STEP 1

Turn off the laptop and remove the battery.

Using a guitar pick or another piece of soft plastic separate the hinge cover from the base.
This will make it easier to remove the keyboard bezel in the next step.

STEP 2

Lift up one side of the keyboard bezel and continue removing the bezel with your fingers.

STEP 3

The keyboard bezel removed.

STEP 4

Remove two screws securing the keyboard.

STEP 5

Carefully lift up the keyboard and place it upside down on the palm rest.

STEP 6

Remove one screw securing the cable cover.
Slide the cover to the right and remove it from the laptop.

STEP 7

Now you can access the keyboard cable connector.
Unlock the connector and pull the keyboard cable from the connector.

STEP 8

On this picture you can see the keyboard cable in the unlocked position.
In order to unlock the connector, move the brown clip about 2-3 millimeters towards the LCD screen.
The brown clip must stat attached to the white base.

After the connector is unlocked, you can release the cable and remove the keyboard.

STEP 9

Turn the laptop upside down.
Remove the hard drive and memory covers.

STEP 10

Lift up the left side of the hard drive assembly and disconnect cable on the right side.
Remove the hard drive assembly.

STEP 11

Remove two screws securing the CD/DVD drive.
Push the drive from the laptop with a screwdriver.
Remove the drive.

STEP 12

Remove all screws from the bottom of the laptop.
Remove both memory modules.

STEP 13

Remove clear protective film glued to the top cover.

STEP 14

Disconnect all cables from the motherboard.

STEP 15

Disconnect two antenna cables from the wireless card.
Remove two screws securing the wireless card.
Remove the wireless card.

STEP 16

Remove four screws securing the top cover assemble.

STEP 17

Start removing the top cover and display assembly from the laptop base.

STEP 18

Top cover and display assembly removed.

STEP 19

Remove four screws securing the motherboard.
Disconnect all cables pointed with yellow arrows.

By the way, you can access the CMOS battery without removing the motherboard.

STEP 20

Lift up the right side of the motherboard.

STEP 21

Remove motherboard from the laptop base.

STEP 22

Here's the laptop base assembly without motherboard.

Now you can access and remove the audio board and USB board.

STEP 23

Remove two screws securing the video board assembly.

STEP 24

Remove video board assembly from the motherboard.

STEP 25

Remove the CD/DVD drive connector.

STEP 26

Disconnect and remove the hard drive cable.

STEP 27

Remove six screws securing the cooling fan assembly.
Disconnect the cooling fan cable from the motherboard.

STEP 28

Remove the cooling fan assembly.

STEP 29

Now you can access and remove the processor.

STEP 30

In this model the power jack harness can be unplugged from the motherboard without de-soldering.