Removing/Replacing The Cd Tray; Step 1 - Remove The Battery; Step 2 - Remove Top Cover - Acer Aspire 1642 Disassembly Manual

Removing/Replacing the CD Tray

Step 1 – Remove the Battery
This should be pretty self explanatory. If you can't do this, stop here, don't attempt anything else!!
Removing the battery isn't actually critical to any of the following steps, but it's always safer if there is
no power through the machine when you are working on it.
Step 2 – Remove top cover
We need to remove 3 screws on the back of the laptop (Circled). These are 2 on the left (Fig. 1), and 1 on
the right (Fig. 2).
Fig. 1 Fig. 2
After removing the screws turn the laptop over and open up the screen until it is flat with the laptop.
You can now lift up the top plastic cover which has the power and Acer buttons embedded in it. This
should lift up from the back with little resistance. Fig.3 is the laptop with this cover removed.