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Alienware m16 R1 AMD Service Manual

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Removing the system board

Prerequisites

  1. Follow the procedure in Before working inside your computer.
  2. Remove the base cover.
  3. Remove the memory.
  4. Remove the 2230 solid-state drive in slot three.
  5. Remove the 2280 solid state drive or 2230 solid-state drive in slot one and two, whichever applicable.
  6. Remove the wireless card
  7. Remove the small fan.
  8. Remove the rear-I/O cover.
  9. Remove the battery.

About this task

The following image indicates the connectors on your system board.

Image: Removing the system board1
  1. Display cable
  2. Alien head LED-cable
  3. Power-adapter cable
  4. Right-fan cable
  5. M.2 card slot for solid-state drive 1
  6. M.2 card slot for solid-state drive 2
  7. Wireless-card slot
  8. Battery cable connector
  9. Touchpad cable
  10. Keyboard controller and keyboard backlight
  11. Left-fan cable 1
  12. M.2 card slot for solid-state drive 3
  13. Left-fan cable 2
  14. Rear I/O board cable
  15. Camera cable
NOTE:Computers shipped with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080/4090, and AMD RX 7600M XT graphics card have one M.2 2230 and two M.2 2280 solid-state drive slots, whereas computers shipped with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060/4070 graphics card have two M.2 2280 solid-state drive slots.

The following image(s) indicate the location of the system board and provides a visual representation of the removal procedure.

Image: Removing the system board2

Steps

  1. Peel the tape that secures the rear I/O board cable to the system board.
  2. Disconnect the rear I/O board cable from the system board.
  3. Peel the tape that secures the camera cable to the system board.
  4. Open the latch and disconnect the camera cable from the system board.
  5. Open the latch and disconnect the touchpad cable from the system board.
    disconnect the touchpad cable from the system board
  6. Remove the speaker cable from the system board.
  7. Remove the two screws (M2x2.5) that secure the Type-C bracket to the system board.
  8. Remove the eighteen screws (M2x4) and one screw (M2x6) that secures the system board to the palm-rest and keyboard assembly.
    NOTE:Remove the two screws (M3x7.65, #2) from the M.2 2230 SSD slots on the system board. This step is applicable only for the computers shipped with M.2 2230 solid-state drives.
  9. After performing all the above steps, you are left with the system board.
  10. Lift and turn the system board over.
  11. Remove the audio board.
  12. Remove the fan and heat-sink assembly.
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