Tim’s laptop service manuals Introduction Practical stuff 1. Organisation 2. Feedback 3. More resources 4. I need your help. 5. 1. Acer 2. Apple 3. ASUS 4. BenQ 5. Clevo 6. Compaq/HP 7. Dell/Alienware 8. Gateway 9. IBM/Lenovo 10. JVC 11. LG 12. NEC and Packard Bell 13. Panasonic 14. Samsung 15. Sony 16. Toshiba 17. Twinhead 18. Last updated 12-1-2011. Introduction In the same vein as in my driver guide, I’ve started finding laptop service manuals and hosting them on my site. These are the professional, official documents published by the various laptop makers, either for their own technicians or for the use of the general public. They generally detail the exact list of parts in each model of laptop – often down to individual screws, if you happen to have lost some and need to know the exact size for a replacement – and describe the procedure for disassembling and reassembling the entire machine, including panels, RAM, wireless cards, keyboards and touchpads and LCD screens, all the way down to the motherboard itself. Future proof » Tim’s laptop service manuals http://www.tim.id.au/blog/tims-laptop-service-manuals/ 1 de 16 31/03/2011 12:06 AM
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Tim’s laptop service manuals
Introduction
Practical stuff1.
Organisation2.
Feedback3.
More resources4.
I need your help.5.
1.
Acer2.
Apple3.
ASUS4.
BenQ5.
Clevo6.
Compaq/HP7.
Dell/Alienware8.
Gateway9.
IBM/Lenovo10.
JVC11.
LG12.
NEC and Packard Bell13.
Panasonic14.
Samsung15.
Sony16.
Toshiba17.
Twinhead18.
Last updated 12-1-2011.
Introduction
In the same vein as in my driver guide, I’ve started finding laptop service manuals and hosting them on my site. These are
the professional, official documents published by the various laptop makers, either for their own technicians or for the use
of the general public.
They generally detail the exact list of parts in each model of laptop – often down to individual screws, if you happen to
have lost some and need to know the exact size for a replacement – and describe the procedure for disassembling and
reassembling the entire machine, including panels, RAM, wireless cards, keyboards and touchpads and LCD screens, all
the way down to the motherboard itself.
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They’re difficult to find – you have to know where to look in their support site, or come up with the right Google search
string, or beg and steal from someone you know in the industry. There are blogs and forums that post small numbers of
these manuals every now and then; what I hope to achieve here is the most complete repository of laptop disassembly and
service manuals available on the internet.
This page, and indeed my whole site, has no ads. I do not charge for downloads. This is not a community-run project where
some files turn out to be incomplete, or the plain old user manual you already have, or completely the wrong thing. I do not
hide files behind pages designed to confuse and delay you under the guise of providing a difficult service. I do not hotlink
manuals on other sites – everything’s hosted in the same place as this page.
Every single file linked from here has been carefully handpicked, verified, sorted and uploaded by myself to make sure
this page is as complete and accurate as humanly possible. Basically, click on the model number of your laptop below,
and you’ll have all the information you need on how to take it apart.
Practical stuff
Firstly, I do not claim ownership, authority or copyright of anything here on this page. These files, and the information
contained therein, is entirely owned by the original publishers, be they Dell, Sony, Acer or anyone else. It’s possible I’m
breaking some law or another by distributing these, but I’m going to take the stance that they’re generally difficult to get
ahold of without this sort of project, and that everybody – Dell, Sony, Acer et al included – will be better off as a whole
for it having been done.
If you happen to be in a position to say I shouldn’t be hosting these files, please consider the spirit of my little project here
and think about what your company could do to support and promote the continued use of your own products. You might
also consider that there are online businesses that make a profit reselling your copyrighted material who pose a far worse
threat than I.
Secondly, I can make no claim as to the completeness or accuracy of these files. That falls back again on the original
publishers, who themselves generally use the same disclaimer. What you do with your own property is your own business,
and I cannot be held responsible for anything that goes wrong in the course of using one of these service manuals.
Thirdly, my aim here is to distribute knowledge, and that knowledge happens to be the general procedures for in-depth
laptop repairs. Actually performing those repairs is something many people, including myself, frequently charge hundreds
of dollars for.
If you do need help with this sort of thing, I suggest you enlist the help of your local computer repair shop, but remember
it’s frequently not worth the cost to repair old laptops – replacement parts for obsolete gear isn’t cheap, and the hours of
labour can stack up for even the simplest-looking jobs.
Organisation
These files are all hosted on my website’s server, and individually available by viewing the directory that contains them:
http://tim.id.au/laptops. There’s no need to go hunting in there file by file however; press ctrl+F here on this page, type in
your laptop’s model number, and chances are you’ll zoom straight to the link you need.
Laptop models that are listed here but not actually linked to a file in /laptops are probably just waiting for me to upload
and link them. If by coincidence you’re after one of these, email me and I’ll see about getting it to you ASAP.
Some of these files are quite large. If you have problems downloading a particular manual, I recommend using a download
manager of some kind. If that doesn’t help, let me know and I’ll try emailing you the file directly.
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Feedback
Did one of these manuals help you out of a tight spot? Email me – I’d love to know what the problem was, and how you
fixed it.
Do you have a legal issue to bring to my attention? Email me, and we’ll work something out.
Have you come here looking for a manual for a particular model, but can’t find it? Email me – I’ll have a look around the
net and see if I can’t find a copy hiding somewhere. I might find several manuals for similar models at the same time, all of
which I’d put up here as well, which could save ten other people the same trouble.
Have you found a service manual I don’t have? Know of another site with the same idea as here? Email me and you could
have the gratitude of fifty happy people!
More resources
http://printer1.blogspot.com/, who seem to collect service manuals for both printers and laptops;
http://www.laptoprepair101.com/, a blog with walkthroughs for anything from fixing broken power connectors to
modding laptops with inbuilt Bluetooth;
http://repair4laptop.org/, a site dedicated to owner-made repair guides and mods;
http://www.notebookrepairguide.com/, a directory of sites with laptop tech support, service manuals and
replacement parts;
http://www.laptopka.com/, hosting a small collection of home-made and user-contributed disassembly guides for
Toshiba laptops;
http://www.irisvista.com/tech/, in-depth, user-made service guides for many Toshiba laptops;
http://laptopservicemanuals.no-ip.org/, a link hub for Toshiba and IBM/Lenovo service manuals;
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/, probably the best resource on the internet for disassembling Apple devices, including
iBooks/MacBooks, iPods, and some desktop models (iMac/Mini);
http://laptoprepairmanual.blogspot.com/, another blog and the source of some of my Acer material.
I need your help.
I’ve been experimenting with this page in the last couple of months, trying to come up with an easy way for you to help me
out. I’ve long been loathe to ask for money, both as a point of pride and as a personal challenge to myself to do the best I
can without it. It’s worked well so far, and I’d confidently say today I have the largest collection of free laptop service
manuals of anybody on the net.
I’m currently getting several emails a week from readers like you asking for help finding a manual for their laptop, and my
only reliable sources are sites that want to charge for each and every one. As much as I’d like to, I can’t pay for them all
out of my own pocket as I’ve been doing, and am really at the point where I can’t go it alone much further.
So what I’m doing is finally giving in, swallowing my pride and putting out my hat for donations. Each and every cent,
centime, denari, ruble and yen I receive will go towards improving this page and collecting new manuals to upload here and
share for the greater good of the internet.
I would ask for US$10, roughly the cost of a single laptop service manual, but it’s up to you. If I’ve helped you out of a
bad spot with one of my manuals here, think for a moment and decide for yourself what my time is worth to you. Every
little bit counts, and your donation will help save someone else the time that I’ve saved you.
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Acer
Acer do have their service manuals on their site, but it’s behind some kind of member/partner login that isn’t open to the
general public. To find your 4 digit model number here, change the last digit to a zero and look for that (eg. 1694 -> 1690).