Broken E500 - help me dismantle it!

Hi folks,

My best friend's laptop broke down, and I said I'll have a look at it, as a last resort.

Here's what happened: one morning, the machine just refused to turn on.
It was working perfectly fine the day before, and nothing (and nobody) touched it during the night.
I was at the house, so I can attest to that.

My friend sent it to an authorized LG service centre (in Whitby, Ontario), and was told that the motherboard is busted.
The repair centre quoted a nice lump sum of CAD 450 for replacement costs, including labour).
Considering that a brand-new Acer CULV dual-core ultraportable was only CAD 330 (taxes included), I advised my friend to get a new machine instead.

And now, I've taken the busted E500, to make a last attempt to repair it.
I'm banking on the (admittedly small) chance that the repair centre was wrong in assessing the motherboard damage...
maybe it was just a busted power switch contact.

If it turns out that I'm wrong, and the motherboard's indeed dead, I'll just cannibalize the parts that are still good.
My friend will probably want the HDD (in a cheap external SATA enclosure), and I can use the RAM for another machine, but the rest can go (so if anyone needs spare parts, let me know...)

But my first - and most important - question is this: Does anyone know how to safely dismantle the machine? I can figure out by myself, but I don't want to damage anything in the process.


So...
anyone?

PS: At first sight, I have to say that the inside of the laptop seems to be well put together.
It seems that they put a lot of care in it.
Even the HDD well has a foam lining, which is something other manufacturers don't bother with.