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In this guide I explain how to remove and replaced damaged screen in an Asus Eee PC 1201n netbook. There is a good chance this guide fits other Asus Eee netbooks. If it works for you, please mention the model number in comments after the post.
Asus Eee PC 1201n netbook has a LED-backlit screen. This screen is not cheap and replacing it in a laptop repair shop probably doesn’t make sense because the repair may cost a few hundred dollars. But if you can find a cheap screen and replace it yourself it’s a different story.
Before you start make sure the laptop is turned off and battery removed.
STEP 1.
There are six screw seals on the front bezel. These seals hiding screws securing the bezel.
You can remove seals with a sharp object.
After all seals are removed, remove all six screws.
STEP 2.
Start separating the screen bezel from the display cover with your fingers.
STEP 3.
Continue removing the bezel on the top of the display assembly.
STEP 4.
I found that in this model hinge covers are not part of the screen bezel.
You’ll have to separate the hinge cover from the bezel, lift up the hinge cover and remove the bezel as it shown on the following picture.
STEP 5.
Remove the screen bezel.
STEP 6.
After the screen bezel removed, you can remove the right hinge cover.
STEP 7.
Remove the left hinge cover.
STEP 8.
Carefully separate the screen assembly from the display cover and remove two screws on the right side.
These screws securing the screen to the mounting brackets.
STEP 9.
Remove two more screws on the left side of the screen assembly.
NOTE: the bottom screws located under a small magnet. Do not forget to put the magnet back in place when you assembled everything back together. This magnet activates the lid close switch when you close the display.
STEP 10.
Carefully separate the laptops screen from the display cover and place it face down on the keyboard.
STEP 11.
Now you can access the video cable and disconnect it from the screen.
As I mentioned before, this is LED-backlit screen so there is no inverter board in this model.
STEP 12.
Disconnect the video cable from the screen.
STEP 13.
The laptop screen has been removed and ready for replacement.
The best way to find a new replacement screen is searching by the screen model number.
In my Asus Eee PC 1201n netbook the screen has the following model number: HSD121PHW1 (made by HannStar).
You can find a new LED-backlit replacement screen here. If your screen is different, just search by the model number.
Just in case, before you purchase a new screen, I would suggest contacting the seller to make sure the new screen is compatible with your laptop.
In one of the previous posts I explained how to take apart an Asus Eee PC 1201n netbook and remove memory modules, keyboard, top cover, hard drive, cooling fan and CMOS battery.
February 1st, 2012 at 8:54 am
@ Danny,
If your original LCD screen works fine, there must be a problem with your new screen.
It’s either defective or not compatible. I don’t know what else it could be.
January 27th, 2012 at 8:57 pm
Dear Laptop Tech, I have a Asus EEE PC 1000HA with a broken LCD.
I ordered a new one from ebay and checked that the screens had
exact same Serial Numbers.
The seller checked and confirmed that their screen was compatible.
However, when I tried to replace it with a new one, it did not work.
I turned on the netbook and nothing came on the screen.
I thought I might have not connected it well enough, so I tried disconnecting
and reconnecting several times. It did not work.
Then I thought I might have broken the connection cable during my replacement.
I tried connecting my old, broken screen and it ran perfectly fine.
So I sent the screen back to the seller to get a different one.
I just got it today and tried to replace it, only to find out it not working.
Can you tell me what are possible problems the screens are having?
January 23rd, 2012 at 12:53 pm
@ George,
You are welcome. I didn’t see this comment and responded to your previous one. I’m glad it was just bad connection.
January 23rd, 2012 at 12:27 pm
@ George,
You said the laptop works fine with the external monitor so we can assume the motherboard works properly.
I think it could be related to one of the following:
1. Bad connection between the video cable and LCD screen or motherboard.
2. Failed LCD screen.
Most likely this is failed LCD but before you buy a new one, you can try reseating the video cable connector on the back of the screen and maybe on the motherboard too. It’s unlikely that cable got disconnected but try reseating it just in case.
Most likely replacing the LCD screen will fix the issue.
January 22nd, 2012 at 5:23 am
It is solved – it was a contact problem.
Thanks for the photos and adices how to take apart the display.
George
January 21st, 2012 at 6:05 am
Dear Laptop Tech,
I would like to have a question:
My girlfriends Asus Eee PC 1201N fell down of the bad to the floor. It was switched on and there was a mobil internet USB key plugged in. The USB key broke into 3 peaces.
Now everything works fine but the display shows funny colours. There are red spots everywhere but mainly around the silhouette of the objects shown on the pictures. The white is kind of light blue now.
Do you think the display is broken or any other circuit that controls the display? External monitor works fine. Would the replace of the display solve this problem?
Thanks
George
January 17th, 2012 at 4:27 pm
@ caleb carter,
You’ll have take apart the display panel as it shown in this guide and disconnect the cable from the screen.
Also, you’ll have to remove the top cover from the laptop as it shown in this guide in the step 14.
It looks like after that you’ll have to remove one more cover located close to the left hinge. I think the video cable routed in there.
January 15th, 2012 at 3:09 am
So I replaced the screen on my eee netbook only to find out that the problem was still there. It gets better and worse when I tamper around with the cable (not near the screen connection point). So I’m betting its the cable at this point. Is something that’s hard to replace? I didn’t see directions for it on either of your guides, but maybe I need to look harder. Cheers!
December 20th, 2011 at 6:48 pm
Please help me, i followed all ur directions but now i can not put my screen back on. What shud i do?
December 15th, 2011 at 2:27 pm
@ Barbara,
Test your hard drive. You can run Seatools (from Seagate site) and see if the hard drive has errors.
If there are no errors, you can try booting in Safe Mode and than use System Restore to revert the OS back to the time when it was operating properly.