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The display panel on your laptop feels wobbly? Apparently, the display hinges are loose and it’s time to tighten them up. On some laptops tightening up hinge screws is not difficult at all, let’s take for example instructions for this Asus A8j laptop.
In order to secure loose screws you’ll have to remove hinge covers and then remove the LCD bezel.
You first have to pry out the LCD bezel cover (this requires your fingernails a lot. Start from top and look at the whole LCD cover from the side. prying open from the outside seemed a lot easier than trying to open it from the inside like the guide told me to). Before that, you have to take the 6 rubber things off and unscrew the screws beneath those.
Here are instructions for removing the LCD bezel from Toshiba laptops, it will be similar to removing the bezel from Asus laptops.
After the LCD bezel and hinge covers are removed, you’ll get access to the screws securing the hinges.
there are two screws holding down the LCD part to the hinges, and one screw (the one that’s under the hinge cover) holding the hinge down to the body. I found that my two screws were quite loose. After I tightened them, the LCD hinge was loose no more.
Tighten them up and assemble everything back together, you’ll see the difference.
UPDATE: removing and replacing keyboard on an Asus a8j laptop.
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May 12th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
[...] Here’s my previous post about tightening hinges on an Asus A8J laptop. [...]
January 9th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
the hinge consists of metal screws screwed onto a piece of plastic, terrible design.
i know at least 2 other ppl besides me who have very loose hinges and tightening the screws won’t work anymore because the plastic that it’s screwed onto have disintegrated into a million pieces. never buy this pos.
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:28 am
.. x 3 .. count me in too … I’ll be tightening mine up tonight ! [ or making new hinges ]
April 7th, 2010 at 12:29 am
hi how do i remove asus z9100e keyboard please
thanks
April 12th, 2010 at 3:59 pm
Here is the link for the ASUS A8J disassembly guide:
http://www.mediafire.com/?9utgx3g2gvy
June 9th, 2010 at 7:31 pm
My ASUS laptop is 16 months old. The hingefor the screen is broken – just from normal use – and I’ve ben quoted $299 and $200 to fix it ! This is rubbish. Parts not available in Australia – apparently. I think people need to be aware of this when buying Asus. Surely a plastic rod can’t be worht that much !
Aido
June 12th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
Adrian McCarthy,
Probably the hinge itself is cheap and you are paying mostly for labor.