Know how to dismantle (take apart) a Sager 5760?

Does anyone have a good write up on complete disassembly of a sager 5760? Pictures....anything?

 

I have done many disassemblies and reassemblies on Clevo notebooks, I would not recommend it to anyone unless if your warranty was up, or if you are confident with your skills (to not screw it up).

If you are just curious about seeing whats inside, you can open the panels on the bottom to see the harddrive, ram, and CPU. But the rest is more difficult.

 

i have done many laptops as well and i am confident in my skills, but every brand is different and this will be my first sager.

I need to strip it down and remove every screw, wire and connector....

i figured i would ask...if someone already has some pics and or a write up it will save me some time of locating hidden snaps and such....

 

what wire/connector are you looking for in particular??

 

Suplimentally, i want to clean the crap out from under the keys of my keyboard. How do you get the keyboard out of the 5760?

 

Make sure the system is off. Not plugged into AC. Remove battery for precautions.

Its simple for Clevo keyboards. All you need is a basic (small) flat-head screwdriver.
There are 4 pieces of retractable plastic holding down the keyboard.
Look at the picture that I have attached.
Just push the plastic pieces gently upward (toward the lcd screen) which would retract them to release that part of the keyboard. This should only take less than 30 seconds.

After the keyboard is released, you will find a cable under it (connects to motherboard), you can remove it if you want, just remember its position.

Thats it.

Enjoy.

 

well, I will be doing a few things.
i will be adding a small LED to the screen bezel which will turn on when i double top the CAPS button. I am adding a thumbprint reader (dear god this will be hard....and my autobody shop is airbrushing the case.
and worse....while everything is out I need to find a way to wire in an X-fi PCI sound card from soundblaster.

so thats my line up....want to help?

 

ummm.... I dont know how to start with all of that.

1) The Clevo notebooks are engineered to pretty much not give you too much room for additions such as thumbprint reader. You should just get a notebook with that already built-in.

2) The LED addition is kinda strange, but its probably the simplest of all the other usual mods that you want to do.

3) The Creative X-Fi is a crappy sound card for the money. You should just get a M-Audio professional audio card (recommend external USB or Firewire).. only goes for $70-100. Its going to blow away anything that Creative's got to offer. And yes, I guess you might feel that an external soundcard might be too troublesome, but the M-Audio Transit can fit in the middle of your palm and does not require external power.

4) You probably know that any of these mods will void all warranty with any reseller your purchase it from, as well as from Clevo themselves.

 

yes, i know it will void the warranty, lol, but that is not my concern. I have this issue with tearing things apart and making them do what I want.

The thumb print reader is an experiment which I honestly believe I can get working. I know there isnt much room inside the case, but that isnt an issue. the reader I have lined up is very small...the hardest part will be hard wiring it. I assisted with someone doing this to a laptop and it worked in the end...it was just a lot of work.

The LED light is not strange. I use my laptop in the dark a lot. the keyboard is not lit up at all except via the monitor. the LED will shine light onto the keyboard by double tapping the caps lock button, and shut off by double clicking the caps lock button again.

now, the sound card thing, that i did not know. I will look into m-audio cards. I need the best card available for live performance.

so, thats why im ripping this thing apart ) It will be a nice weekend project

 

Hey thanks for the help, that's really easy! Also, how are the keys? Are the key buttons able to be removed individually?

 

Um... probably nothing... but...

There isnt any wireing next to the keyboard ribbon connector is there? I saw a hair sticking out of there so i pulled on it. It seemed stuck at one end and then I started worrying tht it was a hair-width piece of wire soldered to the mainboard. if so, I disconnected one end. >.<

Can anyone else check?

Part of it broke off too and i think there was a folicle, but I'm not sure. ^^; I left it in there... was pretty strongly attached somewhere up and to the left under the metal plate where the ribbon attachment is.

Also its tricky to manipulate the ribbon connector, there's a little square diode or resistor or whatever thats really close, i had t be careful not to clip it with my fingernail. =X