How to Replace your Laptop’s Backlight

With everything going mainstream, it’s getting harder and harder fo have something you can truly call your “own”. Since most products nowadays are being mass-produced, it’s not out of ordinary to see other people having the exact same gadget, in this case, laptop as yours. We can’t teach you how to build a laptop to make it truly original, but we can do the next best thing – show you how to personlize it by changing its backlight.

First Step

Laptop

Unplug your laptop from the power source and for good measure take the battery out as well. Remove several screws under little stick on rubber pads to unattach the display from the laptop’s main body. The LCD has a metal frame around it that has to be removed as well.

Second Step

Bulb

Detach the housing from the main LCD frame to get more access to the metal housing that has the power leads coming out that held the bulb. Use a small screwdriver behind the rubber caps and slowly work out the bulb out of the housing.

The rest of the steps await after the jump!

With everything going mainstream, it’s getting harder and harder fo have something you can truly call your “own”. Since most products nowadays are being mass-produced, it’s not out of ordinary to see other people having the exact same gadget, in this case, laptop as yours. We can’t teach you how to build a laptop to make it truly original, but we can do the next best thing – show you how to personlize it by changing its backlight.

First Step

Laptop

Unplug your laptop from the power source and for good measure take the battery out as well. Remove several screws under little stick on rubber pads to unattach the display from the laptop’s main body. The LCD has a metal frame around it that has to be removed as well.

Second Step

Bulb

Detach the housing from the main LCD frame to get more access to the metal housing that has the power leads coming out that held the bulb. Use a small screwdriver behind the rubber caps and slowly work out the bulb out of the housing.

Third Step

Rubber Caps

Take the rubber caps off of the end of the bulbs and up the wire. Take your side-cutters and snip the power cables as close to the bulb as possible. Strip off just enough of the cable’s insulation to make a loop around the conductor for the new bulb, around 2-3mm. Solder it and cut the excess wire from the bulb.  Slip the rubber caps back on and put the LCD back together.

Fourth Step

New Bulb

Now you can test your newly put backlight. If in any case it doesn’t work, you could try replacing the inverter. Replacing the inverter was just a matter of unhooking a couple of cables. It took longer to un-package the new inverter then to install it.

Via pcgeekdom

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