Develops practical laptop repair skills — safe disassembly, diagnosing common faults, and replacing and upgrading screens, keyboards, batteries, charging ports, storage and memory.
Syllabus Content
- Laptop architecture and service manuals
- Safe disassembly, screws and ribbon cables
- Power, charging and battery faults
- Display, keyboard, touchpad and webcam replacement
- Fan cleaning and thermal paste
- RAM and SSD upgrades; disk cloning
- Intro to board-level diagnosis and when to escalate
Learning Outcomes
- Disassemble and reassemble laptops safely using service documentation
- Diagnose no-power, no-display, overheating and charging faults
- Replace screens, keyboards, batteries, charging ports and fans
- Upgrade RAM and SSD and clone the existing drive
- Clean, re-paste and restore thermal performance
LMS Laboratories
- Fully disassemble and reassemble a laptop
- Replace a screen, keyboard and battery
- Upgrade an SSD and clone the drive
- Diagnose and fix an overheating laptop
Syllabus alignment: CompTIA A+ Core 1 aligned