. Prepare a box in which you will place the screws and try to remember which screw was removed from where.

You also need a place where you will organize the dismantled elements of the laptop. Try to keep the area dry and clean. Now you can proceed directly to the analysis.

The second point, before we start disassembling, will be to turn off the laptop and disconnect it from the power supply. However, if you enjoy electric shocks, you can neglect this point. Only you are responsible for your health.

Let's proceed directly to disassembly. Step one is to unlock and remove the battery. We have already discussed the issue of security.



Take a small Phillips screwdriver. Use it to unscrew the 2 screws from the bottom. They are indicated in red. Then remove the cover using your hands.




Admire your work. Now in front of you are 3 important elements of any computer: Hard drive, Random access memory (RAM) and wireless module (Wi-Fi). If you are unfamiliar with the principles of their operation, read it, it will be useful.



Go ahead. To remove the hard drive, you need to carefully move it to the left and lift it up. This way you disconnect it from motherboard, but be extremely careful with it, all your information is on it! Place it on a prepared clean and dry place. It will not be superfluous to wipe it from dust. Just don't spit on it or lick the contacts.



To continue, we need to take the Phillips screwdriver again and remove the optical drive. It is held in place by only one screw, it is marked. Pry the drive and remove it with a slight movement to the left. Wipe it, put it next to the hard drive. Don’t forget to put the screws in a box so they don’t get lost, because you still have to assemble the laptop.



Next, a rather long and routine process follows: you need to unscrew absolutely all the bolts on the bottom panel of the laptop, except for three silver ones in the battery compartment and one silver one under the random access memory (RAM) slot. Accordingly, we take a screwdriver and twist-twist-twist. Turn on the music, it will be more fun.



If you did it, great. Turn your laptop over. I mentioned a plastic card earlier, take it. As an analogue, you can use a pick or similar plastic items.
Use a plastic card to pry and remove the panel under the keyboard. This must be done carefully. Pay special attention to the latches - try not to break them. Do not bend the plastic. It is better to lightly lift it several times than to rip it off on the first try, breaking all the fasteners.



If you are sure that you have managed to remove the cover and all the latches have been removed, unscrew the bolt below. In this case, the cover should be close to the keyboard, since it is still connected to the computer via a cable.



Now carefully lift the keyboard and move it towards the display. Do everything slowly and smoothly so as not to damage the elements that are under it.



This position of the bottom panel and keyboard will allow us to kill not even two, but three birds with one stone. The picture below shows three loops. These are power cables for the keyboard, touch panel and power button. They need to be disabled. To do this, carefully pull their plastic ends. Do not pull on the cable itself, you may damage the wires. Repairing them costs money, sometimes quite a bit.



However, our world is not as simple as it seems. This laptop is no exception. In order to remove the right cable, you need to unlock it. You can unlock it using the locking plate. This platinum needs to be moved from its place, after which you can safely disconnect the cable itself.



Now the work will go faster. If all cables are disconnected, feel free to remove the keyboard unit.



And right behind it is the touch panel. It is important to carefully put all the parts in one place.



Meanwhile, if you turn the keyboard over, you will have access to the laptop's on/off button. This information will be useful if the latter needs to be repaired. If you need to replace the keyboard, you will need to remove the metal shield from the bottom of the assembly.



In exactly the same way, the touch panel can be accessed by looking under the cover that we removed earlier.



At this point in disassembly, your laptop should look something like this. In front of you is the motherboard - again everything. A separate item is noted for the CMOS battery. Computers also run on batteries.



Now you can safely begin dismantling the motherboard. To do this, you need to remove the wireless card. In order to remove the wireless card, disconnect 2 antenna cables from it - black and white. It is important to remember the location of the cables and install them in exactly the same order during assembly.



Now take a screwdriver and unscrew the only screw that holds the board. Moving to the left - top, remove it from the motherboard. Screw into the box, board to the rest of the spare parts.



Let's get back to the wires. Grab them tightly, disconnect them from the body and pull them out through the hole.



There are only 2 bolts holding the motherboard in the case, unscrew them and put them in the box. And immediately after that, disconnect 5 loops. Do not forget that the cables are very fragile and can break. You need to disconnect the cables using the plastic part so as not to damage the wires. All elements are shown in the picture below.



So, we are very close to dismantling the motherboard. Here you need to be as careful as possible. The motherboard must be lifted, but not completely removed. First, unplug the power supply cable.



After removing the motherboard, you can put the laptop case aside. Now we will work directly with the motherboard and cooling system. First, we should turn the board over with the fan facing you. The fan itself and the entire cooling system are held in place with bolts. Take a screwdriver and unscrew it.



After unscrewing the screws, very carefully remove the cooling system. That's all. You have disassembled your laptop, for which I congratulate you. I recommend cleaning every element of the device from dust. The thermal paste also needs to be replaced.

Pay special attention to the fan blades and radiator. Clogged blades create a lot of noise, and a dirty radiator does not provide effective heat transfer. This concludes my article, and you have a long step ahead of you about putting the laptop back together. Good luck! Having disassembled the laptop, you have access to all its components, you can conduct T.O. and replace the failed part. My advice to you is to clean your device more often and it will work better. Change the thermal paste once a year - it is responsible for heat transfer.