Acer Nitro 5 AN517-52 Basic Teardown

ID: 155317

Description: The Acer Nitro 5 laptop has several variants....

Steps:

  1. Remove the 12 Philips screws on the back. Slip fingernails in cracks and snap open the back all around. Be gentle and it will come off.
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  2. Remove the 2 Philips screws holding the battery. Gently twist counter-clockwise to release the corners. Unplug the connector straight, without twisting.
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  3. Fans are great at removing dust from the room then do not work well. Look at the right fan in the picture - dusty. Some dust can be removed with tweezers. Other dust can be blown off with a can of compressed air but put a finger on the fan to prevent it from spinning. Note that replacing the fans is not simple due to heatsink complications.
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  4. Replacement of the SSD/HDD is suprisingly simple. Remove the 4 Philips screws, slide the drive straight to the side.
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  5. The small button cell is in black heatshrink, held in with one connector only. Unplug it. If you know what you are doing, solder in a new one otherwise replace the assembly.
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  6. I you crank up the toons [sic] too much and break a speaker, they are simple to replace. Unscrew them and unplug the connectors.
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  7. Keyboard replacement is quite involved and susceptible to fatal damage to the laptop due to connector damage. It involves removing the battery, fans/heatsink assembly, I/O boards, shields, mother board and cutting plastic standoffs, then plastic welding them back with the new kbd. This procedure will not be covered here.
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