IBM ThinkPad A31 CPU Replacement

Remove the 6mm screw

Pull out the hard drive

Peel the sticker and remove the 15mm screw

Remove all 6 of the 16mm screws

use a prying tool and insert it on the cracks on the sides of the keyboard and lift gently until you here a click

repeat this step on all sides of the keyboard until the keyboard is completely detached from the laptop

Lift the keyboard and remove the keyboard ribbon cable from the laptop

Remove the one 21mm screw

Remove the 6mm screw

Take the tool and run it under the black case.

Unscrew the 2 (17mm) screws

Unscrew the 6mm screw

Gently disconnect the white display ribbon cable

Unscrew 4 (6mm) screws

Lift screen straight up

Flip the ThinkPad over so that it is upside down.

Push latch switch to the left.

Gently lift the battery out and away from the ThinkPad

Remove the 6mm screw

LIft the bracket out

Remove one 6mm screw

Remove 3 18mm screws

Take off the bracket on the CPU fan

Lift the CPU fan

Pull out the cable attached to the motherboard

Turn the locking screw to unlock with the flat head screwdriver

LIft the CPU out