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Instructions
Place a soft cloth on a table. Put the PSP face down on the soft cloth with the battery lid on the left side. Remove the battery lid with your fingers. Pull the battery out of the battery compartment with your fingers.
Remove the screws from the right center edge of the PSP with the Phillips jeweler's screwdriver. Remove the screw from the bottom middle edge of the PSP with the Phillips jeweler's screwdriver.
Remove the screws from inside of the battery compartment with the Phillips jeweler's screwdriver.
Scratch off the sticker inside of the battery compartment with the tip of the Phillips jeweler's screwdriver. Remove the screw now revealed from under the sticker with the Phillips jeweler's screwdriver.
Turn the PSP over so that the battery compartment is on the left bottom. Hold the right, lower edge of the PSP with your right hand. Pull the faceplate off the PSP from the upper, left edge with your left hand.
Insert the tip of the Phillips jeweler's screwdriver below the horizontal bracket at the bottom edge of the PSP.
Lift up the tip of the Phillips jeweler's screwdriver to pull the left side of the horizontal bracket out of the PSP. Repeat this process on the right side of the horizontal bracket.
Lift the horizontal bracket off the PSP. Lay the horizontal bracket off to the side on the PSP without disconnecting the cable from the motherboard.
Insert the tip of the Phillips jeweler's screwdriver beneath the left side of the LCD screen that is at the center of the PSP.
Lift up on the tip of the Phillips jeweler's screwdriver to raise the left side of the LCD screen off the PSP. Repeat this process on the right side of the PSP.
Lift the LCD screen off the PSP. Pull the cable attached to the LCD screen out of the motherboard with the tweezers.
Pull the cable attached to the LCD screen off the motherboard with the tweezers. Place the LCD screen on the soft cloth.
Moisten a cotton swab in distilled alcohol. Wipe the moistened end of the cotton swab against the connector at the end of the cable attached to the LCD screen. Wipe off the connector with an edge of the lint-free cloth.
Moisten another cotton swab in distilled alcohol. Wipe the moistened end of the cotton swab against the connection on the motherboard that the cable attached to the LCD screen was inside of. Wipe off the connection with a dry edge of the lint-free cloth. Blow off the connection with compressed air.
Insert the connector at the end of the cable attached to the LCD screen into the connection on the motherboard with your fingers.
Gently push down on the connector with your fingers to seat it firmly into the connection on the motherboard.
Place the LCD screen back onto the PSP in its original position. Gently push down on both sides of the LCD screen with your fingers to seat it firmly onto the PSP.
Put the horizontal bracket back into position in the front edge of the PSP.
Put the faceplate back onto the PSP. Turn the PSP over. Reattach the screws. Put the battery back into the battery compartment. Put the battery lid back onto the back of the PSP.