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G750 DIY keyboard backlight color mod + partial disassembly pics.

villiansv
Level 11
DISCLAIMER: This will void your warranty. Don't attempt unless you know what you're doing. I take no responsibility if you break something.

Hello everyone. I've just modded my keyboard backlight color to purple and decided to share. It looks pretty nice, and takes a couple of hours of your time (if you go slowly and carefully) and a few pounds only (or none).

Be very careful when you take apart the laptop, there are a lot of screws of various sizes. You will NOT remember where they all go, so arrange them in a way that will help you remember how to put the whole thing back together.

Without further ado, let's get to it. As with any electronics, ground yourself in case you're statically charged (touch a metal electrical appliance, like a washing machine). If you have anti-static gloves, great. I personally don't.

Part 1: Prerequisites.

You will need translucent plastic, scissors, translucent scotch tape, screwdrivers (duh). You can use whatever is handy for the plastic, I personally bought a stack of binder dividers from an office supplies store. You can find them anywhere, and they're really cheap. The more colors you can get, the more options you will give yourself. Here's what I got:

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Part 2: Bottom side.


Make sure your backlight is turned on. Shut down, unplug from power, take out battery, remove the bottom panel (1 screw). Take out the rubber plugs and unscrew all the screws under them. They are easy to see, you can't miss them. There are however a few tricky screws you will also need to tackle. Take a look:

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The red ones you just unscrew. The left green one holds the optical drive bay. Unscrew it, then slide the optical drive out. This will reveal 3 screws (also in green, not visible on pic) previously hidden. Remove those. You're now done with the bottom side. If you've been diligent like I suggested, your screws will be arranged like this:

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Part 3: Remove speaker panel (the bit sticking out behind the screen).

Flip the lapto over, so it's facing you as if you're working on it, with screen closed. Grab hold of the panel behind the screen and pull up. It should come off really easy. DO NOT pull all the way, as there are wires connected to it:

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The left jack (red highlight) is what you want to detach - it's the speaker wires. Pull out the jack, here's a nice closeup pic for you:

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Part 4: Remove the keyboard panel.

Look at the following pic:

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The red highlight is where you should remove a screw. There's one more on the other side, take that off too. Now, you can lift the bit that you just unscrewed with your fingers until it pops. I've tried to show this here:

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Note that there's a gap between the chassis and the keyboard panel now. Do the same on the other side. Use your fingernails and slide them along the gap so the plastic clips holding the panel all pop. This will result in a loose keyboard panel (basically the whole top section of the laptop). Lift it very slightly and slide it towards you NO MORE THAN AN INCH (the panel is still connected to the motherboard via ribbon cables, you don't want to break them):

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Once at this stage, lift the screen side up so you can see and reach the 4 ribbon cables. I've tried to take a pic from the side:

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Unplug the two red, then the two green ones (colors are referring to my highlight).

*** IMPORTANT. These are not unplugged via force. The white plastic connectors on the motherboard all have a black latch. You open the latch upwards, then the cable comes out. When you reconnect them back later on, insert the cable and close the latch. ***

Remove the keyboard panel and put it aside.

*** OFFTOPIC - Here is a picture showing you where the WiFi card (red) and the remaining two RAM slots (green) are:

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Part 5: Remove the backlight led layer from the keyboard.


Take the laptop and put it aside, you don't need it for now. Flip the keyboard face down, like this:

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The backlight led layer is taped/glued to the bottom of the keyboard. We need to untape/unglew it. Start by removing the big red rectangle piece (go slowly, no rush), then the small red pieces (easy). The keyboard cable (green) is also taped, untape it (but do NOT pull it out, it's not meant to be pulled out). Put the big square piece aside, sticky side up. You're now at this stage:

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Unstick the long rectangular red piece (go slowly) and the corner red piece (easy). Once you do this, you are ready to start peeling off the backlight layer. Start in one corner, and peel off the short side (screwdriver is in there only to hold it up while I snap the photo):

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Then continue peeling:

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Until finally it comes off:

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Continued in next post.
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Chris_Y
Level 7
Very very thorough! Thank you very much, i will try it.
Big pat on the back!

gazzacbr
Level 10
Hi,
+1 here for the great write up.
i cant see myself bothering to change the key colours as i usually turn the backlight off anyway but will use this to change out my wifi card to a mac compatible one.
this is definately a sticky worthy thread 🙂
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gazzacbr wrote:
Hi,
+1 here for the great write up.
i cant see myself bothering to change the key colours as i usually turn the backlight off anyway but will use this to change out my wifi card to a mac compatible one.
this is definately a sticky worthy thread 🙂


The offtopic pic I included was precisely because I knew some people wanted to change their Atheros to a mac-compatible card :). Do make sure you connect the wires to the correct jacks on the card, my replacement card had the location switched. Match white wire with the jack marked with a filled-in white triangle on the card, and the black wire with the jack marked with a contoured triangle only.

Aram_yossarian
Level 8
Wonderful thread thank you +1

Bill_the_Bear
Level 7
Hi chaps,

I'm wondering if anyone who has done the disassembly could help me with a question. I need to get to the power jack which I think is damaged on my G750JH and I'm wondering how far through the disassembly this would require. Would it even require complete removal of the keyboard, or perhaps just lifting the keyboard but leaving the ribbon cables attached would reveal it? Also does anyone know what the power jack looks like on the inside? The pics above are great but don't focus on this part, ideally I'm hoping for a zoomed in and angled view of the power jack connected to the motherboard so I can try to judge if there might be some connection damage that I could repair or not before I start opening things up.

I ask because my G750 repeatedly jumps between battery and AC. This happened on my previous G73SW too and it went in for RMA three times for the same issue, each time the report that came back indicated that they had replaced the entire motherboard! I eventually got fed up and asked for a complete replacement and was told that if it failed a fourth time while in warranty (2 years) then a full replacement or other solution would be offered. As you might guess the power jack again failed but 2 months after the warranty expired. As a result of this I bought a G750 and had to dump my otherwise perfectly fine and just over 2yr old G73.

Due to the above I am reluctant to go through the RMA process again if there is an alternate option since it is likely it will involve repeatedly shipping the unit off and lengthy waits only to receive a fix that lasts another 3 months until eventually the warranty runs out and then the flawed design becomes my problem rather than ASUS's...

Thanks for any help you can give me!

d353rt3dr34l8y
Level 7
First of all, I have to say THANK YOU so much to the person that posted this walkthrough. Honestly, I didn't used the entire thing as all I was looking to do was replace the keyboard module itself, as opposed to changing the colour. I just finished fixing the issue and the new module is working like a
charm, thanks in massive part to this post. THANKS AGAIN! And don't stop posting instructionals like this! They're incredibly invaluable.