Refer to the guide. You can upgrade, clean your Aspire E15 E5-571G. Looking for more guides? Follow us on for all the latest repair news. Unlock and remove the battery. Remove all screws from the bottom case. I do not understand why Acer does not install a real optical drive. The optical drive bracket Turn over the laptop, starting to pry up the palm rest with a guitar pick. Insert the guitar picks between the palm rest and base. Open the palm rest, be careful, touchpad cable still connected to the motherboard. Disconnect the touchpad cable. The back of the palm rest, you can get access to the touchpad and keyboard, you can remove and replace the keyboard if necessary. Under the palm rest, you can get access to the hard drive, wireless card and cooling fan. Disconnect the white cable, remove two screws securing the hard drive module, you can remove the hard drive module. The wireless card model: T77H436. Remove two screws securing the cooling fan and disconnect the cooling fan cable. Aspire E15 E5-571G cooling fan comes from Foxconn. It comes with a Kingston 4GB PC3L-12800S RAM. Thank you so much for posting this. I was thinking of upgrading the RAM in this and I was going batty trying to figure out how in the world you were supposed to get this thing apart. I also have to agree out the DVD drive thing, unless it was left out to make this computer even less expensive than it already is. Personally, I can count on one hand how many times in the past 3 years I have had to use a DVD drive. The keyboard snaps into place onto the base. After removing all the screws from the bottom and removing the dvd drive, you need to pry the keyboard from the base. Pull them apart and where there is an opening insert a wedge I used a butter knife and pry gently. You will here the snaps as it dislodges. Do this around the perimeter and the keyboard will come loose. Then there are three ribbon cables touchpad, keyboard, power switch which need to be disconnected at the motherboard to free the keyboard. These ribbon cables do not have connectors, just wiggle them as you gently pull away from where they are inserted into the motherboard and they will come free. Hi, firstly I would like to say thank you for the article. Can the keyboard alone be removed and cleaned or as Eric said can it be replaced? The bottom of the recess is actually a sliding catch, so stick a pen or something like that in the round hole, and slide it to the right. That should release the battery. It took me a while to find this, too. What a great disassembly guide. I was able to upgrade to 8gb memory, which this computer needs especially with external monitors. I replaced a keyboard on a similar model asus where the key labels had rubbed off. These asus computers with chiclet keyboards have the keyboard permanently locked to the palm rest. You have to break a LOT of plastic and even bend some metal to pry them out. I had to use a lot of tricks, shims and donor plastic to get the new keyboard to more-or-less stay in place. These chiclet keyboards have to be real tight up against the palm rest or the keys sink below the plastic frame. Otherwise, an external wireless keyboard would put your computer back in service on a desk at least. Might be almost as cheap to buy a new computer. Hi David and everyone, I have Acer Aspire E5-571-304M. I spilled tea on it, and 4 buttons stopped responding. I ordered a replacement keyboard and successfully swapped it. The keyboard works fine. I gently reattached them and did tape on the surface of the new keyboard. I have 2 questions : -I have a E5-571-50hj. Is that the same as the 571G? Therefor, I would like to install this secondary hard drive on the place of the dvd drive bracket. Physical pace, connections available etc, any special bracket available for this? Hi Arjo, I have attempted to add an SSD in the DVD drive slot but failed. I cannot get mine separated from the laptop. My front near the mousepad stays where it is. And of course I do not want to break or damage anything. All the screws on the back are removed. My battery is out and my dvd Bay is empty. How can I get my palm rest open so I can install my ssd? I managed to install my ssd now. Although getting the top plate with the keyboard separated costs a lot of effort and also damage to the top plate. I had to use some force and a plastic tool to get the top plate separated. And by doing this, all those plastic pieces holding the top plate secured to the notebook case, broke. So when I put everything back in its place, I had some damages on my case and the plastic pieces were not functioning anymore as they broke. Thanks Ant for replying to my latest post. The disassembly guide shows the optical drive bracket which came with my notebook. It has no detachable face plate. I now have the caddy which I can install and secure with a screw, but without a face plate that fits and matches my notebook. Buying a different caddy is more expensive than buying an usb 3. Therefore, I think I will buy this usb case and use my hdd as an external hdd drive. Do you happen to know whether it is possible to purchase a replacement MB for this Acer Aspire E5 571PG? I have tried many approaches to resolving the startup issues but none has been successful. I was able to get to the recovery screen once and selected a factory restore but as soon as the system restarted in returns to a blank screen very lightly flashing if you look closely and then the Acer logo with no spinning circle and then back to the lightly flashing, back to the Acer logo etc. Have tried F2, Alt F10, Alt Esc, Power Resest, removing the battery and power source for a long period of time etc… nothing has been successful. I purchased the e5-571-5552 for my granddaughter who is going to college this fall. In Aug of 2014 , Jim posted a location on Newegg for the DVD drive. I checked this out and in the description, it is stated to be a 12. According to David, the drive needs to be 9. Which brings up the issue of the mounting bracket for the DVD drive. Looks like the bare bones DVD drives fit into a bracket that is attached by a screw to the bottom of the laptop. Has anyone found the correct DVD drive and bracket that will work on the E5. Thanks Hi, Do you need a dvd at all? I think I have used it 3 or 5 times now since I purchased my notebook last August. My advice is to do the same. Hey guys i am about to purchase a acer laptop. A similar model to this one. But has the space for it. So can i add a hdd caddy to add a ssd or hdd in that space? Or do i have to buy the one with the optical drive to do so? I have upgraded the RAM on my Acer Aspire E15 E5-521-264R and am now running 10 gB. For those who have upgraded the RAM from the original 4G, how did its performance change?