Removing 6130HS-20 monitor.

Has anyone tried to take the monitor off of this baby. My built-in microphone on the top of the monitor has never worked, just makes lots of static that changes when you move the monitor indicating a bad connection. I'm thinking the wire got pinched somewhere between the microphone and the motherboard. I've done the thermal grease job on this one, so I'm not afraid to take it apart. Just wondering if anyone had some tips or similar problems.

Thanks

 

I've wondered the same thing myslef...considering all the fuss about the case cracking! It must be a possibility since replacements are available.

Anyone outthere with suggestions on the correct or proper way to open this sucker, don't hold back!

 

The microphone has a fairly easy access from the inside. All you have to do is to remove the front bezel of the LCD monitor, you don't even need to remove the LCD itself. You have noticed 4 small rubber pads on the top of the screen ? Remove them, and you will find 4 screws. Once removed, carefully un-snap the plastic bezel from around the monitor, and you will have access to the microphone, and its wire. The wire runs around the screen on the left, and goes tru the left hinge.

Good luck !

 

Once again, this site rocks!
Thank you very much wipeout for the tips, it saved me a lot of time. The four rubber feet at the top of the screen come out with your fingers to reveal four screws as you said. There are also 2 more screws, which are covered by the larger gray circles in the bottom left and right corners of the screen bezel. I took a sharp knife and carefully pried up the plastic gray circles to reveal the last two screws. The circles are thin plastic held on by a light cement like rubber cement. Surprisingly, the bezel came apart quite easily. I just separated it with my thumb nail and slowly worked it around. I was fearing the worst after hearing all the tales of cracks, but I didn't have a problem (mine has never had a crack). The microphone wire goes under the screen and comes out near the left speaker. The wires around the left and right side of the monitor seem to be the antenna for the wireless. One is black, one is gray, and they each terminate in a metal housing near the clasps in the top of the monitor. One of those was chafed to reveal bare wire so I taped it with electical tape.
As I suspected, my problem was a bad connection. In particular, one of the two mic wires was chafed down to bare wire which was making contact with the housing of the screen. It was near the left speaker, right at where it plugged into a harness leading to the motherboard. I wrapped it in electrical tape as well, and I'm good to go. The microphone works perfectly! What's more, another problem I was having seems to have gone away as well. At very dim monitor settings, the screen would flicker in an annoying way. I'm crossing my fingers, but that seems to be gone now. I snapped some pictures if anyone needs them. Total repair time was about 15 minutes.

 

Always a real joy to read of a successful repair story, especially one resulting from advice given here. Unfortunately what you found shows that it is not only Averatec's CS that is bad. Had you sent that in for repair there's no telling in what condition it would have been returned. [ ]

 

Big thanks to you, wipeout, nicely done! Question for you since youv'e has that case off tha back. Do you think reinforcing the case backing with an epoxy would be feasable. I'm not having any issues, however i am thinking long term protection.

 

Take a look at this: http://pages.infinit.net/thief/bigbackcase.jpg

I think it couldn't hurt, but if you carefully open/close the lid FROM THE CENTER , I am confident that it will last long enough.

 

I had the very same problem before sending my laptop for repairs for the cracks, I asked the tech that looked into it to check the inverter while it was open, and that fixed the problem. You should remove the bezel, and check the wiring of the inverter, which is located between the two speakers, below the LCD.

In case you were wondering how I managed to take pics of the back bezel, bcak in the days (which is actually 2 months ago ! ) I was working with the guy that was fixing the computers at work, so when he received the part, I opened the package to take a few pics, and I put it back. I wasn't present at the time of the repair, but I figured out how very quickly anyway. It was under warranty.

 

Right now, I'm at the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" stage. My screen stopped flickering when I fixed the short in the microphone wire, so I don't have any gripes at the moment, but thanks.