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Disassembling ASUS K501U

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    • Remove all shown screws from the bottom cover. These screws have different length. I color-coded screws with similar length in red, yellow and green. Make sure to install them correctly when you assemble the laptop back together.

    • Remove these top 4 screws.New line.

    • Remove these 2 side screws.

    • Remove these 4 bottom screws.

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    • Separate the bottom cover from the palmrest assembly and remove it.

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    • Remove four screws securing the battery.

    • The battery is connected to the motherboard via a cable.

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    • In order to unlock the battery connector you’ll have to slide the metal bracket to the shown direction.

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    • Carefully lift up the battery cable from the connector.

    • Do not use metal objects to lift up the cable. You can short metal pins inside. It is reccomended that you use a plastic spudger.

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    • You can find a new replacement battery using the part number printed on the original battery. I would recommend using a genuine Asus battery, not a third-party replacement. Replacement battery model B31N1429.

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    • Asus K501U motherboard has only one memory slot. Some memory is built into the motherboard. You can access the available slot if you remove the metal cover. You can install up to 8GB DDR3-12800 SODIMM RAM module into this slot.

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    • Remove four screws from the hard drive caddy and remove the caddy. This laptop came with a m.2 solid state drive so there is no regular 2.5″ hard drive installed.

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    • Remove one screw securing the solid state drive and pull the drive out. This is m.2 SATA III solid state drive (not NVMe).

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    • Remove three screws securing the right fan.

    • Disconnect fan cable from the motherboard.

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    • Remove the right fan.

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    • Remove three screws securing the left fan.

    • Disconnect fan cable from the motherboard.

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    • Remove the left fan.

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    • The USB audio board is mounted under the right hinge.

    • Remove three screws from the right hinge. Remove one screw from the board.

    • Disconnect the USB audio board cable (color-coded in green).

    • Disconnect the right speaker cable (color-coded in yellow).

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    • Unlock the connector first by lifting up the locking tab.

    • After that pull the cable out.

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    • Lift up the right hinge and remove the USB audio board.

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    • Carefully disconnect wireless antenna cables from the wireless card.

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    • Remove one screw securing the wireless card and pull it out.

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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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