Acer Aspire V5-572G disassembly

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Acer Aspire V5 disassembly

In this guide I will show how to disassemble an Acer Aspire V5-572G-6679.

The guide has two parts. In the first part I explain how to access important components located under the bottom cover.

In the second part I explain how to disassemble the display and remove the screen.

Before you start, make sure it is turned off.

STEP 1.

Remove all shown screws from the bottom.

Bottom screws

STEP 2.

Start separating the bottom cover from the rest of the laptop.

Lift up bottom cover

You can use a guitar pick or any other piece of plastic to split the case.

Separate bottom cover

STEP 3.

Remove the bottom cover.

Remove bottom cover

Under the cover you can access most important internal components but before you touch anything don’t forget to disconnect the battery.

New replacement batteries for this laptop available here.

Laptop battery

STEP 4.

Unplug the battery connector from the motherboard.

Do not pull by the wires. Unplug the connector by the edges.

Disconnect battery

STEP 5.

There are no screws securing the hard drive. It’s just fitted between case brackets.

Lift up the hard drive from the case.

Upgrading this 2.5″ hard drive to a 2.5″ solid state drive will speed up the system.

Lift up hard drive

STEP 6.

Disconnect the hard drive SATA cable.

Remove the hard drive and replace it with a new one if you are doing an upgrade.

Disconnect hard drive cable

STEP 7.

The DC jack also not secured to the case. It’s fitted between plastic brackets.

Disconnect the DC jack cable from the motherboard.

Again, do not pull by the wires.

Disconnect DC jack cable

STEP 8.

Lift up and remove the DC jack harness.

Remove DC jack harness

STEP 9.

Acer Aspire V5 has built-in RAM (integrated into the motherboard) and one removable RAM module.

The CMOS battery located close to the memory slot.

You can install up to 8GB DDR3-12800 SODIMM RAM module into this slot.

Remove RAM

STEP 10.

Both cooling fans can be easily accessed.

It’s not necessary to remove fans for cleaning.

Simply blow off dust with an air compressor or canned air.

When you cleaning the fan using compressed air, block the fan with your finger so it doesn’t spin.

Very hight RPM can damage the bearing.

Cooling fans

Now let’s take apart the display.

STEP 11.

There are no screws securing the screen bezel.

In order to separate it from the display cover, you’ll have to insert the guitar pick under the bezel and pull it away from the screen a little bit.

Screen bezel

STEP 12.

Now you should be able to insert fingers under the bezel.

Wiggle the bezel to unlock hidden latches.

Separate bezel

STEP 13.

Continue separating the bezel on the top of the display assembly.

Continue removing bezel

STEP 14.

Now you can move to the lower part of the display.

Screen bezel separated on top

STEP 15.

Remove the bezel completely.

Screen bezel removed

STEP 16.

Remove four screws securing the LCD screen assembly.

Screen screws

STEP 17.

Carefully separate the screen from the display cover and place it the front side down on the keyboard.

Separate screen from cover

STEP 18.

Now you can access the display cable connector.

Display cable

STEP 19.

Remove clear tape securing the connector.

Remove clear tape

STEP 20.

Unplug the display cable from the screen.

Disconnect cable from screen

STEP 21.

Remove the screen and replace with a new one if necessary.

Remove screen

This Acer Aspire Aspire-V5-572G-6679 had the following screen installed: N156BGE-EB1.

I easily found a new replacement when I searched by the model number.

Acer Aspire V5 replacement screen


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8 Responses

  1. Will

    Hi, great detailed instructions. Would you have anything specific to removing the dummay bezel for the optical bay for an Acer Aspire V5-561G-6894

    • IML Tech

      @ Will,
      Not sure what you are asking about. Does it have an optical bay at all?

  2. nam

    Great job on the detailed instructions. Hi i’ve got an acer aspire v5-572pg and would like to know what ram it would take. Also do i have to remove the battery and follow all the steps if i’m to just upgrade the ram?

    • IML Tech

      @ nam,
      It looks like Aspire v5 can needs DDR3 1333 MHz RAM.
      It supports 8 GB RAM (use two 4GB modules).

      Also do i have to remove the battery and follow all the steps if i’m to just upgrade the ram?

      You don’t have to remove the battery but probably you should disconnect the battery cable from the motherboard.

  3. nam

    Thank you IML Tech,

    I appreciate you taking your time out to help me out with this and i will be ugrading my ram asap.
    Thanks again it is well appreciated.

  4. Aaron

    Quick question. I have a 552g – which has a similar keyboard configuration. I can not for the life of me figure out how to replace it. I can’t get the front plate off, and going in from the back hasn’t proved fruitful. Is there something I’m missing? Or are these keyboards extremely difficult to replace?

  5. TFK

    Thanks! This helped me a lot whan replacing a screen!

  6. John

    I have the same question as Aaron re: this Acer Aspire line …..how does the keyboard get replaced? Is there a way for a DIY keyboard replacement to be performed? IF you know, please post.