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The cooling fan of any laptop or home computer ensures that the internal parts of the device do not overheat. For this reason it is important to make sure that your cooling fan is in working order and clean of dust. As with all disassembly guides, don’t forget to create a back up of your device’s hard drive.
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Slide the lock mechanism on the left side of the laptop to the right.
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While holding the right slide mechanism, remove the battery from the laptop.
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Flip the laptop over to reveal screw locations.
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Use a metal spudger to remove the two rear rubber feet. There are screws hidden underneath them.
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Remove the twelve 5mm Phillips #1 screws on the back of the laptop.
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Remove the DVD drive from the laptop.
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Remove the two 3 mm Phillips #1 screws underneath the DVD drive.
These two steps are in the reversed order! You need to remove the DVD drive before getting access to the screws.
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Flip the laptop and open.
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Detach the keyboard by prying it free from the laptop using a spudger.
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Disconnect the keyboard ribbon cable.
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Disconnect the two narrow ribbon cables to the left of the keyboard connection.
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Remove five 4 mm Phillips #1 screws from the metal tray for the keyboard.
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Pry open the plastic casing using a spudger.
It was hard to get the edges up of the entire cover because it didn't want to come all the way loose.... So I looked at a video for this and saw that tech was prying up the keyboard FIRST -- BEFORE GOING AROUND THE EDGES AND REMOVING THE TOP COVER.
ALSO... The black cover top has snaps all the way around the INSIDE hole where the keyboard was removed from. You'll have to unsnap it all along those inside edges too, to get that top cover off. Don't pull the cover all the way off because there's a thin white ribbon cable attaching the touch pad to the main area. I just placed it up higher leaning against the screen, so the hard drive and the RAM areas would be accessible since I'm replacing the RAM today.
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Remove two 5 mm Phillips #1 screws located at the base of the hard drive.
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Pull the hard drive upwards and away from the laptop.
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The hard drive should disconnect from its port on the motherboard as shown in the second image.
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Flip the hard drive over.
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Remove the two 4 mm Phillips #1 screws from the base of the hard drive.
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Remove the mounting brace (silver bracket) from the hard drive.
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Remove the remaining two 5 mm Philips #1 screws from the motherboard.
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Remove the tape from the display connector attached to the motherboard.
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Disconnect the display connector from the motherboard.
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Remove one 4 mm Phillips #1 screw from the wireless chip.
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Remove the wireless chip from the motherboard.
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Remove two 5 mm Phillips #1 screws from the USB component connected to the motherboard.
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Lift the USB component until the band connecting it to the motherboard lifts off of the laptop.
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Slowly lift the motherboard out of the computer.
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Disconnect the power connector from the motherboard as shown in the image.
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Using a Phillips #1 screwdriver, remove the three 5mm screws that secure the cooling fan assembly to the motherboard.
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Separate the cooling fan assembly from the motherboard and proceed to use the canned air to clean the inner pieces of the fan.
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
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It appears as though the jfan1 connection on the motherboard doesn’t have a plastic connector. I’ve bought a fan for this laptop to solve some overheating issues, but I can’t find anywhere to plug it in (I’m assuming that on similar models, the jfan1 connection would be the one to use). Is there any way that I can somehow plug my fan into this motherboard?
