SelmaTeacher7, Mr. Berry here, today I'm going to be disassembling
the Asus c523n Chromebook. So basically what I'm going
to be doing is actually opening up the lower part of
the clamshell and that'll be by removing these pads
and the screws and then getting down to the main board
and we'll see what's in there. All right, well let's do this! Okay before
we begin I'm going to show you some of the tools
that we're going to be using you need a phillips screwdriver and also a flathead
screwdriver ones there are sizes for your laptop so
they're smaller and i'm using the whole kit on this one
here you'll also need a tool like this to pry
open the case from the back right here
so you'll need this tool so you also need a anti-static wristband
first thing you want to do is put this on and then ground yourself
to something metal, that is grounded. Okay once you have that
clip this onto something that is metal and grounded
okay i'm using a small phillips for the back here
place the laptop so that the hinges
are away from you here and i apply the tape
to keep track of where the screws are going.
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The reason why we have to remember where all the screws go is because not all of
them are the same size, some are longer than others.
Once inside, we can clean the dust out, repair broken hinges, or re-attach a loose display cable.
Okay and then the one in the center I'm going to lay him down see how all
these are standing up we'll lay him down on his side
so we remember he's the one who goes in the center
now after you removed all the screws
on this particular one is missing a foot pad but normally you'd have a foot pad
here but it the customer brought it in it's
already missing but usually you have to remove this one on some
models you have to remove both foot pads and you can do that by using this pry
tool or a flathead screwdriver to take these pads off but on this model
you only have one screw under this one foot pad all right now
what we need to do is remove this back panel from the frame
of the chassis and we're going to do that
by using this pry tool and we start with the hinges so this is the back
where the hinges are located take our tool
and pry in
as is popping up you should hear the popping sound
and that's natural there nothing's breaking it's just popping up
here we go
there's the back panel
and there is the battery so you have access to the battery
so here we see the motherboard but it can also be called the main board
and over on the side we can have the auxiliary board but it goes by other
names such as power board if you're looking for a replacement on
ebay on the motherboard we see the ram which is soldered on so it's not
user upgradable we also have the cpu heat sink which is
below that we also will notice that the heat pipe
that goes through and that's all part of the cooling
system for the cpu below the cpu we see a small chip there
that's actually the storage on this one came with the 32 gigs of
solid state storage and that is also soldered on to the main board
and therefore cannot be easily upgradeable by the user
and below and to the left of the storage we find
the display cable now the display cable is very important because it sends the
signal to your led monitor if the unit is dropped
or roughly handled this cable can become loose and so this is one of the reasons
why we actually open up the back of the chromebooks is
to reattach this cable I'm pointing out the attachment point
here now in red and basically all we have to do is
reattach it to the main board now next to the
display port we find one of the hinges chromebooks have two of these hinges and
over time and with opening closing the clamshell
of the chromebooks guess what these screws can become loose
so i've actually had customers who bring me their chromebooks
with hinges that are not securely fastened and i've had to
tighten these screws so that's one of the reasons why we open up the back is
to tighten these screws if there is dust in
here maybe it was overheating from dust you
can blow out the dust at this time you can use an artist brush
to go around this is the memory chips so you can go around the memory chips
around the cpu this is actually the cpu cooling system that we have here
there should be a vent or levers on this side
too you can blow those out
this is the storage now on other laptops from the past
the storage was an SSD card or an actual hard drive now they're just
using a soldered on chip it lowers the manufacturing cost and
makes it easier for them to build it however it's non-upgradable
you can clean around the auxiliary card or auxiliary board
if you need to replace the battery this is the battery here
and what you could do is you remove these screws
and then pull we'll pry these two up these two parts here and then
this unplugs and you can remove the battery replace
the battery if you needed to this is the speaker here's the other
speaker
now to reassemble
take the back panel start from the front of the face and press down
going back to the back of the hinge
make sure you get all these done first from the front
and then working your way back and then do this part here last by the
hinges
now reattach the screws
and there you go
now if you needed to upgrade the storage you insert a micro sd card here
and i have a video on that on what settings to actually go into
and cause it so that that is your main storage for when it downloads items it
downloads into the micro SD card and not into the internal storage
so there you go now you know how to open up the back of your chromebook
what to expect when you open it up and why
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