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In this guide I will be taking apart a Compaq Presario M2000 notebook. The guide should work for all other notebooks in the Presario M2000 line. If it works for you, please mention the notebook model in the comments below. In my case I’m taking apart a Compaq Presario M2005US.
TAKING APART NOTEBOOK
First of all, turn off the notebook, unplug the power adapter and remove the battery.
The following 8 steps explain how to remove the keyboard.
STEP 1.
Remove two screws in the battery compartment. These screws securing the keyboard bezel.
STEP 2.
Lift up one side of the keyboard bezel with a small flat head screwdriver. Continue removing the bezel with your fingers.
STEP 3.
The keyboard bezel has been removed.
STEP 4.
Remove four screws securing the keyboard.
STEP 5.
Lift up the keyboard. Be careful because the keyboard is still connected to the motherboard.
STEP 6.
Place the keyboard so you can access the cable connector.
STEP 7.
Carefully unlock the connector by moving the white part of the connector towards the hinges.
WARNING! If you accidentally break the connector, you will have to replace the whole motherboard or use the notebook with an external keyboard.
STEP 8.
Now you can release the cable and remove the keyboard.
You will find the keyboard part number on the back side of the keyboard. In my laptop the part number is 367777-001. Do you need a new keyboard for Presario M2000 notebook? Find a new inexpensive keyboard here.
In the following 2 steps I will remove the notebook LCD panel.
STEP 9.
Remove six screws securing the display hinges (three screws per hinge).
Disconnect the LCD cable (video cable) from the motherboard.
If you laptop came with Wi-Fi card, you’ll have to disconnect Wi-Fi antenna cables from the wireless card and unroute the cables. My laptop came without wireless card and because of that there are no Wi-Fi antenna cables running from the display panel.
By the way, you’ll find the display panel part number on a sticker above the LCD cable connector. In my case the part number is 381066-001. This is part number for the whole display panel assembly including the LCD screen, video cable, hinges, plastic cover and bezel.
Some sellers use this part number just for the LCD screen. Make sure you know what you are buying, the whole display panel or just the LCD screen. Ask the seller.
STEP 10.
Remove the display panel assembly. Here you can buy a new LCD screen or entire display panel for Presario M2000.
In the next guide I explain how to disassemble the display panel so you can remove the inverter board and LCD screen.
STEP 11.
Remove two screws securing the button board.
Disconnect the white ribbon cable from the button board.
STEP 12.
Remove the button board. You can find a new button board using this part number: DACT2BPI6B2.
STEP 13.
Remove the RAM, HDD and Wi-Fi card covers from the bottom of the notebook.
STEP 14.
Pull the hard drive up and remove it from the notebook.
STEP 15.
Remove both memory RAM modules.
STEP 16.
Remove one screws securing the CD/DVD drive and pull the drive from the notebook.
If you are just replacing the drive, you don’t have to go though all previous disassembly steps.
STEP 17.
Remove all screws from the bottom of the notebook.
STEP 18.
Remove all screws securing the top cover.
Disconnect the touch pad cable from the motherboard.
STEP 19.
Turn the notebook upside down and carefully lift up the base cover.
STEP 20.
Remove the base cover.
STEP 21.
Now you can access the cooling fan.
In order to remove the fan you’ll have to remove two screws and unplug the fan cable from the motherboard.
STEP 22.
Remove the cooling fan and replace it with a new one if needed.
STEP 23.
Unplug the speaker assembly cable from the motherboard and remove the speaker assembly.
STEP 24.
The battery is connected to the motherboard via a battery board.
Remove two screws securing the battery board and disconnect it from the motherboard.
STEP 25.
In a Presario M2000 notebook the power connector (power jack) is located on a separate power connector board. You can remove and replace the power connector board without removing the motherboard.
Remove two screws securing the power connector board and unplug it from the motherboard.
The power connector board is removed.
Using the part number DA0CT2PB6D8 you can find a new power connector board here.
In a case of power connector (power jack) failure either resolder/replace the power jack or replace the whole power connector board.
STEP 26.
Remove four screws securing the motherboard.
STEP 27.
Carefully lift up the motherboard on one side.
STEP 28.
Remove the motherboard.
The processor (CPU) is located under the heat sink.
February 25th, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Hello,
Firstly Thanks for publishing excellent pictures of how to dismantle a Laptop.
I used ur pictures for repairing a cpu overheating problem of my compaq M 2010US model.
The blockage of cpu heatsink fins was compelling the Laptop to shutdown after 15 mts or so.
After clearing it my Laptop is working OK.
Thanks Once Again
Prashant
February 10th, 2010 at 7:45 am
frenchy30097,
Yes. Just follow the guide until the old motherboard is removed. Replace it with a new one and assemble the laptop.
Could be software related problem. Before replacing the motherboard, I would try reinstalling Windows from scratch. If no help, you’ll have to replace the motherboard.
February 10th, 2010 at 7:40 am
The usb ports (all) on the M2000 have stopped working. Techs think it is a motherboard problem. If I try to replace it myself, do I need to remove everything listed before removing the motherboard? Could their be something else wrong to prevent the usb ports from working. sometimes they do and then they die.
January 6th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
I followed the directions to take off the bottom cover, but part of it is stuck. A small area near the battery will not release. My goal is to take off the bottom and locate the motherboard. Not sure what I am doing, so I wanted to check before I break the bottom plate getting it off. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
December 26th, 2009 at 7:09 am
the perennial broken dc power connection with these models made a cinch to
fix
….was just about to order a repair disc from U.K.
Humble Thanx!
December 19th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Some info works for V2000!
I used your instructions for replacing the LCD inverter by removing the keyboard bezel to remove the front screen bezel on a V2000 (not M2000). The two screws to be removed that hold the key bezel in the battery compartment are in a similar arrangement on a V2000 as the M2000 but closer to the rear of the laptop, about in the middle of the battery compartment. This made is much easier to remove the front screen bezel (without removing the whole screen unit from the laptop), which I was afraid of breaking at the hinges.
Thank you!
October 27th, 2009 at 5:48 am
Thanks it is really help me to replace the mother board , apprecaited for the detail guide.
October 5th, 2009 at 8:56 am
THIS IS REALLY GOOD GUIDE. IM UPGRADING MY OLD PRESARIO WITH NEW DDR, CPU FAN, WIRELESS N, AND NEW HARD DRIVE. THIS GUIDE COVERED EVERYTHING. I WILL USE IT ONE MORE TIME TO UPGRADE THE SCREEN TO THE HI-RES LCD FROM THE NORMAL 1048×768 IT COMES WITH. REALLY GREAT TO FIND SOMETHING LIKE THIS FOR AN OLDER MODEL LAPTOP.
THANKS!!!!
October 2nd, 2009 at 7:57 am
I was impressed with how easy it was to follow , made replacing keyboard and upgrading ram on my daughters compaq m2000 stupid easy, Thanx
September 3rd, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Thanks , It helped opening my laptop to reset the cmos battery , the problem that I still have is that my usb ports gives power but it won`t pick up any usb devices. Can anybody help!