Asus 1015E-DS03 Trackpad Replacement

Hold the laptop using both hands with the battery facing upwards.

Push the two tabs located below the battery in towards each other using your thumbs.

Push the battery upwards and out of the laptop as shown.

Continue to push the battery upwards until it is completely separated from the laptop as shown.

Once the battery is removed, unscrew the highlighted 3mm screws (4) using a #0 Phillps head screwdriver.

After all four screws are removed, flip the laptop over with the keyboard facing up.

Use a spudger to pry up where the keyboard is attached to the laptop on all sides until it is detached from the laptop.

After the keyboard is detached, the ribbon cable which connects the keyboard to the laptop's motherboard is exposed.

Using the spudger push the white clips upwards that are holding the cable.

Gently pull the strip out of the square slot.

Unscrew all of the indicated 5mm screws (11) using a #0 Philips head screwdriver.

Before the baseboard can be fully removed from the laptop, you need to detach the small blue tab attached to the motherboard.

Gently lift up on the black plastic tab that is securing the blue tab in place.

Carefully pull the blue tab out of the dock.

Use the spudger from the laptop to 'pop' open the track-pad base, starting from the corner shown

Once the corner is popped it may be easier to use your fingers to pop off the entire track-pad base

Once the trackpad base is detached, flip it face-down.

Lift the small black tab that the blue flat cable is attached to.

Remove the 3mm screws (3) circled in red with a #0 Phillips head screwdriver.

The metal plate shown in blue will fall off by itself, replace it before re-securing the baseplate.

Detach the tape connecting the trackpad to the trackpad base, and carefully remove the trackpad.