Disassembly

-Remove the power supply and battery.

-Remove the hinge plate cover just above the keyboard using a philips head screwdriver. This reveals the motherboard.

-Take the screws around the keyboard out to remove keyboard and detatch any cables under the keyboard.

-Begin disassembling the motherboard. Use the Phillips head screwdriver to unscrew the large screw located in the center of the motherboard. This screw is holding two large metal plates covering the motherboard together.

-Use the Phillips head screwdriver to unscrew the cooling fan panel; you will need to unscrew three screws located around the fan, then lift the cooling fan out of its holder. 

-The motherboard and cooling fan now can be dettatched and replaced or cleaned.

-Close the laptop. Place a clean, thin dishcloth over the motherboard and gently close the screen. Turn the entire laptop over so that the base is now facing up and the battery is facing away from you.

-The hard drive is located in the bottom right hand corner; the memory unit is located in the center of the laptop. Both of these are unscrewed by removing the small screws at the bottom of each unit. Remove the covers on each.

-The Wi-Fi unit is located at the top left of the laptop; remove the two screws from this unit and lift the Wi-Fi cover off the laptop. 

-Gently pull the RAM module out of the slot by disengaging the spread latches on either side of the memory unit.

-Remove the three screws on the right hand side of the hard drive unit and lift the hard drive out.

-Remove the screw securing the CD/DVD drive into the laptop base, then pop the drive open with a paper clip. Carefully pull the CD/DVD drive out of the computer and set it aside.

-Then take out the screws surrounding the screen, usually found in the corners of the screen

-After unscrewing with the phillips head, use an even smaller flat head screwdriver preferably a jewlers screwdriver to unhinge the snaps attatching the moniter cover to the rest of the screen, after carefully prying the snaps out all the way around the screen cover whilst watching out for glue tape and it should leave the led screen exposed.

(Insert picture of exposed screen)

-Take out the back screws in the laptop with a Philips head

-Remove keyboard all the way around

-your laptop screen is separated with the bottom of the laptop revealing the motherboard

Assembly

-With the laptop as it was from the dissasembly, resecure the cd drive back on to the the base by screwing it back in its place.

-Then place the Ram module back in its slot and screw that back into the laptop once reatatching the latches.

-Place the wifi unit back into the laptop and use the two screws to resecure the cover for the wifi unit.

-Rescrew the covers for the harddrive and the memory unit to secure all parts removed by dissasembly.

open up the laptop to show where the motherboard and cooling fan is suppose to be.

Slot those into there respective places and screw the cooling fan in with its three screws.

Then place in the motherboard followed by the cover on top of it, the motherboard itself has one bigger screw in the middle of it which must be secured.Followed by the two metal plates which are screwed in over the motherboard to keep it in place.

-Place the laptop screen flat with the bottom cover covering the motherboard, make sure the wires are pushed back inside the top and bottom cover, in there respective places.

-With the Philips head again, screw back in the bottom screws all the way around

-Proceed to turn in the screws on the back of the cover.

The keyboard/ monitor has to be clicked in and the covers are together again and the computer assembled.

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