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Chromebook Pixel Disassembly

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Chromebook Pixel Disassembly, Admiring the Compacted Chaos: crwdns2935265:00crwdnd2935265:01crwdnd2935265:03crwdne2935265:0 Chromebook Pixel Disassembly, Admiring the Compacted Chaos: crwdns2935265:00crwdnd2935265:02crwdnd2935265:03crwdne2935265:0 Chromebook Pixel Disassembly, Admiring the Compacted Chaos: crwdns2935265:00crwdnd2935265:03crwdnd2935265:03crwdne2935265:0
Admiring the Compacted Chaos
  • Remove the base plate by lifting a corner or using an iFixIt suction cup to make the process easier.

  • Take a picture so you remember where all the pretty colored screws from inside the case go. (Note the Google logo colors spectrum of screws.)

  • Unplug the battery connection so that you don't accidentally short something and fry up your expensive laptop that has almost zero replaceable parts.

  • Unplug the cables connecting the screen to the motherboard, there is one for the video, one for the touchscreen, and a couple tiny connectors for the wireless. See second image for locations.

  • Remove the green screws that hold the hinge of the lid into the case. There are a number of them, and there is one on each side with a grounding/cable management clip around it, the screw isn't different than the others, but don't lose the clip. See second image for locations.

  • Swap out the screen for your replacement likely obtained on eBay and carefully replug the video and touch and wireless cables back into their connectors.

  • If you are very careful you can test your new screen and it's touch capability without screwing it back into the case, if you aren't foolhardy, you will put a couple screws in so that you can turn over the laptop without having the screen yank the cables off the motherboard.

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