by lwf58 » Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:53 am
Yes, but not as much as they could be. The plastics around the LCD are usually held in place by a lot of screws - five or more - and interlocking plastic tabs. One has to be careful when separating the two halves because you could break the tabs.
Then the LCD has to be taken out, and that's held by something like six to eight screws.
What I do is take off the top access panel to expose the keyboard screws, remove the keyboard, which usually allows one to get to the place where the LCD ribbon cable plugs into the graphics connector, unplug that, and then remove the hinge screws for the LCD plastics. After that, I take apart the LCD assembly and unplug the LCD ribbon cable and any other connections it might have. Then the procedure is reversed to put everything back together with the new part.
It's finicky, time-consuming work, but not overly difficult. You just have to be careful about static electricity causing damage to the parts, and not to cause damage to the plastics or lose any screws. It takes me about a half-hour to forty-five minutes to do.