Introduction
A healthy motherboard is completely crucial to your laptop's health and productivity and when you have a faculty motherboard, this can lead to the device running into certain problems. These problems can be not powering on at all to performance problems like random shutdowns, freezing, and blue screen errors.
Certain problems can even lead to more issues such as components not being recognized, display problems, and even cause damage to other hardware like the CPU, RAM or storage devices due to insufficient power.
Before checking out this guide, make sure to check out the Asus Chromebook C204MA Won't Charge Troubleshooting Guide to see if some these underlying issues can be addressed and resolved through the troubleshooting guide.
What you need
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Close the lid and set the laptop with down the bottom facing up.
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Use a Phillips #0 screwdriver to remove the following screws:
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Six 6 mm-long
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Four 8 mm-long
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Lift and remove the panel.
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In order to remove the motherboard to reach closer towards the battery, these are the steps required.
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Remove the following screws with a Phillips screwdriver: two 5 mm-long black screws by the upper left of motherboard; one 4 mm-long sliver screw upper middle of the motherboard and one 4 mm-long sliver screw by the bottom left corner of motherboard.
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To reassemble your device, follow the above steps in reverse order.
Take your e-waste to an R2 or e-Stewards certified recycler.
Repair didn’t go as planned? Try some basic troubleshooting or ask our Answers community for help.
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