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.
February 25th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
1001,
Could be bad video cable or LCD screen. To me your description sounds like a bad/damaged video cable, I would try replacing it first.
If you are not sure about taking it apart, please don’t. You can make it worse. Take it to the repair center.
February 25th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
mike,
Could be bad inverter or backlight lamp. I would try replacing the inverter board first, it’s way easier and you have a good chance to fix the laptop.
Did you search eBay? In my post you’ll find a link to the eBay page with inverters for Acer 5100 laptops (under the 10th image).
February 25th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Jake,
Nope, you cannot do that.
February 25th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Pat,
You’ll have to test your laptop with an external monitor attached to the VGA port. Can you get video on the external monitor? Do you see same vertical lines?
If lines appear on both internal and external screens, there is a problem with the video card.
February 25th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Blake,
Sounds like a problem with the motherboard. Did you try installing different memory modules into DIFFERENT slots on the motherboard? You can try minimizing the laptop as much as possible, remove everything except motherboard, CPU and memory. Try turning it on this way. If still nothing, apparently there is a problem with the motherboard. From my experience, CPU failures are very rare.
Doubt it. It’s very unlikely that both modules failed at the same time.
February 25th, 2009 at 8:05 am
Hi, i have an Acer Aspire 1654 WLMI. My laptop screen started flickering, freezing and making some beautiful wallpapers made by colour lines and other fancy stuff. Anyway, depending how i move the screen, it works well. Using an external screen, works perfectly.
Any idea of what’s happening? Anyone having the same creepy problem? Any solution?
Thanks in advance.
ps: i guess it’s some bad cable connection or something… but i don’t know enough about hardware and laptop disassembly to fix it!
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Hi, i have an acer aspire 5100-5840 laptop. I’ve been using it for about 2years never had any problems. Recently, i left the laptop on and fell asleep. When i woke up the screen is black, at first i thought maybe it went to hybernation mode but when i try to turn it back on it would still stay black screen. So, i pull the plug and took out the battery and put them back in again hope it would work. Only this time i find that the minute i turn on my laptop the screen would come on for 3 secs and immediately went black. After its booted i could see a faint image on my screen and i tried to press Fn+F6 but the screen would only flashes for 1 sec and back to black. I waited for a few days to try again by keep pressin Fn+f6 and the screen stay normal for about 2 mins and went black again and since then i could never get the screen back to normal again. Theres only faint lights in the background. I tested on my external Monitor and the laptop works fine. My guess maybe its backlight inverter problem??? Or is the lamp? If so any ideas where i can buy the parts or fix it?? Thank you!
February 22nd, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Is there any way to take the LCD screen out and make it into its own monitor?
February 21st, 2009 at 1:22 pm
I have an Acer Aspire 3000 Laptop. Everytime I try to boot it up, the screen blanks out with Vertical lines. If I try to Reboot, the Screen stays off, the HDD spins up, but doesn’t read, and the cooling fan starts up. I have to boot it 3 or 4 times before it works a little while on battery. If I try to Plug in my AC Adaptor, the screen blanks out like above. Please Help Me!!
February 21st, 2009 at 9:51 am
Dear Labtop Tech,
My Acer 5100 will not boot.
The Power LED is on, fan is on, hard drive light flashes for a few seconds but does not come on after, and the display stays black.
I have reseated the CPU after I was told the AMD processor may have been an issue.
I have also reconnected both 512mb memory modules, and even tested them one at a time (as you suggested to other posts). There is still no response … just the same symptoms:
-Power LED is on
- fan is on
- hard drive light flashes for a few seconds but does not come on after
- the display stays black.
Do have any other suggestions? Do you think my memory 512MB cards (modules) are both defective?
Or is this something much bigger?
thanks for your time
~Blake.