Acer Aspire One ZG5 Fan Replacement

Geschrieben von: Doug Gallatin
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Acer Aspire One ZG5 Fan Replacement

Schwierigkeitsgrad

Moderate

Schritte

30

Zeitaufwand

20 Minuten

Einleitung

Once the motherboard is out, it is relatively straight forward to get to the fan.

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    • Turn the netbook upside down with the battery at the top, facing away from you.

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    • Unlock the battery by sliding the switch located near the left hinge to the left "unlocked" position.

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    • Slide the latch located on the opposite hinge from the lock while pushing the battery up.

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    • Gently loosen the two Phillips #0 screws in the small panel that covers the wireless card.

    • These screws are built into the panel and aren't meant to be completely removed.

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    • Lift up the panel and remove it from the case.

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    • Disconnect the two antenna cables from the left side of the wireless card.

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    • Remove the single 3.9 mm Phillips #1 screw from the bottom left of the wireless card.

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    • Gently lift up the left side of the wireless card and slide the card out of its socket.

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    • Turn the netbook over and open the display so that the keyboard is facing you.

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    • There are three tabs located on the top of the keyboard.

    • Start with the spudger pointing towards the display and pry up to push each tab off the keyboard.

    • As you move to the next tab, ensure the previous tab doesn't reset itself.

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    • Lift top of keyboard up. If it doesn't lift easily, there may be tabs on the sides - use the tool to ease them aside and/or shift the keyboard from side to side.

    • There is a short ribbon cable connecting the keyboard to the netbook.

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    • Disconnect the ribbon by lifting the black plastic hinge and removing the clear blue cable.

    my keyboard ribbon face damaged. how to repair?

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    • Close the display and turn the ZG5 over so that the battery compartment faces away from you.

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    • Remove three 5.8 mm Phillips #0 screws from the bottom of the case

    • Remove three 3.9 mm Phillips #1 screws from the battery compartment.

    • Remove two 5.8 mm Phillips #0 screws from underneath the feet near the hinges.

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    • Turn the netbook back over and open the display with the keyboard cavity facing you.

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    • Flip up the retaining flap on the trackpad ribbon cable ZIF connector.

    • Using the blue tab, pull the trackpad ribbon cable from its socket on the motherboard.

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    • Remove the five black 4.7 mm Phillips #0 screws from the metal casing.

    • Remove the single silver 4.3 mm Phillips #00 screw from the right side of the metal casing.

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    • Starting at the red rings along the hinge, insert a spudger or plastic opening tool into the seam between the two halves of the case.

    • Slide the spudger toward the front of the device, releasing the small clips that hold down the top case.

    • Gently lift off the top case.

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    • Disconnect the two antenna cables from the right side of the wireless card.

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    • Remove the single 3.9 mm Phillips #1 screw from the wireless card.

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    • Gently pull the wireless card to the right and slide it out of its socket.

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    • Disconnect the display cable from the top left of the motherboard.

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    • Disconnect the speaker cable from its socket on the motherboard.

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    • Remove three 3.9 mm Phillips #1 screws from the small I/O board.

    • Remove a single 3.9 mm Phillips #0 screw from the front of the motherboard.

    • Some laptops may instead have a single 4.7 mm Phillips #0 screw.

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    • Remove the two 4.7 mm Phillips #1 screws that connect the display to the motherboard.

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    • Gently lift the I/O board up from the right side of the case.

    • The I/O board is attached to the motherboard by a short cable.

    I took apart an SSD variant. At this step, there were two screws holding the SSD down, but the SSD did not come out with the main and daughter boards. Detaching the I/O cable freed the mainboard to come out with or without the daughterboard.

    unixusr -

    there are 2 silver screws that need to be removed in this step your picture shows them still installed (one is located neer audio plug, the other is located neer keyboard plug) in step 27 (next step) they have been removed without mention

    Scott Riley -

    I have added 1 gb of memory to my ZG5 thanks to this helpful guide. Total cost, including a spudger and a new mini screwdriver, to tackle the 00 Philips, GBP 17.57

    I fear I haven't put the trackpad connector back properly, but device works great with a wireless mouse. Very many thanks.

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    • Lift the entire motherboard assembly out the case.

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    • Disconnect the fan cable from the motherboard.

    For info:

    gray wire: +5V,

    black wire: ground

    maroon wire: sense

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    • Remove the three 3.9mm screws using Phillips #1 screwdriver.

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    • Lift the fan housing from the motherboard.

Abschluss

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

Tinte & Feder

Doug Gallatin

Mitglied seit: 05/10/10

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Steps 4~8 show to remove the wireless card from its access panel outside the computer, then steps 19~21 show to remove it from the inside once the case is off.

Redundant?

I drink beer -

There are two wireless cards -- for that exact model it looks like bluetooth and 802.11n but different models may be different

nathan -

I couldn't ask for it to be any easier. Great job.

Ron Price -

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belly william -