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In the following guide I’ll be taking apart a Sony Vaio VPCF1 laptop. I’m doing that in order to remove and replace damaged LCD screen. In this guide I’ll show how to remove laptop keyboard, media button board, speakers and of course LCD screen.
The full laptop model name is Sony Vaio VPC-F11KFX/B.
Also, there is another model number listed on the bottom: Model PCG-F1114L.
It’s possible my guide will work for some other Sony Vaio laptops. If it works for you, please mention the laptop model number in comments after this post.
Before you start make sure the laptop is turned off and battery removed.
STEP 1.
Remove six (yellow) screws securing the media button board cover.
Remove two (red) screws securing laptop keyboard.
Remove two (green) screws securing display hinges.
STEP 2.
Carefully lift up the media button board cover with a sharp object and continue removing with your fingers.
STEP 3.
Media button board cover removed.
STEP 4.
Carefully lift up one corner of the keyboard.
STEP 5.
Slide the keyboard towards the LCD screen and at the same time lift it up.
STEP 6.
Place the keyboard upside down on the keyboard. Be careful, the keyboard still connected to the motherboard.
STEP 7.
Now you can access keyboard cable connectors. You’ll find two cables connected to the motherboard.
STEP 8.
There is no lock securing the cable on the small connector. Simply pull the cable from the connector.
STEP 9.
The big connector has to be unlocked first.
Move the brown locking piece about 2 millimeters away from the white base.
The locking piece MUST stay attached to the connector base.
STEP 10.
On the following picture the connector is shown in the unlocked position.
Now you can pull the cable from the connector.
STEP 11.
Remove the keyboard.
If you need a new keyboard for your Sony Vaio VPC series laptop, you can find it here.
STEP 12.
Remove three screws securing the media button board.
Disconnect the media button board cable from the motherboard.
STEP 13.
In order to unlock the connector, you’ll have to lift up the right side of the locking tab so it opens up at a 90 degree angle.
STEP 14.
On the following picture the connect is shown in the unlocked position. Now you can pull the cable from the connector.
STEP 15.
When you remove the media button board you’ll have to disconnect one more cable.
STEP 16.
Remove three screws securing laptop speakers.
It’s not necessary to remove the speakers completely. Just turn them upside down so you can get access to the hinges.
STEP 17.
Disconnect display cables from the motherboard.
Disconnect wireless card antenna cables from the wireless card.
In order to disconnect the cable, grab the gold connector with you fingers and pull it up.
STEP 18.
Remove four screws securing display hinges to the laptop base.
STEP 19.
Now you can separate laptop display assembly from the base.
REMOVING AND REPLACING LCD SCREEN.
STEP 20.
There are four screw covers on the screen bezel.
You’ll have to remove all four covers and after that remove all four screws found under those covers.
You can remove screw covers with a sharp object.
STEP 21.
Start separating screen bezel from the display cover.
STEP 22.
Continue separating the screen bezel.
STEP 23.
The screen bezel removed from the display assembly.
STEP 24.
Remove four screws securing LCD screen brackets to the display hinges.
Disconnect LCD backlight cable from the right side of the inverter board.
STEP 25.
Place the LCD screen face down on the table and carefully lift up the display cover.
Now you can access the video cable.
STEP 26.
Disconnect the video cable connector from the LCD screen.
STEP 27.
Remove LCD screen.
STEP 28.
Finally, remove four screws securing the mounting bracket to the LCD screen.
Remove the second bracket on the other side of the screen.
Transfer both mounting brackets to the new screen.
You can search for a new replacement LCD screen using model number printed on the label.
In my Sony Vaio VPCF1 laptop I had the following screen installed: LP164WD1 (TL)(A1).
I found a new screen available here for about $100.
April 6th, 2013 at 2:55 pm
Thanks.it was very useful!
February 15th, 2013 at 10:38 am
Thanks! This guide helped me clean the fan!
February 9th, 2013 at 10:39 pm
i have a f series like the one on your tutorial and i droped it off of my laptop table and the earphones were connected . but it bent the jack and brock the little blue incert and for a while i tapped the jack in ..in the right spot to get audio but now cannot do even that…seems to need the jack replaced ….now how can that be done by a dummy who is disaqbled and cannot do much with his hands…or do you know of some one who can do it…..how much and how long as i use it daily for my healthcare and corespondence and etc…..
rev. wayne vann
January 18th, 2013 at 6:30 am
In reply to post 42
Follow the instructional steps 1 thru 3, no need to go any further with these notes.
Then you’ll need to remove the rear panel, Undo all the screws on the back of the laptop. Remove the bluray drive, the hard drive and the memory slots plastice cover. Pop the rear panel up from the side the blueray drive is on, levering up and pushing slightly to the far side. Should slip off fairly easily.
Undo the DC connector from the motherboard, there is a small hole in the top of the connector, push it gently while pulling the lead.
Flip the laptop back over and undo the screw earthing the dc jack to the chassis.
Lever out the dc jack and pull throught the cable.]
Replace everything in reverse.
Alternatively you can just extract the dc jack socket , unsolder the +ve and -ve cables and solder on a new dc jack socket – quicker as there is less dismantelling, steps 1,2 and 3 from this tutorial are all that is required to reveal the socket. Undo the screw holding the earthing lead, prize out the socket.
Hope that helps
January 14th, 2013 at 3:02 pm
@ Diego,
I don’t think this is keyboard related problem. The laptop should turn on even with the keyboard disconnected.
Try this. Unplug the laptop LCD screen cable from the motherboard and test the laptop with an external monitor. Can you get image on the external screen? If yes, your problem is somewhere inside the laptop display panel? Maybe defective screen?
January 10th, 2013 at 1:27 am
Hi,
I’ve done the entire process, replaced the LCD screen, I left the keyboard cable disconnected and then I assembled everything again… But then the computer doesn’t turn on anymore, do you have any clues of where I could have get mistaken ? Or is it because there’s no keyboard connected to the motherboard anymore (wich seems wierd to me..) ?
Thanks
December 17th, 2012 at 4:20 pm
Thank you, this worked for my VPCF111FD. I had problems with the LCD showing lines and going black. I found I had a similar problem to Hernan above: loose LCD to Motherboard cable. I followed all you steps to Step 25 and checked/ re-set the seating of all the cables. Thus far it seems to be working fine. Thank you again and thanks to those folks who made comments, I found them very informative and assisted me greatly.
December 3rd, 2012 at 7:48 am
Thank you so much!
That helped to replace my broken keyboard.
Hint for those having a VPCF1 version: this model has no backlight keyboard (at least my VPCF13D4E doesnt), but the backlight connector is on the motherboard, so I guess it’s possible to replace the basic keyword with a backlighted one.
November 27th, 2012 at 4:21 am
Used this guide to replace the LCD on my VPCF13C5E. The only difference was that there was only 1 keyboard connector cable.
Worked perfectly, thank you.
November 25th, 2012 at 11:15 am
Hi there! I need the dc jack for this laptop. where can i found it? i don’t care if it’s second hand or new