Removing the
system board
Steps
- Follow the procedure in Before Working Inside
Your Computer.
- Remove the:
- stand
- back cover
- cable cover
- speaker cover
- VESA mount bracket
- system-board shield
- memory
- optical drive
- hard drive
- heatsink
- power-supply unit
- converter board
- processor fan
- Perform the following steps as shown in the
illustration:
- Disconnect the optical-drive cable and hard-drive
cable from the connectors on the system board [1].
- Disconnect the touch pad cable from the
connector on the system board [2].
- Unthread the cable from the retention clips
of the computer [3].
- Perform the following steps as shown in the
illustration:
- Remove the screws that secure the optical-drive
cable and hard-drive cable to the system [1].
- Disconnect the optical-drive cable and hard-drive
cable [2].
- Disconnect all the cables that are connected
to the system board.
- Perform the following steps as shown in the
illustration:
- Press the latches on either side of the
connector and pull the LVDS cable to disconnect it from the system
board [1,2].
- Lift the latch and disconnect the cable
from the connector [3,4].
- Perform the following steps as shown in the
illustration.
- Remove the screws that secure the system
board to the chassis [1].
- Slide the system board and lift it away
from the chassis [2].
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