Bottom

Long screw
Normal screw
- Remove all the
screws
- Open the lid under
the 2 normal screw
to access to the HDD

HDD Tray and body screws

Normal screw
HDD tray screw

- Remove all the

screws
- Pull the HDD tray
from left to right to
remove it

RAM Slots

- Remove the screw

- Open the lid under to
access to the RAM

CD TRAY
Normal screw
- Remove RAM

- Remove the screw

- Push the CD tray
from right to left to
remove it

CD reader close body screw

- Remove Body Screw

Body screw close to the battery

- Remove Body Screw

Remove the keyboard

- Put a flat screwdriver in the
hole situated at the top of the
keyboard to losen it
- There is a cable holding the
keyboard to the motherboard.
- Pull the black clip to free the
cable and remove the keyboard
(see the next photo to see the
black clip)

Upper body screw

Normal screw
Keyboard Clip
Touchpad Clip
- Remove all screws
- Pull up the touchpad clip to
release the cable to remove
the touchpad

Upper body removal

- Insert a plastic card among

the yellow line and slide it
all around the laptop to
unclip all the upper body

Motherboard
Normal screw
Short screw
- Remove all the screws

Motherboard
- Disconnect cable
-

Speakers
Display
Power supply
Bluetooth

Motherboard
- Pull gently the
motherboard in order to
disconnect it to other PCB
still screwed to the body

Motherboard
- Pull gently the
motherboard in order to
disconnect it to other PCB
still screwed to the body

Heatsink removal
Heatsink screw

- Remove all screws

- Disconnect fan cable

Cleaning

- Clean old thermal paste on

heatsink

Cleaning
- Remove stickers on GPU and
CPU
- Clean dies of CPU and GPU

New thermal paste

- Put the new thermal paste on
dies (a small amount)
- Put the heatsink back and
reassemble everything!
- (my sticker is still dirty
because old thermal paste
leaked everywhere )