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    R200 / Z1 disassembly

    Discussion in 'LG' started by garsp, Nov 28, 2009.

  1. garsp

    garsp Newbie

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    Hi people.

    This is my first post here, but I've been a long time lurker of notebookreview :)

    I'm the happy owner for more than two years of an LG R200. I think it's similar to the Z1 in the exterior design.

    My problem is that I stepped over my headphone's cable, so I broke the 3.5mm jack. Now it only sounds if connected at a certain angle, and its very uncomfortable to keep the jack like that.

    I was thinking about disassembling the laptop to see what can I do with the jack (like soldering). I know how to disassemble the keyboard, but the white frame of the laptop has me puzzled. Does anyone know how to do it?

    Thanks in advance!
     
    garsp, Nov 28, 2009
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  2. neo-cortex

    neo-cortex Notebook Geek

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    Ah, I did something simmilar to my headphone jack because it's made of rubbish plastic. What I did was epoxy mine up so it's sturdy again. That's about all I can say though, because I have a LG R405, but perhaps the R200 is simmilar.

    From R405 (DO IN ORDER)
    1) Take off all the screws from the bottom. There may be keyboard screws, and also you should check under all the exchangeable parts, because there's probably a screw underneath the battery and hard drive (very annoying)

    2) Pull off the keyboard. There should be tabs at the top of your keyboard that you can pop off with a thin sharp object like a knife. There should be a connector for your laptop -> motherboard. Don't accidentally rip that, but you can take it out by pulling the little plastic tab.

    3) Pop off the tabs on the side of your case. It'll run around your entire case, and assuming you took off all the screws, it should be pretty effortless.

    By that point, you should see the gutted internals of your laptop.
     
    neo-cortex, Nov 29, 2009
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  3. garsp

    garsp Newbie

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    thanks for the reply :)

    I was also thinking about epoxy, but I was afraid of having to remove all the screws from the bottom. I'll buy tomorrow a small screwdriver, since some of them (specially the ones behind the battery) are really small.

    By the way, I've just noticed that all the sound card jacks are under the PCMCIA card slot, and it looks like if I manage to remove the white frame I will have a hard time manipulating those jacks since they seem to be covered :O

    I'll post the results.
     
    garsp, Dec 9, 2009
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