I have an acer travelmate 5730 and i have a problem with the touchpad buttons. The left click is always on down mode. The button is pressing too much/always. I think something is between the button and the contact. How can I see what is under the button? How can I remove the left button in order to clean it?

You cannot remove just the button. The button is a part of the top cover assembly and in order to take a look under the button, you’ll have to remove the whole top cover. Most likely the plastic button is broken and the top cover assembly has to be replaced.

The following service manual for Acer TravelMate 5730 and Extensa 5630 series will help you with the disassembly process. By the way, the manual is over 20MB file and takes some time to download.

I have an acer travelmate 5730 and i have a problem with the touchpad buttons. The left click is always on down mode. The button is pressing too much/always. I think something is between the button and the contact. How can I see what is under the button? How can I remove the left button in order to clean it?

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My next question is, can one just replace just the fan, and is the fan anchored to the heat sink with two tiny screws, or are those rivets?

I believe you can replace just the fan. If you search on ebay for Aspire 5570 fan, you’ll find both, the entire heat sink assembly and just the fan. But you still has to disassemble the whole laptop.

Finally, in order to avoid the reapplication of thermal paste, can one replace the fan only while the heatsink is still screwed to the main board by sliding the fan sideways, or are there obstructing parts which make it necessary to lift the whole fan heatsink assembly off of the mother board in order to perform the fan replacement procedure

I think you have to remove the heat assembly first. Otherwise, you will not be able to remove the fan.

Thank you in advance for your kind help.

I have an Acer Aspire 3680 and I believe the power jack has been fried. If you plug in the charger the light on the front display does not come on and it does not charge. However, if you wiggle the cord for a few minutes you may find a spot where it does “connect”….
…When the power cord is inserted into the jack, you can tell it is loose inside because the cord has a lot of “play”. A new cord did not fix the problem….

Sounds like the power jack is damaged and has to be replaced.

However, I can not find a manual or tutorial anywhere on the web that shows how to replace it. I called acer and they told me their repair manuals are not available for the public! (why?)

Here’s service manual for Acer Aspire 3680 / 5570 / 5580. It’s a pdf file and might take some time to download.

However, I can not find a manual or tutorial anywhere on the web that shows how to replace it. I called acer and they told me their repair manuals are not available for the public! (why?)

I have no experience working on laptops except for changing RAM and Hard Disk’s. I am an I.T. Student. Any help will be helpful!

I have an Acer Travelmate 2300 and it doesn’t recognize the battery. It works fine on the AC adapter, but doesn’t recognize the battery. I bought a new battery too. I went to Batteries Plus and we tried a new AC adapter to see if the batt would charge; it didn’t. We tried a new battery, and the software didn’t recongize that battery or try to charge it. I reinstalled the factory software and slicked old programs, that didn’t work either.

Any idea? Should I replace the mother board? The power board?

In an Acer Travelmate 2300 laptop the battery is connected directly to the motherboard. I believe there is no power board in this model.
If you tried replacing the battery and AC adapter but it didn’t help, there is a problem with the battery charging circuit on the motherboard. The motherboard has to be either repaired or replaced. I cannot help you with the motherboard repair because I don’t fix them on the component level.
I guess you’ll have to replace the motherboard.

Any idea? Should I replace the mother board? The power board? thanks for your thoughts.

1. The screw to remove the CD/DVD drive is under the keyboard (not on the underside of case as shown above).

2. The two screws holding the mother board are by the battery connector and on the PC card casing

3. To remove the mother board, you also need to undo the two small nuts on either side of the VGA socket on the back of the case

4. A possible killer …. the power board is part of the the mother board, not a separate board. However, if you are on the lucky end of unlucky resoldering the power jack will fix the common power supply problem.

I have photos if you want them…

Regards, Richard

i’m having problem with my wirless card im my laptop i have an acer aspire 3680 the light isnt lighting up can u help me

I don’t remember this model off the top of my head. Is there any physical switch for the wireless card, maybe it’s turned off?