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By Bilal / Acer Laptop Repair • Motherboard Repair / • • • / 0 Comments

How to Replace Motherboard on ACER Laptop

Almost all people confront motherboard failure problems while using desktops and laptops nowadays. You may find that your laptop is not powering up because of motherboard failure. When a laptop’s motherboard fails, you have to replace it with a new one. Without asking help from an expert, you can replace the motherboard from home. However, you need to follow some simple steps to do that perfectly. This article will teach you how to replace a motherboard on an Acer laptop that has failed.

Here are the steps you should follow while replacing the motherboard on your Acer laptops.

Step 1: Remove Battery

First, you need to disconnect your laptop’s power source to remove the battery from the laptop. Now make your laptop upside-down and remove the battery by lifting it out of the laptop. This will ensure your safety while starting the motherboard replacement process of your laptop. If you found that your laptop has a mounted battery, you can skip the step.

Step 2: Open Back Cover

Now, keeping the laptop upside down, you need to find the screw points of your laptop. You have to use a screwdriver to remove them all from your laptop. This will help to open the back cover of your laptop. You must need access to all the screw points of the laptop’s cover.
Be careful while you are unscrewing the service plate’s cover of the laptop. After the panel has been loosened by the plastic opening tool, you have to take a finger, place it in the gap, and then remove the panel from the laptop. You must need to keep all the laptop’s screws in a safe location because you will need all these screws at the time of restoring your device.

Step 3: Remove Keyboard Panel

After that, you need to take the laptop in an available position and locate the tabs keeping the keyboard in place. Then, you can use thin tweezers to push the tabs in the keyboard and pull them up on the edge of it. Of course, when you push it, the keyboard will bend, and it may seem like it’s breaking, but there is no need to worry.

Then use your hands when the keyboard begins popping out of place. To keep the part that has been detached from the laptop in the air. After that, you need to continue pushing in tabs and lifting the keyboard as described above. Now you have successfully separated the keyboard from your Acer laptop.

Step 4: Separate Parts

After you have removed all of the prerequisites, it’s time to unscrew a few more screws. Next, you have to release all the components’ connections attached to the motherboard, such as the power button and the trackpad. You must need to remove these connections the same way you undid the keyboard using the tweezers. Be very much careful while you are using your hands to separate the connections. It would be best if you needed to use a plastic opening tool or your hands to carefully lift the corner of the top panel of the laptop.

Step 5: Pull Out Cooling Fan

Once you have located the laptop’s cooling fan, use a screwdriver to separate it from the motherboard. One of the screws may be directly beneath a set of wires, so be careful not to cut those wires as you remove the screws. Instead, it would help if you used tweezers to disconnect the wires connecting the fan to the laptop and pull out the fan from the board.

Step 6: Replace the Motherboard

Locate the two strips and the wire bundle that is connected to the motherboard from other components. You have to be careful while removing the connections, as done previously for the keyboard. Next, lift the motherboard, and locate the last wire bundle that needs to be removed. The motherboard should now be completely free of connections, and you can remove the motherboard. Now you can replace the motherboard with a new one.

Step 7: Reassemble All Parts

Finally, you have to restore all the connections to the laptop. For that, you need to place the connections right on the motherboard. Next, you have to drop the motherboard with the processor and cooling assembly into the appropriate notch. Finally, reverse the process you have followed to separate all the connections and chips. If you’ve reassembled the laptop in the correct order, you should be able to power up and see the BIOS screen. Now you need to install your preferred operating system to use your laptop.

Conclusion

These are the elementary steps you should follow while replacing the motherboard of your laptop. I hope this will help you to deal with your motherboard failure issue. Be attentive and careful while you are opening the laptop to look inside.

Please note that the guideline instructions provided may not always apply to the symptoms your computer is experiencing. Sometimes, symptoms or behavior can be the same, but the underlying reason or fault can be completely different.

The fastest way we can assist customers is by bringing computers to our workshop, where technicians have the tools to diagnose faults accurately. After checks, if parts are found to be faulty or damaged, we proceed to replace them with high-quality original parts.

No appointments are required; you can drop off your computer at our workshop during working hours.

If you have more queries about our laptop repair and upgrade services, please feel free to contact us at 020 7018 7490 or email us at contact@pcfixlondon.com

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By Bilal / Acer Laptop Repair • Motherboard Repair / • • / 0 Comments

How To Fix Motherboard Failure In Acer Laptops

Motherboard failure is a common problem that people face while using laptops. After checking all other possibilities, you may find that the motherboard is the last suspect to verify why the laptop is not powering up. When any laptop has a motherboard that has failed, the only possible route for the end-user is to clean it and try to power up. This article will show you how to fix a motherboard failure on an Acer laptop.

Here are the steps you should follow to fix your motherboard failure in your Acer laptops from home.

Step 1: Take Safety Precautions

At first, you have to disconnect the power cable from the laptop. That will make sure your safety while starting the fixing process of your laptop. After that, flip the laptop upside down to remove the battery from it. If your laptop has an internally mounted battery, you can skip the step.

Step 2: Remove All Screws

Now, find the screw points of your laptop so that you can remove them. Keep the laptop upside-down until you have access to all the screw points of the laptop’s cover.

You have to unscrew the service plate’s cover of the laptop carefully. This will help you to gain access to the memory and drive as well as the wireless adapter. If your laptop requires removing all screws on the underside, then unscrew all possible screw locations. You must need to keep all the laptop’s screws in a safe location because you will need all these screws at the time of restoring your device.

Step 3: Separate Parts

After unscrewing, you can now open the laptop’s cover. Then, you have to remove the memory, storage, optical drive (if the laptop has one), and wireless adapter. There’s a chance you’ll have to deal with screws holding the drive and wireless adapters in place. You must also disconnect the wireless adapter’s black and white cables flowing away from the adapter. Be careful while you are into the laptop body because it is a little sensitive to handle a laptop’s internal chipset.

Step 4: Extract Cooling Fan

Therefore, you have to unplug all connections of your laptop from the motherboard. This includes the display, USB connectivity, cooling fan, and other chips. Remove the cooling fan by unplugging it from the motherboard. If there is any screw attached to the cooling fan, unscrew them and remove the fan.

Step 5: Use Circuit Cleaner

After that, you need to unscrew the heatsink assembly from the motherboard. And you have to use isopropyl alcohol to clean the thermal paste from the CPU, GPU, and chipset (if it’s a unified Heatpipe assembly). But suppose, for some reason, you may not have access to isopropyl alcohol or rubbing alcohol. IN that case, you can use nail polish remover instead of isopropyl alcohol.

Step 6: Clean The Motherboard

You may or may not be required to remove the processor from the board, depending on the model of your Acer laptop. Next, you have to lift the processor and release all the connections. To use a circuit cleaner to clean the motherboard and wait for a while. This is the last work you need to do to fix your laptop motherboard problem.

Step 7: Reassemble

Finally, you have to restore all the connections to the laptop. For that, you need to place the processor on the motherboard. Next, you have to reapply thermal paste onto the die surfaces for your CPU, GPU, and chipset. Then remount the cooling assembly onto the motherboard of your laptop. And after that, connect the cooling fans’ power cable. Finally, you have to drop the motherboard with the processor and cooling assembly into the appropriate notch. If you’ve reassembled the laptop in the correct order, you should be able to power up and see the BIOS screen.

Final Thought

I hope following these simple steps will help you to fix the motherboard issues of your Acer laptops. As this is a common problem, you can fix it at home before asking an expert. Laptops mainly face motherboard-related issues often these days. If these simple steps cannot solve your problem, you have to replace the motherboard with a new one.

Please note that the guideline instructions provided may not always apply to the symptoms your computer is experiencing. Sometimes, symptoms or behavior can be the same, but the underlying reason or fault can be completely different.

The fastest way we can assist customers is by bringing computers to our workshop, where technicians have the tools to diagnose faults accurately. After checks, if parts are found to be faulty or damaged, we proceed to replace them with high-quality original parts.

No appointments are required; you can drop off your computer at our workshop during working hours.

If you have more queries about our laptop repair and upgrade services, please feel free to contact us at 020 7018 7490 or email us at contact@pcfixlondon.com