I came to this site to try and figure out how to take apart and remove the LCD on a friend of mine's laptop. Everyone seems to have the same question, "How do you remove the LCD and how do you remove the keyboard?" After some picking at it and prodding around the little laptop I figured out how it comes apart and feel it'd be helpful to post a simple step by step which will probably relate to most of the VGN series of computers.
1. Remove all the screws from the back of the case, most have arrows pointing to their locations (there are no hidden screws).
2. To remove the keyboard: This requires a little bit of force and a small flat head screw driver. There are small grips in the upper left and right corners which you can push in to free the keyboard. The force part is that there are also two other fixed plastic grips towards the middle of the top. To free the keyboard from these you have to bend the portion under the LCD away from the keyboard while pulling on the lifted corner of the keyboard itself. It takes some pressure but will not damage any parts.
3. remove the screw under the keyboard and detatch the keyboard from the mobo. Also, you may need to release the CD tray if there's an antenna on the side like there is on this model. It's got a plug connector which you just pull off.
4. Pull up, not off, the top half of the laptop which the keyboard was just sitting in. It's fully attached for the mouse and you might break it if you pull too hard. Then just unscrew the posts for the LCD and pull of the wires attached next to the processor. The main video connector is disconnected by releasing the little wire lock, just pull up on it, and then pulling up on the whole connector.
Note: when you're reattaching the keyboard you have to go under the top half of the laptop and push the grips back onto the corners of the keyboard above (they don't just snap back like the fixed center ones).
I hope this is helpful to everyone
1. Remove all the screws from the back of the case, most have arrows pointing to their locations (there are no hidden screws).
2. To remove the keyboard: This requires a little bit of force and a small flat head screw driver. There are small grips in the upper left and right corners which you can push in to free the keyboard. The force part is that there are also two other fixed plastic grips towards the middle of the top. To free the keyboard from these you have to bend the portion under the LCD away from the keyboard while pulling on the lifted corner of the keyboard itself. It takes some pressure but will not damage any parts.
3. remove the screw under the keyboard and detatch the keyboard from the mobo. Also, you may need to release the CD tray if there's an antenna on the side like there is on this model. It's got a plug connector which you just pull off.
4. Pull up, not off, the top half of the laptop which the keyboard was just sitting in. It's fully attached for the mouse and you might break it if you pull too hard. Then just unscrew the posts for the LCD and pull of the wires attached next to the processor. The main video connector is disconnected by releasing the little wire lock, just pull up on it, and then pulling up on the whole connector.
Note: when you're reattaching the keyboard you have to go under the top half of the laptop and push the grips back onto the corners of the keyboard above (they don't just snap back like the fixed center ones).
I hope this is helpful to everyone






