HomeIn this tutorial I’ll explain how to remove LCD screen and replace inverter board in an Acer Aspire 5100 laptop. This tutorial will work for many other Acer laptops with the same body.
In my previous article I was taking an Acer Aspire 5100 apart.
OK, let’s get inside the display assembly.
First of all, turn off the laptop, unplug AC adapter and remove the battery.
The screen bezel has four screws hidden under for seals. Two rubber seals on the top of the bezel and two plastic seals on the bottom.
You can remove all four screw seals with a sharp object as it shown on the picture below. Glue removed seals somewhere on the bezel so they don’t get lost.
Remove four screws found under seals.
Start remove the screen bezel with your fingers. Proceed slowly while removing the bezel.
Continue removing the screen bezel.
The bezel has been removed.
The inverter board is mounted below the laptop screen. If you are replacing the inverter board, you’ll have to separate the top cover from the screen first.
Remove four screws. Two of them securing display hinges and other two securing the inverter board.
Carefully separate the display cover from the screen and access the LCD cable connector.
You’ll have to unplug the LCD cable from the screen.
First, unglue the clear sticky tape securing the connection.
Second, unplug the LCD cable from the connector on the screen.
Now you can access the inverter board witch is still connected to the laptop by cables on both sides.
Carefully unplug cables from both sides of the inverter board.
Remove the screen inverter board and replace it with a new inverter.
Here’s how you can remove the LCD screen.
Simply remove four screws securing the LCD screen to the display hinge. Remove four more screws from the other side of the screen.
Now you can remove and replace the failed or cracked screen with a new LCD screen.
December 22nd, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Paula Roberts,
Sounds like a bad screen. I’m 99% sure it’s not related to the inverter board.
December 22nd, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Hello -
I am experience problems with my Acer Aspire 5004 laptop screen. I get a vertical line in the display. Everything above the line is very clear. Everything below the line is lighter and eventually fades out. If I press the back of the screen through the cover, the screen comes out brighter (but still faded) and eventually needs to be manipulated again. There are no visible cracks in the glass or in the computer housing. How can I tell if this is a screen or inverter problem (or some other problem)?
Thank you!
December 18th, 2008 at 7:35 am
More info on my Aspire 5100 and the display that does not come up. I found that the probem does not occur if it is started up on the battery only with the AC disconnected. Also, I got this computer two Decembers ago and a similar problem occured in that the mouse and keyboard would not respond. That happened about September. Acer replaced the main board in December. This new problem started around September also. Both times the problem got progressively worse. I don’t know if the keyboard would have worked if I had powered the computer up on battery only.
December 17th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I have an Acer Aspire 5100. Occasionally, when turning it on the display comes up white and gray with a somewhat cloth looking pattern. Turning it off and the display does not come up or comes up normal. More often, when turning it on, the display just doesn’t come back even after repeated tries. If held up near bright light, there is no sign of anything so I don’t think it is the backlight. I wait until later and it works. The display never stops working once it is up and running. The no display is only at startup. If an external monitor is connected, it always works. Last Monday, during startup, only the external monitor was working until the click on user’s name screen came up when the display came on. This happened Tuesday morning again but Tuesday night the connection of the external monitor did not cause the display to come on at that point. With no external monitor, if the display is dead at power up it will stay dead. It has been suggest that I could have a probem in the BIOS.
December 6th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Bill Heumann,
Sounds like a problem with the screen, not the inverter.
December 6th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Thanks a lot for the great information! I have 2 Aspire 5100′s and am making one good one from the 2. Can you help me locate a problem with my screen? It used to have one verticle line on the right side. Then it started going blank. I could wiggle it and it would work. Now all I see is bands of vertical lines. I am wondering if the problem is with the screen or the inverter?
Thanks again for your work.
Bill Heumann
December 3rd, 2008 at 5:31 am
Thanks, your guide was more than helpful. I’ll tell everyone about your site!!!
Merry Christmas 2008
December 1st, 2008 at 3:14 am
Hi!
Your guide helped me fix my LCD, thx very much!
Does anyone know if one can get this silly LCD cable somewhere? Rest is ok, only this cable has a loose contact.
Greets
Mentok
November 27th, 2008 at 12:38 am
Hiya,
just wondered if you know the connector type connecting the screen to the motherboard? want to extend the screen, but not sure what type the connector is at the end of the ffc…
thanks
Huw
November 24th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Hi, i have to relace my laptop´s screen and I need help for that. I bought the screen and i have to put it but i think i need more details like if is to much complicated or delicated and how can connect the cables etc.
I need your help.
Thanks a lot