ASUS MB169B Portable Monitor Teardown

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Use this guide to disassemble the ASUS MB169B+ portable monitor.

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In this guide you will be disassembling the ASUS portable monitor. Read Ahead and follow the directions to avoid damaging the display or clips holding it in place.
There are plastic clips that hold the cover in place. With a spudger insert the edge of the spudger between the faceplate and the rear cover of the monitor, as shown in the picture.
Slowly pry up on the faceplate starting at a corner and slowly prying along the outside edge of the faceplate and continuing around the entire cover.

Lift the cover away from the LCD and set off to the side.
Remove the 4 screws holding the LCD to the back cover.
Do not attempt to remove the display at this time, as it is attached to the main board.
Turn the display over, you will see a cable connector attached to the display with yellow tape.
Pull up on the yellow tape to flip up the retaining bar holding the connector in place.
Pull the connector straight out away from the display.

Remove the four screws holding the mainpower board to the rear cover.
Starting at a corner use a spudger to gently pry up the main board. Work the spudger around the edges of the main board until it lifts easily.
Before completely removing the main board, lift up on the grey tape holding down the wires and pull it away from the back cover.
*Optional* You can also disconnect the wire harness if necessary, the process is the same as in Step 2.

This concludes the disassembly, if you wanted to replace the LCD, there are two screws connecting the board on the monitor and a wire harness.
You would remove these two screws and disconnect the smaller wire harness at the bottom of the LCD and then attach the board on the new LCD.
To reassemble, follow these steps in reverse.

My LCD was dropped and the power connector lifted from the main board, I used a soldering iron to resolder the connector to the board.
However, this did not fix the problem because the pins inside the connector were damaged. Instead of trying to resolder a new connector, I found a main board on ebay that I will use to replace it.