#ACER ASPIRE 5100 CPU HOW TO#
#ACER ASPIRE 5100 CPU UPGRADE#

What happens when I press the power button is the power light comes on and the fan starts up, then, after about a second, it all shuts off. I tested with the battery in and with the battery out, but no go. With it plugged in, the laptop still would not power up, so I let it charge for more than 24 hours. She sent me her other charger, which I tested and know to be working. It didnвЂ™t help, so I tested it and found it was broken. The other wires will be easy for me.Д«ut there is a new twistвЂ¦ The battery ran out of juice, so she gave me the charger. I fixed the screen easily enough by building brackets for the hinges the cable was OK. She DROPPED the poor thing and the screen came completely off, the WiFi wires broke,and the camera wires broke. IвЂ™m repairing a laptop for a co-worker, an Acer Aspire BL51. Thank you for this web site and the Acer instructions. Now you can release the cable and remove the keyboard. If you break the connector, youвЂ™ll have to replace the whole motherboard. Carefully move the black tab about 1-2 millimeters up with your fingernails as it shown on the picture below.ДO NOT SEPARATE THIS TAB FROM THE CONNECTOR, IT HAS TO STAY ATTACHED TO THE CONNECTOR. Before you can remove it completely, youвЂ™ll have to unlock the connector and release the cable.Д¦. The keyboard is connected to the motherboard via a flat ribbon cable. Carefully lift up the keyboard, itвЂ™s still attached to the motherboard.ДҐ. Remove two screws securing the keyboard.Д¤. Lift up the bezel with a flathead screwdriver as it shown on the picture below.ДЈ.

#ACER ASPIRE 5100 CPU HOW TO#

In the following steps IвЂ™ll explain how to disconnect and remove the keyboard.ДЎ. HereвЂ™s how you can replace thermal paste between the heatsink and CPU. This dust buildup kills normal airflow inside the cooling module and causesВ overheating. My laptop had a lot of dust trapped between the fan and heatsink. Carefully disconnect fan cable from the motherboard. When the wireless card pops up at a 30 degree angle, pull it from the slot by the edges. Spread latches on both sides of the wireless card same way as you did with RAM modules.ДЈ.

Grab the antenna cable connector with your fingers and unsnap it from the connector on the wireless card.Дў. You should use PC2-533 DDR2-667MHz 200pin SODIMM RAM modules.ДЎ. Carefully spread latches on both sides of the memory slot until the module pops up at a 30 degree angle.ДЄcer Aspire 5100 has two memory slots.

#ACER ASPIRE 5100 CPU UPGRADE#

You can upgrade it to a larger capacity HDD or SSD.ДЎ. My Aspire 5100 had a 80GB 5400RPM SATA HDD installed. If you are replacing the hard drive with a new one, youвЂ™ll have to transfer the mounting bracket to a new drive. Pull the hard drive to the right side until itвЂ™s disconnected from the motherboard. Push the drive from the case with a flathead screwdriver.ДЎ. Remove one screw (red circle) securing the drive.Дў. Remove four screws marked with red circles and loosen two screws marked with green circles. In the next article IвЂ™ll explain how to remove the screen.ДЇirst of all, make sure the computer is turned off, the power adapter is disconnected and the battery is removed.Д«oth memory modules, wireless card, cooling and and hard drive can be accessed from the bottom. Put the top cover back on and the lcd and wires back to were they are and then check at this point to make sure you have video and if you do then go ahead put the rest of the screws back and then you have a new updated laptop.IвЂ™ll show how to remove major internal components. Put the screws back into the motherboard to hold it ins place. Go ahead and turn the screw, its not meant to come all the way out so move it to the left until it stops.ДЇinally you can put the new CPU in place and move the screw towared the right so it tightens put the heatsink and fan back and the fan back as well. The cpu is in a slot that has a flathead screw holding it in place in the socket. The cpu will be underneath the cup heatsink assembly which will require some screws to remove the heatsink so now it will expose the CPU. You can now remove the motherboard from the laptop. They will be labeled with arrow so go ahead and remove those. Now at this point go ahead there may be a few screws holding in the mothrerboard in place. Then go ahead and the keyboard cover will have to come off, the keyboard itself comes out, then there will be some screws underneath the keyboard that will be holding in the top cover Once those comes out you'll have to take off the screen there will be two screw on each side of the lcd that have to come off.ДЄt this point if threre are any wires coming from the lcd screen, they will have to be disconnected so you can pull the lcd off of the top cover to remove it completely. All the screws will have to com out of the bottom of the laptop. What you need to do is to take the motherboard out of there.

Acer aspire 5100 cpu