So, we have an Asus EEE PC 900 netbook:

Specification

CPU	Intel® Celeron® M Ultra Low Voltage 353, 900Mhz (512kb , 533 MHz FSB)
Chipset	Mobile Intel® 910GML Express
RAM	1024Mb, DDR2 667Mhz(Maximum 2048Mb)
Screen	8.9" WVGA
Screen resolution	1024x600
HDD	12Gb SSD (Solid State Disk)
video card	Intel® GMA 900
Sound card	Intel® High-Definition audio
optical drive	No
Connection	Network 10/100Mbps(RJ45)
Wireless connection	WiFi
Ports	3xUSB 2.0, VGA, microphone and headphone jacks
Expansion slots	Card Reader SD/MMC(Plus)
Camera	1.3MP
Battery	Li-Ion up to 3 hours, 5800mAh
Dimensions L x W x H	225 x 170 x 21.5/35mm
The weight	0.99kg

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.

On this page of our magical site, we offer you detailed and illustrated instructions for disassembling a fairly popular netbook at the present time. ASUS EEE PCX101CH. This netbook model from ASUS is interesting because it does not have a cooling system as such (!), which, however, does not affect its performance at all. Apparently, ASUS still managed to somehow solve the problem of heat dissipation of the CPU and chips during their operation, therefore, the cooling system itself is absent in this model as a class - the netbook does not heat up at all during its operation :) This was made possible thanks to the Intel Atom processor N2600, which has a maximum TDP of 3.5 W and is based on the Cedar Trail core. Well, at such a pace of development of nano-technologies, ASUS will soon have at least a perpetual motion machine or a time machine :-)) disassembling netbook ASUS EEE PCX101CH .

The disassembly of the netbook itself is no different from the disassembly of full-fledged laptops and naturally begins with the removal of the battery (battery).

There are not so many screws - there are only 11 of them, but, nevertheless, in order not to miss anything, we unscrew all the screws in sequence, moving clockwise along the perimeter of the case to its center :-)

Usually, when disassembling any laptop, the engineer puts the screws into two boxes - into one the screws turned out from the bottom of the case, and into the second he puts the screws from the top of the case (this is done so as not to get confused, because it is impossible to remember all the types and lengths of the screws that he unscrewed disassembling a particular laptop). Thus, when reassembling a laptop, the engineer insures himself against improper assembly, in which quite often it turns out that instead of a short screw, a long one is screwed in, as a result of which very unpleasant bulges are formed on the front surface of the laptop, pressed through by a long screw, which cannot be removed even when replacing the screw succeeds, which leads to permanently corrupted appearance laptop :) With such problems, sometimes laptop case needs to be replaced, which leads to unjustified costs when repairing a laptop ...

Now we unscrew the screws from the end of the case in the battery compartment, there are only two of them.

Well, all the screws are out - now you can start layering the netbook case. This is easiest to do with some kind of sharp cutter, for example: a surgical scalpel. This must be done very carefully so as not to damage the case latches and the netbook case itself is quite fragile (budget plastic used in the manufacture of laptop cases is of rather poor quality, so it breaks and cracks even with little effort, this must be taken into account when disassembling laptops)

We stratify the netbook around the entire perimeter of the case neatly and slowly :)

When separating top panel(topcase) unforgettably detach from motherboard laptop touchpad and keyboard cables.

Here you need to be extremely careful not to damage the connector clamps (they are also quite fragile and easily broken if mishandled)

With thin tweezers, slightly push one corner, then the second, after which we remove the cable from the open connector.

As you can see from this photo, Asus laptop EEE PC X101CH does not have a single memory slot - all RAM chips are soldered directly on the motherboard. Thus, there is no possibility of increasing the RAM at all. For some reason, in this laptop model, the manufacturer installed only 1 gigabyte of DDR3 800 MHz memory (which is soldered on the mother), although the Intel Atom N2600 processor also combines the north bridge and the video chip (by the way, it is also soldered on the motherboard and about its upgrade you can forget) easily supports up to 2 gigabytes of RAM. On the other hand, what can you expect from a $270 netbook? A budget option as a rule, it always has a dead-end configuration for upgrading ...

Well, let's finish our short review opportunities, or rather, the impossibility of upgrading this netbook model from ASUS, and, back to the topic of this article - DIY disassembly netbook ASUS EEE PC X101CH .

The keyboard and touchpad connectors are identical in design and differ only in their size, so there is no need to repeat in order to disconnect the touchpad cable.

Now the netbook is disassembled into two parts, it remains only to remove the hard drive, module wireless network and motherboard

Extremely carefully disconnect the matrix cable

When dismantling the connecting cable of the motherboard and the communication ports board, you should pay attention that they have a slightly different design that differs from the keyboard and touchpad connectors - the cable latch opens upwards, and not horizontally. It is important! These connectors are even more delicate and much easier to break, so in no case should you try to open them in a left-right manner. Here it is best to use plastic card in order to lift the latch for the entire plane, and not for one of its edges.

Toshiba 320 GB SATA-2 hard drive (5400 rpm) fixed with four M2.5x6 screws

Under the connecting cable there is a Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n module. It has only one antenna wire connected to the "MAIN" connector.

We dismantle and remove the hard drive manufactured by TOSHIBA of the SLIM form factor with a capacity of 320 GB with a SATA-2 interface and a thickness of only 7 mm, which again indicates the impossibility of upgrading a netbook with a more capacious hard drive (on this moment the maximum capacity of SATA-2 SLIM form factor drives is limited to 320 GB). So, in this netbook, a maximum capacity hard drive is installed. Of course, if you wait somewhere for 3-6 months, then, most likely, SLIM form factor drives of a larger volume will appear on sale - 500, 750 or even 1000 Gigabytes ... Well, let's continue the simple disassembly of the ASUS netbook.

The WI-FI module is fastened with just 1 screw, it has a class "N" with a data transfer rate of up to 300 Mps, this is ATHEROS AR5B91 802.11 n/b/g PCI Express mini card

We disconnect the last cable of the 0.3 Mpx WEB-camera with a microphone going from the laptop matrix to the motherboard.

Now we dismantle the netbook motherboard:

We continue to consistently unscrew all the screws that secure the motherboard in the netbook case (there are only 7 of them)

All the screws that secure the netbook's motherboard are marked with a small white triangle or square, so you won't unscrew an extra screw following the tips from the manufacturers of this netbook :)

Now be sure to disconnect the CMOS battery (netbook BIOS non-volatile memory)

Everything, now you can remove the motherboard from the netbook case:

This is how the motherboard looks in a "naked" form: above we see four RAM chips, a little lower - the Central Intel processor Atom N2600 made on the same chip with the north bridge and the video card, to the left of it is the power microcontroller, which provides power to all the components of the netbook. Just below the power microcontroller, we see a black square microcircuit soldered to the motherboard using BGA technology, this is the so-called. "SOUTH BRIDGE" of a laptop is a key microcircuit responsible for almost all laptop ports, keyboard, touchpad, HDD and CD-ROM drive (if available). Below the processor and to the right of the south bridge, a rectangular chip is visible. This is the so-called CLOKER - a microcircuit responsible for the frequency at which each key microcircuit operates, including CPU, that is, as you know, a computer has several buses and interfaces in its structure that are connected to certain key microcircuits that operate at different frequencies. Thus, this rectangular microcircuit provides all the important elements of a computer, in this case a laptop - bridges and a CPU, with the frequencies at which they must operate in order to together ensure uninterrupted and correct work computer.

Next in line is disassembling or dismantling the top cover of the netbook in order to remove it from matrix and cable for netbook ASUS EEE PC X101CH . You need to start this work with a certain tool, in our case it will be an ordinary surgical scalpel (it is convenient for this type of work):

Along the entire perimeter of the netbook screen, you must carefully walk with a scalpel in order to disengage the latches on which the two halves of the netbook display cover are attached. You need to do this very carefully so as not to break something - the plastic from which the top cover of this netbook is made is of rather low quality, so it is quite fragile and there is a big risk of irretrievably breaking the hooks and latches and then, when reassembling the top cover of the netbook display, certain problems - there will be large gaps and gaps in the cover of the netbook matrix, which can only be removed by gluing two parts of the top cover with super-glue "Super_Moment" and similar adhesives. If you do not need this, then you need to very carefully delaminate the display cover when disassembling it. If you can’t do it and you are not sure that you won’t break something, then it’s not worth the risk - in this case, YOU better contact our service center for professional display replacement by our engineers. Believe: this work will cost you MUCH CHEAPER than independent and unskilled disassembly of the display cover :)

Break - NOT build :-))

Well, the frame of the display cover has been removed, now we proceed to further disassembly of the display - we dismantle the matrix of the SLIM form factor and diagonals of 1024x768 10.1". and under artificial lighting.

Here we see a small rectangular board of a 0.3 megapixel webcam made together with a discrete microphone

Now it remains only to dismantle the matrix from the display cover - it is fixed with four M2.5x5 screws

Now we unscrew the four screws that secure the matrix (display) cover to the main body of the laptop

Of course, when separating the display cover from its lower part, do not forget to disconnect the 40-pin cable LCD matrices with LED backlight. The cable is fixed with a piece of transparent tape, it can be easily removed with tweezers or sharp nails :)

Now the ASUS EEE PC X101CH netbook is completely disassembled, there are not so many parts, but they are all needed for the full operation of the netbook :)

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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 will help you clean your laptop from dust, replace thermal paste and put it back together, saving 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.
• Replacement hard drive - 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.
• Replacing or adding RAM to 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 air blowing force, 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 it 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 to the full, 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 are soldered on the 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 loading, 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 broke, for example, then the very fact of such a question suggests that you will take risks and look for a normal service center.

Latest disassembled laptops

We disassemble the netbook Asus Eee PC 1201n

Warning

This article is not a guide to action! You are solely responsible for the collection and disassembly of your device.
Many manufacturers do not carry warranty obligations if the device has been disassembled by the user. If you do not want to lose the warranty for your device, check the terms of the warranty in the documentation or with the device manufacturer.

Tools Used

Remove the battery. Remove the two screws securing the memory module cover and remove the cover.

After removing the cover located on the bottom panel, you can easily remove both memory modules. Spread the plastic latches on both sides of the slot to release the 30-degree-angled memory module from the slot. Then carefully remove the memory module from the slot.

Now let's remove the keyboard. The keyboard is secured with 4 latches on the top panel.

Press down on the latch with a sharp object and at the same time lift the keyboard slightly. Repeat this operation with other latches.

After opening all 4 latches, you can lift the keyboard.

Lift the keyboard carefully, the keyboard cable is connected to the motherboard. To remove the keyboard, you need to open the latch of the connector and remove the cable from it.

To open the connector latch, slide the cinnamon tab about 2-3mm towards the display. The cinnamon tongue should remain on the white base. The following photo shows the connector with the latch closed.

After opening the connector latch, you can remove the cable from the connector and remove the keyboard.

The keyboard part numbers are listed on the label. I don't know which one is the official Asus part number, but you can find the data on Google. Most likely, one of the numbers will match the keyboard you need.

Remove all screws that secure the top cover. Disconnect the touchpad cable.

The touch keyboard connector latch opens in the same way as the keyboard connector latch.

Start removing the top cover from the base of the netbook. You can use a piece of soft plastic to open the latches. For example, a guitar pick.

Remove the top cover.

You can now remove the hard drive, cooling fan, and CMOS battery.

Remove the four screws securing the hard drive. Slide the hard drive to the right to detach it from the motherboard. Lift and remove the hard drive from the netbook case. As you can see, this is a regular 2.5-inch SATA hard laptop disk.

To remove the cooling fan, remove the two screws securing the fan. Then disconnect the fan cable from the motherboard. Now you can remove and replace the fan.

Reassemble in reverse order.

Asus Eee PC disassembly may be needed in the following cases:

1. the netbook heats up and makes noise - it is necessary, check and replace the thermal interfaces;
2. the date is constantly lost and the netbook reports errors - replace the CMOS memory battery;
3. the device does not detect the HDD, the failure of the hard drive is on the netbook;
4. other problems with the contact and loops - disassemble, check the contacts, if you need to replace the loops;
5. with another, including a complex, netbook.

Despite the fact that this netbook is easy to disassemble at first glance (all 4 screws are visible on the bottom of the case), you still have to try a little.

It is necessary to disassemble carefully, observing a certain sequence. Otherwise, violations of the integrity of the case, chips, deformation, complete failure of the device are possible.

Start of disassembly

We begin disassembly for the purpose of subsequent cleaning from dust by disconnecting the battery - this is a standard requirement.

Battery in this device is removed by switching the latches on the underside of the case to the unlocked state.

We unscrew from the bottom cover 4 "obvious" bolts and the screw of the RAM compartment.

Under the cover of the OP there is another one - we unscrew it too. RAM can not be removed from the slot.


Next, you need to remove the keyboard. The keyboard is held, as in most laptops, on latches located along the top edge and recessed into the space between the keyboard and the case.

It is necessary to remove the keyboard by successively pushing the latches and lifting the edge.

In no case do we pull the buttons - we will ruin the keyboard!

Pushing the latches aside, we can find that the keyboard is held on quite firmly - it's adhesive tape that holds it in place. Gently pull up, you will hear how characteristically cracking adhesive tape comes off.

After removing it, turn off the keyboard cable by prying the mount frame with your fingernail.


Under the keyboard we will find a picture (see below). To completely disassemble the Asus Eee PC, unscrew the screws, including the screw under the yellow warranty sticker, and disconnect the touchpad cable.


After we have removed the screws from the top and bottom of the netbook, we can open the case. We take the device by the corner, and, in the absence of a special tool, gently push the plastic housing flaps apart with our nails. They will open with clicks - the case is on latches.




Further, having opened the case, we turn off the Wi-Fi module, cables - the screen (the cable may not be the same as in the picture, it does not matter) and inter-module wired connections.


We remove the motherboard by turning it from left to right to remove it from the VGA and USB output slots.


Next, directly replace the thermal paste in the Asus netbook. And this is a matter of technology. From this position, it will be easy to carry out other work - replacing the battery, hard drive, checking cables, and more.

Disassembly completed.

Assembly is carried out in reverse order.

To avoid static damage to motherboard components when disassembling an Asus Eee PC netbook, it is recommended (in the absence of special bracelets) not to move on coatings that can generate an electrostatic charge, touch radiators, stoves, and so on ...