Time To Replace Laptop Touchpad

After trying to desperately to to fix your laptop's touchpad, but to no avail, you say to yourself, "Time to Replace the Laptop Touchpad". Laptop touchpads go bad after repetitive use or exposure to moisture. However, replacing a laptop touchpad cam be very cumbersom because you will have to take apart your laptop partially or completely.  Although the disassembly process is involving, it does save you time and money getting a techie to do this for you. Here is how to replace a touchpad.

Tools  needed for the exercise:

• Phillips head-screw driver
• Small flat-head screw driver

Now onward to the disassembly

Turn Off Your Laptop

Turn off your laptop and disconnect the power cable and any miscellaneous devices.  Then close the LCD panel, turn over the battery aand remove the battery.  Next remove the head screws securing the hardware compartment to the bottom casing of your laptop These include, your hard drive, wireless card and RAM compartments.

You can press on the retaining buttons on either side of each RAM module to release the RAMs from their compartments. Once you've removed the RAMs from the modules, you then remove the plastic covers and set them aside.After removing the plastic covers, you can either remove the screws or lift the hard drive out of it compartment(dpending on the make of the laptop).

Disconnect The Antenna Cables From The Wireless Card

Disconnect the antenna cables from the wireless card  and then lift the wireless card out of its compartment and set it aside.Now that you've lifted the wireless card out of its compartment, disconnect the screws securing the CD/DVD drive to the drive compartment located outside the laptop casing. You then slide the drive out of its compartment and set it aside.

Now remove all screws from the bottom casing. Next, tjurn the laptop over and  open the LCD panel. Now use a small screw driver to separate the keyboard cover from the laptop base. For your information, the keyboard cover is located between the keyboard and LCD  panel.  Once you've found the keyboard cover, remove the cover and set it aside.

Remove Screws Attaching Keyboard To Laptop

The next step is to remove the screws attaching the keyboard to the laptop.  You tilt the keyboard upward and disconnect the keyboard from the motherboard. And then remove the keyboard from the laptop base.

Next, you disconnect the video and antennae cables from the motherboard. Remove the all the screws from the LCD hinges and then lift the LCD panel out of the laptop base and set it aside.

Finally, you disconnect the touchpad cable from the motherboard. You then separate the upper casing from the bottom casing an set it aside.  You now remove the touchpad from the upper casing.

Finally, install the new touchpad by repeating the above steps backwards.  

That's a wrap for" Time To Replace Laptop Touchpad" Till next time take care!

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