So, we have an Asus EEE PC 900 netbook:

Specification

It is quite small and very comfortable. And in general - this is one of the most popular netbooks of all time.
He has an older brother EEE PC 901. The difference is not big - one digit in the title, a little more powerful processor and the presence of a bluetooth module. If it is difficult to do something with the processor, then with BT it is quite possible to help. In theory, after all these alterations, the happy owner will have the opportunity to listen to his favorite music in bluetooth headphones without any problems.

But, to business! We start to disassemble.

First you need to unscrew all the bolts marked in the picture above. You can immediately remove the ssd module by unscrewing the 2 screws that hold it.

You don't have to worry about sorting the bolts - there are only 2 varieties.
Wi-fi and ssd are fastened with short ones, and all the rest (16 pieces) are the same.

After that, lift the keyboard and disconnect the cable.

Under the keyboard there will be a few more bolts (5 I think) that secure the aluminum plate.
At this step, you will have to overcome the fear of removing the device from the warranty :)

I have already reached the point of professionalism:

In addition to the bolts, the plate will also be held by latches that are located on the sides of the cover and the touchpad cable, which is disconnected in the same way as the Asus EEE PC keyboard cable.

Well, here is the payoff. Pay attention to the blue spots on the chip and the back of the cover. This is a thermal pad through which the processor and bridges are cooled. The lid itself serves as a radiator (it's not just aluminum).
In order for it to be convenient to solder the eeepc board, it must be completely pulled out of the netbook case. But before that, you need to disconnect all the cables that go to it. This is a vga cable, microphone, speakers and camera. Finding them is not difficult - there are no more wires besides these. That is, you need to disconnect everything :)

Here is the VGA connected to the board

But from already and not in the plug:

After everything has been disconnected, it is necessary to disconnect the board. The latches that hold it are located in the touchpad area.

In order to remove the board from them, it is enough just to pry it with a screwdriver. Breaking them is very difficult, so do not worry about it.

Let's get up and see...

We understand that we still need to disconnect the wi-fi module of our netbook. Two wires black and white. These are the wires to the antennas behind the screen.

After that, the board can be completely pulled out of the Asus EEE PC case. And remove the wi-fi module itself so that it does not get in the way at hand :)

That's all! The board has been dismantled and is ready for upgrade.
You can admire her:

Netbook motherboard asus eee pc 900 top view:

Asus eeepc 900 netbook motherboard bottom view:

blue round - bios battery
in the middle - ddr2 connector

On the board itself, mysterious marks left to us by Chinese assemblers were discovered. The meaning of these signs has not yet been deciphered. :)

It is interesting that the cooler is located under the board and takes heat not from the top of the processor (as usual), but from below from under the board. I wonder if it doesn't overheat?
There are speakers in the front of the case. In principle, this is perhaps the standard location for them in most netbooks.

That's actually all. As soon as the bluetooth is soldered, I will take more photos and continue the story about upgrading or tuning the Asus EEE PC 900.

Disassembly and asus repair Eee Seashell series PC

Today we'll talk about the Asus netbook, which came to me with a diagnosis of "memory loss", according to the owner, it was dropped during work and as a result HDD went "to the next world" along with the information that was hidden in it.
Because I did not notice any serious damage on the body, I can assume that the height was not high, but unfortunately the disk Seagate models ST9320325AS did not survive such a test.
Let's start disassembling and replacing the disk, and in the end we will try to understand how much this device can be recommended for purchase.
In order for us to get to the hard drive, we need to almost completely disassemble the computer, because. the manufacturer did not provide for a quick replacement and did not provide an appropriate door on the back.

And so we remove the battery, then unscrew the 4 screws that hold the keyboard. Because this netbook is from almost the cheapest series, Asus engineers decided to save on almost everything, and almost the entire case is held on by latches, which must be removed very carefully so that at the end it could be put back together ...

The keyboard, also held on latches, is carefully disconnected from the main body with a knife or other flat, sharp object.

After we disconnect the cable coming from the keyboard, then unscrew all the screws that are from the keyboard and proceed to release the netbook case from the locks.

Almost got to HDD, as can be seen from the picture, the RAM, which is only 1GB, the manufacturer also did not provide for its replacement in the event of a malfunction or an increase in its volume, for Windows 7 1GB this is the minimum that is doomed to work at the speed of a turtle and contributes to a faster failure of the hard drive, part of which will work for the lack of RAM for work paging file.

If I had such a device, despite the fact that I would hardly buy it, but at the expense of the system, I would immediately remove Windows 7 and install Windows XP, which would work much faster and would not torment the hard drive.

Another disadvantage is that it does not have active cooling, on the one hand this is a plus, which consists in the fact that less energy is consumed, which increases the autonomy of work and you will not hear annoying fan noise, you will not have to carry it to the service for cleaning, but with On the other hand, such processors often operate at cut frequencies, which will negatively affect performance and get very hot, especially in summer.
Because Now the price difference between 320GB and 500GB is only $10-15, I installed 500GB, the motherboard normally recognized it and reflash it again BIOS didn't have to. Next, assemble the computer in reverse order.

This seems to be everything. I expressed my opinion, I hope you made your correct conclusions if anyone wanted to purchase. I would recommend rebuilding a little and buying at least 2GB of RAM on board, which would have the ability to replace it and actively cool the processor.

Before you disassemble the Asus Eee PC netbook, you need to familiarize yourself with the algorithm of actions. It is required to remove the cover and keyboard, disconnect the cable connectors and carefully remove the components. To disassemble the device, you need a set of standard and jewelry tools.

When You Might Need Disassembly

Why disassemble a netbook:

Overheating laptop can cause
its breakdown.

1. The device gets very hot. Temperature increase during operation - distinguishing feature line Asus Eee PC, heating within reasonable limits is considered acceptable. If the device overheats and turns off, you will have to clean or replace the cooler, and also clean and replace the thermal paste.
2. If the netbook makes a lot of noise, then the reason may also be insufficient ventilation. The solution is the same - repair the cooling fan.
3. If your device's date and time are off, it's time to replace the CMOS memory battery.
4. When a hard drive fails. If the netbook does not see it or individual HDD partitions do not work, you need a new hard drive.
5. Ripped strings. Most often, the keyboard cable fails, sometimes there are problems with connecting the matrix.

When replacing any other parts, you will also need to disassemble the device. You also need to remove the cover when cleaning the netbook.

Signs that a netbook or laptop needs to be disassembled and cleaned:

• strong noise and temperature rise, heating of the case only on one side is especially dangerous;

Dust can cause serious damage to the cooling system.

• during operation, the device turns off;
• decrease in system performance.

Asus devices are quite easy to repair and clean on their own - the main components are held on by screws and latches.

Disassembling the Asus Eee PC netbook: step by step instructions with photos

Tools required:

1. Phillips screwdrivers, matched to the size of the holes in the case.
2. Jewelry magnetic screwdrivers - needed for removing smaller parts and detaching components.
3. A plastic card or other thin and soft piece of plastic (such as a guitar pick) is needed in order to pry the latches.
4. Tweezers - needed if you plan to disconnect the cables.

By the way, check out this article too: How to enter BIOS and how to overclock Asus netbooks

• disassemble and assemble the device in the same sequence;
• if the screws do not give in, do not tighten them with force- Eee PC netbooks have soft plastic that does not tolerate pressure well and is easily deformed.

You need to remove the parts in the following sequence:

The next step is to remove top cover. Remove the screws on the bottom panel, then all the screws on the top panel. Then you need to find the sensor cable (if your model has one) and disconnect it. The sensor latch works on the same principle as the keyboard latch. In order to remove the top cover, you need plastic. It must be inserted into the connector of the locking device and slightly pressed. Do not use bank cards, they can be damaged.

Carefully remove all screws and place them separately.

The device is disassembled, you can start repairing or remove the remaining components.

To remove the hard drive, you need to find and unscrew 4 screws. By hand, you can move the HDD to the right of the motherboard to disconnect them from each other. To completely remove the hard drive from the case, it must be lifted. If necessary, you can remove the motherboard.

Step-by-step video and photo instructions for repair and maintenance of laptops.

Notebook Instructions what is included: how to disassemble a laptop at home, to clean the cooling system or replace components. Our step by step guides help you clean the laptop from dust, replace the thermal paste and put it back together, which will save you time and money. Video instructions contain general stages disassembly process to prevent common mistakes and facilitate the maintenance process.

Instructions for disassembling and maintaining laptops

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According to our instructions, you can do:

• Disassembling and cleaning a laptop fan- will help prevent overheating of the cooling system, this is considered the most common problem that leads to serious damage to the motherboard.
• Replacing thermal paste in a laptop- it is recommended to change the thermal paste once a year, this allows you to reduce the temperature of the processor and thereby increase performance.
• Laptop keyboard replacement- one of the most common laptop failures due to liquid ingress.
• Laptop screen replacement- the display is one of the most fragile elements of the laptop and if it breaks, it is impossible to restore the liquid crystal display, there is only one way out - replacement.
• Hard drive replacement- The HDD in a laptop is the most fragile part, even with a slight fall it fails. Repair in many cases is very costly, and replacement is not difficult. Also, according to the instructions, you can replace the old and slow hard drive with a new and fast SSD storage device.
• Replacement or addition random access memory into a laptop- one of the most common ways to add performance to a laptop, on a par with installing an SSD drive.
• Replacing the battery in a laptop- if the battery in your laptop is in the case and there is no possibility of a quick replacement, according to our step by step instructions you can change the battery in your laptop.
• Assembling a laptop- reassembly after completed tasks is a decisive factor that scares many away before disassembling. For each laptop disassembly instruction, there is a reverse assembly that will help to assemble the laptop in its original state.

Frequently Asked Questions about Laptop Maintenance

Is it possible to clean the laptop yourself or is it better to take it to a service center

In fact, anyone can clean a laptop on their own. For those who have not previously done this, it may seem like something very difficult, but if you do everything not in a hurry and realizing what is being done and why, nothing terrible will happen. In any case, these two options have their advantages and disadvantages. Do-it-yourself laptop cleaning is free, allows you to control the entire process, saves time, but it requires tools and consumable in the form of thermal paste, and there are always risks associated with a lack of experience or accuracy. Cleaning in the service, on the other hand, is carried out by competent people with sufficient experience (at least it should be), the disadvantages do not end with the cost of cleaning the laptop, it is also worth considering the risks associated with incompetence, dishonesty of the masters and it takes more time.

How often should you clean your laptop

The simplest answer is as often as required by the cooling system. To be precise, cleaning is needed when the efficiency of removing excess heat drops. It is then that cleaning the laptop fan will have a tangible effect. To make it even easier to control this, you can do this: in a laptop cleaned of dust at the time of loading, when the cooling system is working intensively, put your hand to the place of blowing out of the case and approximately remember the force of air blowing, well, then use this as a reference - if you feel that the laptop has warmed up and the fan is running at full speed, and the blowing is felt very weak - it means the moment of cleaning has come.

Do I need to change thermal paste when cleaning a laptop from dust

In general, there are two sure cases when the replacement of thermal paste is required:

1. When cleaning, the cooling system (thermal tube) was removed, in many models it is necessary to remove the entire cooling system in order to clean the fan and radiator from dust. In this case, it is necessary to change simply because if the thermal paste has lost its original viscosity, it will not lie back normally, that is, it will not fill the space between the chip chip and the cooling system plate, therefore, excess heat will be less efficiently transferred to the cooling system.
2. It is easy to characterize it with simple symptoms: the laptop heats up noticeably (you can feel it right on the case with your hand), the cooling system blows at full speed, the air is blown out strong, but the air is barely warm. Similar symptoms can also occur if the thermal tube of the cooling system itself fails, but this does not exclude the possibility of dried thermal paste.

It is allowed not to change the thermal paste only in those cases when the fan in your laptop can be removed without removing the thermal pipe and you do not have thermal paste at hand, in this case, simply clean the heatsink from dust with a brush.

What is the best thermal paste for a laptop

Thermal paste for the processor and how to apply it, the topic is so hackneyed that only the lazy kicked this topic. But speaking simply and without unnecessary water - by bad, I mean KPT-8, beloved by "bad service workers", for example, or a bunch of no-names with aliexpress (although it's more like a lottery). And among worthy options, the difference is not so big, for example: Noctua NT-H1, Arctic MX-4, GD900 (despite the price), HY810 (despite the inferiority of others in the series). Well, then everyone can see for himself which one he has, judging by the tests. Thermal grease for a video card is the same as for a processor, it does not have any additional nuances.

How to apply thermal paste to the processor

Most reliable way- apply in small drops, then manually smear these drops with a thin even layer over the surface of the chip (but please do not do this with a screwdriver or other metal tool, only plastic). And the basic principles on how to properly apply thermal paste and how much thermal paste to apply can be determined as follows:

1. The thermal paste must fill all the free space between the surface of the chip chip and the thermal plate of the cooling system.
2. There should be enough thermal paste to fill this space.
3. When the cooling system is fixed, excess thermal paste in the laptop is squeezed out of the chip area.

Is it possible to replace the processor in a laptop with a more powerful one

Taking into account modern realities, it is very rare when a socket is used in a laptop and the processor can be removable. A little earlier, a few years ago, processors in laptops were removable, and then an upgrade within the socket and chipset version was acceptable. Now everything mobile processors soldered to motherboard, and replacing them, if possible, is not advisable. Well, with video cards in laptops, this has been the case for quite a long time, and there is practically no opportunity to replace a video card in a laptop, only in some game series such as Asus Rog or Alienware.

How to increase laptop speed

The universal answer is simple - by improving the weakest node of the system, if such an improvement is of course possible. Helps most of the time SSD installation in place of the basic hard drive, since the latter in most cases does not keep up with the speed of the processor (system load, programs), and this rule does not work except with really weak processors, most often these are processors of the Intel Celeron, Pentium, AMD A4 families, A6.

Slightly less likely to help increase the RAM. Will the installation help the easiest way by tracking the average level of filling your volume in the task manager resource monitor, if the average load per eye is about 80% - most likely after adding RAM, the laptop will become much more pleasant to use. But there is also important nuance- not every laptop has the ability to add RAM, which is especially true for budget series, where sometimes there are no memory slots at all.

Is it worth repairing a laptop yourself

It is difficult to answer this question unambiguously. On the one hand, the lack of experience is a very significant thing, and if you didn’t have to disassemble the laptop with your own hands before, it seems that the device is complex and incomprehensible. On the other hand, most of the people who are called today “service workers” by their very existence are the best motivation to learn how to carry out at least elementary repairs on their own. The reason is actually simple - in most cases, self-taught self-taught people work in the service, they are interested not so much in repairs, but in how to do it faster and earn money. Naturally, not all of them are like that, there are also masters who love their work and know how to do it, but unfortunately, now they are in the minority. This is actually main reason why do-it-yourself repairs take place. Other benefits: experience gained, money, time and nerves saved.

As for the repair itself, it is more often simple than complex: it is not difficult to replace the battery, battery, power socket, hard drive or even matrix yourself. Well, if the repair is complex, it is not clear what has broken, for example, then the very fact that such a question has arisen suggests that it will take risks and look for normal service center.

Latest disassembled laptops

At some points in time, it becomes necessary to disassemble your laptop or netbook for maintenance work: clean the cooling fan from dust, add RAM, replace the hard drive. In some cases, this is easy to do: just unscrew a few bolts. In other cases, it is more difficult to do this - to get to right place You have to disassemble the device to the last screw. You can entrust these works to professionals, or you can, with some skills, do it yourself, while saving a little money. In this article I will tell you how the Asus Eee PC 1015 netbook is disassembled.

Attention: use this manual done at your own risk and will void your warranty!

1. Disconnect the netbook from the network and remove the battery.

2. Unscrew the screws (1) and move the latches (2).

3. Remove the top cover from the latches together with the keyboard and disconnect the keyboard cable (3).

4. Unscrew the screws holding the bottom cover (4).

5. Disconnect the touchpad cable and remove lower part covers (5).

6. In order to replace the hard drive (with a serviceable, or more capacious, or faster SSD drive) - disconnect the cables (6) and unscrew the screws (7), remove the hard drive.

7. To clean the dust in the cooling system, unscrew the screws (8) and disconnect the fan power connector (9).

Assembly is carried out in the reverse order. At the same time, we monitor no extra details left(for example, in this particular case, the previous "disassembler" completely forgot to fix the hard drive, which subsequently led to its destruction), loops are securely fastened(which otherwise can lead to either unstable operation of the netbook, or to its complete failure, accompanied by pyrotechnic effects), nothing is mixed up and all latches fastened back.

For dessert

Video from a foreign colleague about replacing the standard hard drive on a faster SSD in an Asus Eee PC 1015 netbook: