In middle of replacing 6920G screen but have got stuck - HELP!

I've been trying to follow various vague guides on how to replace Acer screens. The closest guide on this forum is for the 6930 but the layout is quite different once you open them up. I have so far removed the speaker cover and detached the screen from the main laptop. I have also un-popped the screen bezel but am now stuck. The proplem is that as far as I can see, I need to get the whole bezel off in order to accesss the LCD fittings but I can't because it's catching on the hinges (and the small circuit board for the AC in socket) which protude from the screen. How do you remove the bezel? It looks like it should slide up away from the hinges but mine is getting caught everytime. What have I missed?

Many thanks for any help with this.

 

have you read this guide

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Just a quick update. I've successfully replaced the LCD now and have a working screen again. Very happy indeed. What a difficult design this laptop is. You have to remove so much just to get the LCD out and it's all so fiddly and cramped.

Thanks Tinderbox for the link but yes I did have the service guide already although it wasn't much use because it only has basic dismantle instructions and left many crucial steps out. With a bit of trial and error I got there in the end!

 

Glad it worked out for you

 

By the way, very happy with the screen and the company I bought it from. The new screen was identical to the original screen (Samsung panel). I contacted thhe company before ordering and they told me they only sell new screens which are the same as the original manufacturer's. If anyone is interested I bought it from http://www.laptop-lcd-screen.co.uk

 

was the screen a 1366x768 or the 1920x1200?

 

It was the 1366x768

 

Tinderbox, posting service guides is against forum rules.

 

Hey there,

I'm about to attempt this today. Any tips/tricks you can give me regarding the process? Or.. If you could give me a semi step-by-step process as to how you did it?

Cheers,
Elsdon

 

The most important thing for me was remembering where each screw went back! What I did was to get several small containers and as I removed the screws from each section of the laptop I put each group of screws into a separate pot with a note describing where they came from.

I wouldn't be able to describe the process in detail as I did it with a lot of trial and error. I tried to follow the guide that is posted on this forum for the 6930 but as I've already said, the internals are quite different.

You first have to remove all the screw from the rear of the laptop that correspond with the speaker grille/cover. Then remove the cover.

I had problems removing the speaker cover/grille. It has to unclip all the way round and you can easily snap it. What I did was to get a small piece of thin plastic underneath and run it slowly round to make each clip undo. The screen hinges were a pain to undo and remove the screen. There are a lot of wires wrapped around the left hinge and you have to be careful not to break them.

Then I undid the hinges that attach the screen to the laptop base. Then I undid the screen surround bezel screws (there are 3 difficult to get to screws along the bottom so you have to remove the whole top lid (screen and housing - all of it) from the main laptop base to get to them. They were also insanely tight and very hard to undo without damaging the screw head - be careful!) I got stuck trying to completely remove the bezel from the screen until I realised I had to remove the hinges from the screen to release it.

Unclipping the bezel around the screen was another case of running a piece of plastic round to unclip it.

Then you have to unscrew the screen from the holding etal brackets which was easy and unplug the wiring. Then fit new screen and put it all back together.

This is how I remember it but it may be a bit wrong so trial and error may play a part for you too. If you have a go and need any help I may be able to remember so let me know.

Good luck. It's not easy but I've never done anything like it before and managed. The way I looked at it was that I wasn't goingto spend £400 for Acer to do it (I could get a new one) so the gamble was worth it for me.

 

Well. I successfully swapped screens back and forth and back and forth. My task was a bit different from yours. I was trying to go from 1366x768 to 1920x1080. It installed and worked a 'tiny' bit but was all Red and had weird stuff. I think I need to buy a new LCM cable as well.

Thanks for your help! It helped me out a lot.

 

Glad to have been of help. Hope you get it up and running. Good luck.

 

Hi All,

Just wanted to say thanks for posting. Just replaced my LCD - should have been so easy but ACER in their wisdom decided to put some screws in that are inaccessible without separating the top from the base!

If you're reading this with the intention of replacing the screen yourself - don't be put off but do be careful (and patient - there are alot of screws!)

Cheers

 

I've had the same problem. My wife cracked the screen, and I wanted to change it to the 1920x1080-screen in stead of the 1366x768.

After changing the screen, it looks like that the picture of the 1920x1080 screen is interlaced. Every second vertical line are not present. In windows it is recognized, and I can change the resolution to 1920x1080, but "50%" are missing. The white color is slightly red, sometimes slightly blue.

Did you find out what was causing this problem?

 

the WUXGA panels will require a different lcd cable. if you upgrade from WXGA to WUXGA you need to get the appropriate cable.

 

Thanks...

The cable has been ordered. Luckily I can use this screen in poor resolution until the cable arrives. I was misslead by the service manual of the 6930G, cause the service manual said that the AT-screen required the same cable as the HT. Now, without dismanteling the PC, I've ordered the 50.ASR07.002 cable, hoping that I have the (not working) 50.AUQ07.001 inside my computer.

I'll make some noice when it arrives.

 

Hi My Friends.

Have you tried the new cable (50.ASR07.002) ? What is the result ?

 

That unit has design flaw so be careful not to tight hard top of the lcd screws or lcd could brake, or in some cases had a white picture problem

 

I ordered the cable, one week later to try and write the result here.

 

I replaced the original cable with 50.ASR07.002 and everything is perfect

 

do u think the cable would work with a aspire 6930?