Hi everybody, this is Guido with Lenovo and I am here with the ideapad 100-15IBY.
Today we’re going to be replacing the optical drive.
The process will take us around 15 minutes,
so you might want to have a little practice at working with computers before trying this one.
The tools required will be a Phillips screwdriver and a plastic prying tool.
Now before you continue make sure you are protected against static electricity, or electrostatic discharge.
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Now, first of all power off your machine, and disconnect all cables and accessories from
the system once it is completely powered off.
Then, place your machine on a flat, hard surface
and you’re ready to begin.
Ok? Let’s get started.
Alright, so after we make sure we have no static electricity on our body we can get started.
First thing to do is we have to remove three screws on the bottom case,
and it’s easy to find them because there is a small keyboard symbol engraved on the case.
So we first remove these three screws.
One.
Second one.
And the third one.
After we complete this, next step is turn the machine upside down (face up),
and then we have to open the lid.
And now we have to remove the keyboard.
As you can see there is no screw on top of the keyboard,
so we have to pry open the keyboard
and disengage it from the keyboard bezel.
So what we can do first is that we
try to slide a little bit the keyboard
downward, so that there is a little bit of space on the top edge.
We can see that there are one, two, three, four, and five plastic tabs inside the keyboard bezel
that we have to disengage, that we have to pry open.
So, using a plastic tool like this spudger we can apply
a little bit of leverage near the plastic tabs.
You see that we are lifting the keyboard up
Now we have pried open the top side of the keyboard,
the side is still engaged, but we can flex the sides of the keyboard a little bit
so that we can free the keyboard from the plastic tabs.
Next step is sliding the keyboard up like this so that we have disengaged the
bottom plastic tabs. Now we have to remove the cable to disconnect the keyboard.
Using your fingernails, maybe that's easier, just open the lock
then take out the cable. You can just pull it out. Okay, so we remove the keyboard.
Alright, after removing the keyboard we can now have access to the
optical drive. The thing we have to do is remove the single screw that retains the optical
drive to the chassis. So let us remove this screw here.
After we remove the screw we have to slide the optical drive out of its bay.
We can push from here or pull from outside and slide the optical drive out.
The last thing we have to do is if our replacement optical drive doesn’t come with the bezel
and the bracket, we have to take them from the original unit. How to do that?
Well for the bezel
You see this small hole on the front? You have to take a paper clip,
take a paper clip and straighten it out.
Then you can insert it into the small hole here, unlock the optical drive bay.
Once it is open,
then there are four plastic hooks that we have to pry open. The best thing we can do is just to
use some force on this starting from this corner and then slightly open it and pry open the four plastic hooks.
And then for the bracket we just have to remove
one screw and it’s easy to just take it away.
Now we take our replacement optical drive,
first we install the bracket like this.
We install one screw.
Then we have to open the drive bay,
so we take the paper clip again, there is a small hole here and we open it.
Then we take the bezel, we start from the bigger plastic hook here at the bottom, we insert it.
Then we make sure all the plastic hooks are inserted,
and then we push until we hear the click.
And we are ready.
Now we have to slide the optical drive back into its bay, until we see the
bracket from here. Now we have to re-install the screw.
One thing to notice is that the screw from the bottom cover and the
screw for the optical drive are of different size,
so we may want to be careful about that. So we just replace the screw here, we install the screw.
And we are done.
Now to install the keyboard,
So we place the keyboard in position, face up.
We see that the ribbon cable is on the bottom so we pull it out so it is visible.
And then we have to first connect the keyboard cable.
We put the cable like this and using the other finger we just lock it to the main board.
So now that we have connected the cable it’s time to install the keyboard. We have to engage the
bottom tabs of the keyboard itself into the keyboard bezel. Next step will be engaging the sides.
by flexing it a little bit. We see there is enough room, actually it is already in.
Then we have to snap into place the top plastic bezel. We have to make sure that all of them
One, two,
three, four,
and five.
We hear the sound so they are all in place.
When you have done that we can see the keyboard is flat into the keyboard bezel,
so it means that it is correctly installed.
And that is it.
Next thing is to install the screws, so we close the lid,
and turn the machine face-down on the table, and we have
the position of the three screws. As we said there is a little keyboard symbol engraved on the cover.
One.
Two.
And three.
And that is it.