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Removing the keyboard/LCD on a VGN-tx650p

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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
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I try to open the notebook (VGN-TX650P) apart but something sticking in the middle that prevent me from separating the keyboard. Can you include the picture in your post so I can understand easier? Also, after I put back the screws I notice my keyboard does not work anymore. Do you know what's wrong with it? Thank you in advance.
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The part in the center is where the solid male end connectors (i called them grips) are sticking into the front part of the laptop. The trick to them is that there isn't anything else you can do but pry them apart. You have to grab onto one end of the keyboard itself and then, with a small flat screwdriver, pry the piece out of the slot while simultaneously lifting the keyboard away from the computer. As I had said, it does take a certain amount of force to do this but it will not harm the computer.

Sorry that I can't include a picture. It wasn't my machine and the guy I did it for doesn't have the computer anymore. If you'd like to take a picture and post it I could do a diagram on it.
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I try to include the picture in here but I don't know how. I pry it hard and I heard some cracking noise and afraid that I might break something. So I put it back in and turn on the notebook and I notice my keyboard isn't working. Do you know what 's wrong with it?
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