Dec 29 2010, 04:00 PM
Before doing anything, get a small head Philips screwdriver, a small nailclipper, and short plastic ruler. Make sure you have ample space to do your work and make sure you know which screw goes where because not all are the same size. So better put the screw on its segment and position.
First turn off your laptop (duh), disconnect power cord if it runs on adapter, close the lid, turn your laptop upside down and remove batteries if you put the batteries on. Unscrew both the access panels, RAM and HDD pictured below. Two screw on each.
Next look on optical disk drive (ODD) side, there are three screw pictured below, unscrew it and you could slide the optical drive out.
Underneath the ODD there is three small screw, pictured below. Unscrew it as well.
Now we focus on harddrive section, there is 4 screw (colored red) holding the HDD bracket pictured below. Unscrew it and you could slide the drive out to the right and remove it. There is also two case screw (colored orange), unscrew that as well
You should have 24 screw; 2x RAM cover, 2x HDD cover, 4x HDD bracket, 3x ODD bracket, and 13x case screw.
Now turn laptop upright again, open the lid and now we going to remove the keyboard. Get ready your plastic ruler. You could use anything but I strongly suggest you follow mine because if you use metal the plastic lip holding the keyboadr could break because its VERY VERY delicate and broke off easily. There is 4 tabs holding the keyboard, on top of ESC key, F5 key, between F10 and F11 and Delete key.
Gently push the ruler in, and push the tab inside to the case(the OPPOSITE of what pictured below) and slowly lift the keyboard up exactly like pictured below. If it won't go DON'T FORCE IT! Do again to remove the tab holding the keyboard. It should come out easily. My recommendation: Do it from left to right and put something to hold it up when you lift the tab so it won't lock back into place when you move to the next tab
When all the tabs are out, gently lift the keyboard 45 degree but be careful because there is keyboard ribbon underneath. There should be a yellow sticker covering the keyboard ribbon tab. Remove it and push out the tab pictured below. Do one side and then do the other. Pull the ribbon out gently via the blue plastic tab on the ribbon and your keyboard is free
Before getting excited removing the screw, do the same on touchpad ribbon underneath.
Now you could remove the screw pictured below. Make sure you don't mix the screw together because this is different and there is two longer screw (colored orange) as well. The yellow circle is where the chipset is
Done that and now lets focus on laptop hinge. There is a small hole on both side of the hinge, this is where you start to remove the front case. Put the end of the nail clipper (NOT the sharp part, look at blunt side) pictured below. Push it and lift it up. When it start to lift use your nail from opposite side (circled orange) to remove the case. My tip: Remove one side first and move to the other, preferably right. Gently but firmly remove it. It should make scary sound but don't worry because that is just the clip holding the upper part to the lower part
Unfortunately I had something else to do so on the laptop so I don't do full disassembly. Maybe next time. To assemble, do everything in reverse
This post has been edited by Najmods: Dec 29 2010, 09:49 PM
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