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==Steps== | ==Steps== | ||
| − | '' | + | ''These steps have not been tested in this order. --[[User:Woozle|Woozle]] 00:52, 16 October 2010 (UTC)'' |
| − | # Remove | + | # Turn unit over so you are looking at the underside. |
| − | # | + | # Remove all screws from underside of case. Two of them are inside the battery compartment, so you need to open that and remove the battery too. |
| + | #* Three of them hold the indicator panel in place -- you can see the sockets in the detached panel [[:File:DSCF3109-10 combined.jpg|here]]. | ||
| + | #* Several more hold the Z-shaped lid which covers the hard drive, WLAN card, and RAM areas. Some of these screws will stay nicely with the lid, while others are loose. | ||
| + | # Remove black-and-white wire pair from WLAN card. | ||
| + | # Remove one screw from the WLAN card (this screw is smaller/shorter than the others). | ||
| + | # Turn the unit back over so you are looking at the top. | ||
# Remove the indicator panel -- if it won't pop out with finger pressure, a thin slotted screwdriver will help get it started. | # Remove the indicator panel -- if it won't pop out with finger pressure, a thin slotted screwdriver will help get it started. | ||
| + | # Keyboard pops out -- pull it towards the display. Be careful with the ribbon cable, which you may or may not be able to reseat properly. | ||
| + | # Remove all display cables. | ||
| + | # Remove 2 screws from where the display hinges attach to the base. | ||
| + | # Remove the display now and set it aside. | ||
| + | # There may be one more screw inside the keyboard pan, at the top right, barely visible in [[:File:DSCF3112.JPG|this photo]] just above and to the left of the hole where black-and-white wire pair emerges (near top right of keyboard pan). | ||
| + | # The keyboard pan should be removable at this point. What seems to work is starting with the flimsy grey part behind where the display attaches, and then working around. | ||
| + | # Unless I've forgotten something, the system board should also be detachable once the keyboard pan has been removed. | ||
Revision as of 15:00, 21 October 2010
Steps
These steps have not been tested in this order. --Woozle 00:52, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
- Turn unit over so you are looking at the underside.
- Remove all screws from underside of case. Two of them are inside the battery compartment, so you need to open that and remove the battery too.
- Three of them hold the indicator panel in place -- you can see the sockets in the detached panel here.
- Several more hold the Z-shaped lid which covers the hard drive, WLAN card, and RAM areas. Some of these screws will stay nicely with the lid, while others are loose.
- Remove black-and-white wire pair from WLAN card.
- Remove one screw from the WLAN card (this screw is smaller/shorter than the others).
- Turn the unit back over so you are looking at the top.
- Remove the indicator panel -- if it won't pop out with finger pressure, a thin slotted screwdriver will help get it started.
- Keyboard pops out -- pull it towards the display. Be careful with the ribbon cable, which you may or may not be able to reseat properly.
- Remove all display cables.
- Remove 2 screws from where the display hinges attach to the base.
- Remove the display now and set it aside.
- There may be one more screw inside the keyboard pan, at the top right, barely visible in this photo just above and to the left of the hole where black-and-white wire pair emerges (near top right of keyboard pan).
- The keyboard pan should be removable at this point. What seems to work is starting with the flimsy grey part behind where the display attaches, and then working around.
- Unless I've forgotten something, the system board should also be detachable once the keyboard pan has been removed.
