How to Upgrade, Repair, Disassemble an ACER Laptop or Notebook

Acer Aspire 135x	Guide to upgrade the VGA graphics card, the VGA cards in these laptops are in the form of an Add-On Daughterboard, so changing them is quite easy, literally opening up the laptop and swapping the parts over.
Acer Aspire 1603	How to remove dust, which is blocking the air intakes and the fan, includes take apart pictures.
Acer Aspire 1642	This very detailed guide explains and illustrates how to access and replace the optical drive (CD), to clean the fan and upgrade the memory (RAM) [PDF].
Acer Aspire 2023	Illustrated step-by-step take apart and painting tutorial.
Acer Aspire 3004WLMi	The fake Acer Carbon edition project: if you want to change the look of this laptop like these furious street racer types with carbon fiber interior here is the answer - attach fake carbon fiber laminate. It is a durable laptop skin; fade proof and a hell of a lot cheaper than voiding the warranty and painting it. Some may ask why do this, well after some months of in my book bag out of my book bag a laptop often looks scratched to all hell and mighty crappy.
Acer Aspire 3020-5020	A complete step-by-step disassembly and repair guide with pictures (in Italian).
Acer Aspire 3023WLMi	Aspirotomy: detailed dissection instructions.
Acer Aspire 3023WLMi	Instructions for optical drive replacement.
Acer Aspire 5000	A complete disassembly to fix and resolder the little circle PSU port which went inside and somehow snapped of the motherboard.
Acer Aspire 5100	This guide will explain how to take apart the laptop and exchange major components such as CD/DVD drive, memory, hard drive, wireless card, cooling fan and keyboard.
Acer Aspire 5100	Let's get inside the notebook to replace the LCD display and the inverter board as well.
Acer Aspire 5315	A step-by-step keyboard removal guide with pics.
Acer Aspire 5652	Special-Tuning: how to replace the Intel Core Duo T2300 processor with a T2600, and access the two memory slots (in German).
Acer Aspire 5672WLMi	How to remove the default BIOS password by disconnectng the CMOS battery to resolve a standby problem.
Acer Aspire 6920	An illustrated (partial) take apart guide (in Italian).
Acer Aspire 7720G	How to upgrade the RAM from 2GB to 4GB.
Acer Aspire One	Here is the sequence that needs to be done to disassemble the RAM.
Acer Aspire One	How to dismantle the UMPC and install new RAM.
Acer Aspire One	Here there are some photos that may help people to open the UMPC and disassemble the face plate.
Acer Aspire One	Installing RAM is incredibly simple after the trials endured in unpacking the motherboard. This guide explains how to pop out the 512MB 5300 SODIMM piece and slap in a Netlist 1GB 5300 DDR2 piece. It also tells how to strip the case of a cheap mini USB BlueTooth dongle and solder it with four wires on to the USB terminal connectors.
Acer Aspire One	A demonstration of how to take the UMPC apart, how to upgrade the RAM, and how to add internal USB Bluetooth. Basically a micro USB Bluetooth module (Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR) has been connected to a 5V trace (off in standby), a nearby ground trace, and the USB signals (pins 36 & 38) available on the mini PCIe card slot occupied by the WiFi card. The Bluetooth module was stripped, wrapped in Kapton tape and installed under the palm rest.
Acer Aspire One	How to replace the SSD with a 1.8 Inch PATA hard drive. The UMPC SSD features the same ZIF connector found on 1.8 Inch PATA hard drives, which are small, light, efficient, affordable, plentiful, and somewhat shock resistant - all this while providing more storage and better performance than this particular SSD. Apparently, there's just enough space for a thin (5 mm) 1.8 Inch PATA hard drive under the motherboard.
Acer Aspire One	This guide demonstrates how to add eSATA to the UMPC. Here's a video and additional pictures that cover the process. This mod is pretty simple. Basically you can salvage an eSATA socket from a desktop bracket and some thin 2-conductor shielded microphone cable from inside a broken laptop - shielded cable is important because SATA uses LVDS. Then you can connect the eSATA socket to the traces of the missing SATA connector.
Acer Aspire One	A short dissection tutorial with pictures.
Acer Aspire One - AA1	Tired of having a slow netbook? No problemo! The machine has room for a memory upgrade on the board. Unfortunately, the slot is hidden away under the keyboard and motherboard, so you need to completely disassemble the netbook to find it. This very nice video shows how to take the machine apart - and put it back together after upgrading [video].
Acer Extensa 502T	Changing the hard disk drive, an illustrated replacement guide.
Acer Extensa 5420	This guide was put together in order to help some of you who want to add a 4-pin internal Bluetooth adapter into the laptop.
Acer Ferrari 3400LMi	The notebook is equiped with two memory banks. The first is placed at the notebook's downside and very easy to replace. Just remove the two screws from the front cover and the plate. The second memory bank is placed at the notebook's topside, below the keyboard. You have to remove the keyboard before you can replace the RAM.
Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi	How to replace RAM and keyboard, an illustrated tutorial.
Acer TravelMate 220	Take apart and BIOS password resseting guide (in Czech).
Acer TravelMate 240	How to remove the keyboard to access the switch 1 - SW1 which is responsible for BIOS password resetting (in Czech).
Acer TravelMate 290LMi	How to replace an Intel 2100 11Mbit/s with an Intel 2200 54MBit/s miniPCI Wireless LAN card (in German).
Acer TravelMate 312T	How to disassemble the laptop, instructions and images.
Acer TravelMate 350	Take apart just for fun.
Acer TravelMate 426LC	How to add a Intel 2200BG miniPCI WLAN card and an internal antenna (in German)
Acer TravelMate 513T	Laptop Cabrio: How to use a laptop with a broken display as a desktop PC (in German).
Acer TravelMate 513T	How to change the CD-Drive. Upgrading the hard drive (in German).
Acer TravelMate 522TXV	A selfmade DIY digital picture frame - or how to turn an old laptop into something useful. Includes a illustrated disassembly guide.
Acer Travelmate 613TXV	Complete disassembly with pictures to get the BIOS password recovered (in German).
Acer TravelMate 740	How to clean the CPU fan, a disassembly picture gallery.
Acer TravelMate 800	Miscellaneous tips and tricks for selfmade notebook repairs, how to replace the touchpad (in German).
Acer TravelMate 800LCi	A short guide explaining how to remove the laptop keyboard (in German).
Acer TravelMate 801LCi	How to upgrade both RAM slots, with 2x512MB (in German).
Acer TravelMate 803LMi	How to remove the keyboard and upgrade the notebook RAM to 1GB So-DIMM.
Acer TravelMate 803LMi	How to put a new internal burner LG GWA-4082N into an old laptop.
Acer TravelMate 2493NWLMi	This blog entry describes how to replace the CD/DVD drive in the notebook (in Czech).
Acer TravelMate 3004WTMi	The notebook comes with an Intel 2200 b/g WiFi card, which has 100mW (20dBi) output power (nice), this card has been replaced by a Wistron NeWeb CM9 from Netgate, which is in fact a 5004 MP Atheros 4G: 802.11a/b/g miniPCI Card. Includes hard disk downgrading instructions.
Acer TravelMate 4000	Pimp your laptop with foils. Instead of painting this modding is a fast and easy approach to cover the outworn outfit of your laptop (in German).
Acer TravelMate 4002	This guide explains how to replace the optical drive.
Acer TravelMate 4652LMi	Display hinge replacement tutorial.
Acer TravelMate 6003LCi	How to replace the RAM memory in a hidden second slot under the keyboard.
Acer TravelMate 6463(W)LMi	A short guide about how to upgrade RAM from 1GB to 2GB (in German).
Acer TravelMate 6592G	This is the guide to replace the keyboard on this laptop. It is fairly straight forward to do and all the tools you need are: #1 Phillips screwdriver and a small flat screwdriver.
Acer TravelMate C1xx	An upgrade tutorial for the Tablet PC hard drive.
Acer TravelMate C100	How to upgrade the hard drive.