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In the following guide I will remove and replace the power board in an Acer TravelMate
3260 series laptop. Most likely my guide will work for some other Acer TravelMate
laptops but I dont know all models. If this guide ts your laptop, please mention the
model number in comments after the post.
In Acer TravelMate 3260 laptop power from AC adapter goes to the motherboard
through the power board. When the power board goes bad, the laptop stops working at
all and appears to be dead. In order to get access and replace the power board well
have to disassemble the entire laptop.
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STEP 1.
If you need spare parts for your Acer TravelMate 3260, you can nd them here.
First of all, turn o the laptop and remove the battery.
Remove two screws securing the switch cover on the back of the laptop.
STEP 2.
Start removing the switch cover and lift it up by the hinge cover.
Continue removing the cover with your hinges.
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STEP 3.
Remove the switch cover.
STEP 4.
Remove two screws securing the keyboard.
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STEP 5.
Carefully lift up the keyboard from the laptop base and place it upside down on the palm
rest so you can access the cable connector underneath.
STEP 6.
You have to unlock the connector before you can pull the cable and remove the keyboard.
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On the picture below you see connector in the unlocked position.

Pull the cable and remove the keyboard.
The keyboard has been removed.
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STEP 7.
Remove the hard drive and memory/Wi-Fi covers.
STEP 8.
Remove one screw securing the hard drive assembly.
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STEP 9.
Pull the hard drive to the left and disconnect it from the motherboard.
Remove the hard drive from the laptop.
STEP 10.
Remove one screw securing the optical CD/DVD drive to the base.
Push the drive from the laptop with your nger.
Remove optical drive from the laptop.
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It is not necessary to disconnect memory modules, wireless card, modem card and
CMOS (RTC) battery for the purpose of my guide . You can leave them connected to the
motherboard.
STEP 11.
Remove all marked screws from the bottom of the laptop.

Disconnect cables I pointed with yellow arrows.
Disconnect two antenna cables from the wireless card (green arrows).
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STEP 12.
Remove one screw from the back side of the laptop.
STEP 13.
Disconnect the video cable connector.

Unroute both Wi-Fi antenna cables and pull them through the opening in the
motherboard.
Remove four screws securing LCD panel hinges.
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STEP 14.
Remove the LCD panel.
STEP 15.
Remove ve screws securing the top cover assembly.

Disconnect the touchpad cable.
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STEP 16.
Start separating the top cover assembly from the laptop base.
STEP 17.
Remove the top cover assembly.
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STEP 18.
Remove two screws securing the motherboard.
STEP 19.
Start removing the motherboard from the top left corner.
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Release and lift up the top right corner of the board.
Carefully pull the motherboard from the base assembly.
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STEP 20.
On the picture below you see the power board attached to the motherboard.
The DC power jack and power switch are located on the power board. If the DC power
jack is broken, you can repair it using this technique.
Remove two screws securing the power board.
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Disconnect the power board from the motherboard.
The power board part number is printed right in the middle. Its DA0ZR1PB6D1 (REV:D).
You can nd a replacement power board here.
STEP 21.
While the motherboard is removed from the base, you can clean the cooling module.
Loosen six screws securing the heat sink assembly.
Disconnect fan cable from the motherboard.
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Remove the heat sink assembly and blow o dust using compressed air.
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3260 series laptop
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sainol Says:
February 20th, 2012 at 2:04 pm
no power in, cpu ver ho+, no signs else?
36
Laptop Tech Says:
@ Floyd Robbins,
I have a Travelmate 3260/4542 Acer. The on of button is failng. Can that

be replaced?
I believe this button is built into the power board shown in the step 20.
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If the power button is failing, the easies way to x it would be replacing the power
board.
35
Floyd Robbins Says:
I have a Travelmate 3260/4542 Acer. The on of button is failng. Can that be

replaced?
34
Elmer Perez Says:
August 1st, 2011 at 7:13 pm
Hi there,
I have an ACER travelmate 3260 .And my problem begun while my laptop was on in
battery mode then after quite sometime when I connect it to my laptop adapter to
charge it It shutdowthing prematurely and there it is no power at all .Total blackout
and cannot power on the sytem. Even in battery mode. It tried to test my adaptor to
my other acer laptop and its working. BTW my laptop battery is brand new. And one
thing Ive noticed is that my adaptor led is blinking while connected to my dead
laptop. IS it possible that the power board is the culprit?. Or is it something else?
33
Laptop Tech Says:
April 10th, 2011 at 3:44 pm
mohan,
I have an Acer Travelmate 2423 laptop and I have been having issues with
the it since last year after I discharged my battery completely. It does not
recongnize that the power adaptor is plugged-in and starts on the battery
mode. It starts beeping continuously (power led stays green and battery
led stays orange but keeps on and o) until the battery is fully charged.
The beep is so disturbing that you cant even hear any other audio sounds
that are playing. During the initial few mins (30-60mins), the power
scheme keeps switching between power to battery mode all the time
causing the system to slow down. At least after 30 mins, the system
stabilizes with the power mode recognizing the adapter connection.
Its hard to tell what is wrong without troubleshooting the laptop. Im thinking
maybe its related to the DC jack. Its possible the DC jack has to be replaced or
resoldered, maybe its not making good contact with the motherboard.
32
mohan Says:
Hello Laptop Tech,
I have an Acer Travelmate 2423 laptop and I have been having issues with the it
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since last year after I discharged my battery completely. It does not recongnize that
the power adaptor is plugged-in and starts on the battery mode. It starts beeping
continuously (power led stays green and battery led stays orange but keeps on and
o) until the battery is fully charged. The beep is so disturbing that you cant even
hear any other audio sounds that are playing. During the initial few mins
(30-60mins), the power scheme keeps switching between power to battery mode all
the time causing the system to slow down. At least after 30 mins, the system
stabilizes with the power mode recognizing the adapter connection.
Recently, all of a sudden, battery started showing completely empty and the
computer wont start at all. Whenever I press power on, a message comes up your
battery is critical low and shuts o. I left the adapter plugged in for about 5-6 days
and noticed that the batterys led turned green. I tried starting it up again and it
did. But, it wont recognize that adapter is plugged in and it stayed in the battery
mode for about 20-30 mins and then went o due to low battery.
I have no idea why this happens. Is it because of bad adapter or bad battery or bad
power board or bad hardware driver?
Please help me out with this.
I look forward to your answer.
Thanks in advance.
31
Laptop Tech Says:
Jaya,
I plan to remove the whole LCD part from the laptop, and so the board
will still remain. Then, I will use monitor to replace it as a screen. My
question is, is it possible to do?
Yes, its possible. I have a laptop like that at home and using it with my TV. Im using
this laptop for watching videos, online movies, netix, etc
Heres the catch.
The internal wireless card antenna cables running inside the display assembly. It
means, when you remove the display you have to disconnect Wi-Fi antenna cables
from the internal card. The internal card will not work without antenna cables. In
this case youll have to use an external USB or PCMCIA wireless card.
30
Jaya Says:
Hi,
I have Acer TraveMate 4100, and its kind a likely with the model in this review. The
LCD suers dead pixels (in line). I plan to remove the whole LCD part from the
laptop, and so the board will still remain. Then, I will use monitor to replace it as a
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screen. My question is, is it possible to do?
Thanks. Looking forward your advise.
29
Laptop Tech Says:
March 30th, 2011 at 5:06 pm
Lawrence,
When on AC power the battery light goes orange and then green once the
battery is charged. This leads me to think that the DC jack may be OK ?
But I am not sure where to go next.
Yep, it sounds like the DC jack is OK.
On pressing the start button the green lights on the top and front, light up
for a second (sometime 2-3 secs) and the screen changes subtlety from
black to dark grey, (there are no other signs of activity i.e noises ) and
then it all goes dead, and the green lights go out.
Its hard to tell what is wrong. Sounds like a motherboard related failure.
Try removing all not needed parts: battery, hard drive, DVD drive, wireless card,
etc Leave only major components: motherboard, memory, CPU.
Try again. If the laptop still doesnt turn on, try removing memory modules one by
one. If the problem still there, its probably bad motherboard.
28
Lawrence Says:
March 30th, 2011 at 2:46 am
Thanks for this website, extremely helpful.

I have an Acer TravelMate 2300 that now wont startup.
On pressing the start button the green lights on the top and front, light up for a
second (sometime 2-3 secs) and the screen changes subtlety from black to dark
grey, (there are no other signs of activity i.e noises ) and then it all goes dead, and
the green lights go out.
When on AC power the battery light goes orange and then green once the battery is
charged. This leads me to think that the DC jack may be OK ? But I am not sure
where to go next.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Lawrence
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How to remove power board from Acer

First of all, turn o the laptop and remove the battery.

Remove the switch cover.

Remove two screws securing the keyboard.

On the picture below you see connector in the unlocked position.

The keyboard has been removed.

Remove the hard drive and memory/Wi-Fi covers.

Remove one screw securing the hard drive assembly.

Remove all marked screws from the bottom of the laptop.

Remove one screw from the back side of the laptop.

Disconnect the video cable connector.

Remove the LCD panel.

Remove ve screws securing the top cover assembly.

Remove the top cover assembly.

Remove two screws securing the motherboard.

Start removing the motherboard from the top left corner.

Release and lift up the top right corner of the board.

Carefully pull the motherboard from the base assembly.

Remove two screws securing the power board.

Disconnect the power board from the motherboard.

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37 Responses to How to remove power board from Acer TravelMate

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no power in, cpu ver ho+, no signs else?

I have a Travelmate 3260/4542 Acer. The on of button is failng. Can that

I have a Travelmate 3260/4542 Acer. The on of button is failng. Can that be

Hello Laptop Tech,

Please help me out with this.

I look forward to your answer.

screen. My question is, is it possible to do?

Thanks. Looking forward your advise.

Yep, it sounds like the DC jack is OK.

Thanks for this website, extremely helpful.

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