How to open the Travelmate 243LC

I'm having boot problems wioth my Acre Travelmate 243LC.
When it was in guarantee I had a similar problem (when I press the
power button it starts up and almost immediately closes down again -
sometimes it goes into an unending start/stop loop) and I know the
last time it was because of a bad connection (dirt) around the startup
button.

I'd like to open up the laptop and see if I can solve this myself
(have ample experience with desktops but next to nothing with
laptops).

Any instructions on how to open the casing are very welcome - so far I
have removed all the screws from the back cover plus the ones under
the battery, but although the front part separates the back part
(closer to the screen) doesn't. I must be missing something...

Thanks in advance.

Jetro

Jetro a écrit :
> I'm having boot problems wioth my Acre Travelmate 243LC.
> When it was in guarantee I had a similar problem (when I press the
> power button it starts up and almost immediately closes down again -
> sometimes it goes into an unending start/stop loop) and I know the
> last time it was because of a bad connection (dirt) around the startup
> button.
>
> I'd like to open up the laptop and see if I can solve this myself
> (have ample experience with desktops but next to nothing with
> laptops).
>
> Any instructions on how to open the casing are very welcome - so far I
> have removed all the screws from the back cover plus the ones under
> the battery, but although the front part separates the back part
> (closer to the screen) doesn't. I must be missing something...

Heere the Service Manual for Acer 240/250 serie:
http://membres.lycos.fr/Krg/temp/Sm240_250.pdf

On Sep 3, 4:30*pm, Michel <michel/point/carrere-gee/arobas/orange/
point/fr> wrote:
> Jetro a écrit :
>
> > I'm having boot problems wioth my Acre Travelmate 243LC.
> > When it was in guarantee I had a similar problem (when I press the
> > power button it starts up and almost immediately closes down again -
> > sometimes it goes into an unending start/stop loop) and I know the
> > last time it was because of a bad connection (dirt) around the startup
> > button.
>
> > I'd like to open up the laptop and see if I can solve this myself
> > (have ample experience with desktops but next to nothing with
> > laptops).
>
> > Any instructions on how to open the casing are very welcome - so far I
> > have removed all the screws from the back cover plus the ones under
> > the battery, but although the front part separates the back part
> > (closer to the screen) doesn't. I must be missing something...
>
> Heere the Service Manual for Acer 240/250 serie:http://membres.lycos.fr/Krg/temp/Sm240_250.pdf

Thanks you very much! That's more than I hoped for.