In this thread you’ll learn how to disassemble and modify an Asus Eee PC. I’ll be posting new instructions and guides as soon as I find them. If you find a new guide not mentioned in this thread feel free to leave a link in comments.
Guide 1. Taking apart Asus 701 and modifying the motherboard.
Let’s say you have an Asus laptop and you are trying to install extra memory. You removed all covers from the bottom of the laptop but still cannot find memory slots. Where are they? Both memory slots are hidden under the keyboard!
In order to access them you’ll have to remove the keyboard. Take a look at this tutorial, it could be similar to your Asus laptop.
Here’s another guide for Asus a8j series laptops. This guide explains how to remove and replace the laptop keyboard yourself.
Replacing a laptop keyboard isn’t difficult, if you know what you are doing. Most of the time, because laptops keyboards seem so well integrated, it is tough to get started without knowing where to start.
With this guide you can take apart and remove major components from Asus W3V, W3N, W3A, Z63A series laptop.
This guide is to show you how to take off the top case, which is the palm rest part of the keyboard along with the Touchpad and the Keyboard frame. Removal of this part will allow you to access the mainboard of the system for repair, replacement, or cleaning. This guide will show you how to dismantle the W3V with all the screw locations and procedure to properly take it apart without damaging any of the components, reversing this procedure will allow you to put this back all together.
Here’s very useful tutorial explaining how to disassemble and upgrade an Asus W3J laptop posted at NotebookReview.com.
If you are going to open up your laptop make sure to work in a static safe environment. If possible, wear ESD wrist strap or at least touch a grounded metal object (desktop chassis for example) before you touch internal laptop components.
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.
Need instructions for replacing or upgrading the internal wireless card on an Asus M2400N notebook? Here it is. With this guide you’ll be able to remove the notebook keyboard and get down to the wireless card slot.
I used an Atheros Cardbus card for a while, using the madwifi driver, but the laptop has only one PCMCIA slot, and it was a bit of a pain to have it always occupied.
I found two different sources with instructions for taking apart an Asus L3800 or Asus L3C laptops. Apparently both models are the same or at lease very similar.
Here’s the first source.
These instructions explain how to take apart the laptop and remove the keyboard. You can use this guide for removing or replacing the keyboard and for accessing the memory slot hidden under the keyboard.
The second guide from the same site has instructions for taking apart the whole laptop. You’ll need this one for accessing the wireless card, CPU cooling fan with the heatsink, dial up mode. Also, you can use it for removing the motherboard and replacing the power jack. By the way, if the power jack is loose you can use this tutorial for resoldering the jack yourself.
The second source offers basically the same laptop disassembly guide but with better pictures taken from different angles.
These disassembly pictures show how you can access an upgrade or replace main components in an Asus A6R laptop. Almost all main components can be easily accessed through the bottom of the laptop without taking the whole thing apart.
Before you go inside the laptop do not forget to unplug the power adapter and remove the battery. Let’s take a look at the laptop components you can remove yourself and possibly upgrade them:
This easy to follow Asus laptop maintenance guide will help you to open up the computer and clean the cooling module witch included heatsink and CPU fan. This guide was created for an Asus v6000 series laptops but will work for some other Asus models too.
Due to the size constraints, notebook fans are usually small and come in small amounts, usually one or two depending on the size of the notebook. It may not sound like much, but the fan is a vital part of a notebook, and can make a difference whether or not the notebook will function well and at times, the lifespan of the notebook.
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