Bottom

Long screw
Normal screw

- Remove all the

screws

- Open the lid under

the 2 normal screw
to access to the HDD
 HDD Tray and body screws
Normal screw
HDD tray screw

- Remove all the

screws

- Pull the HDD tray

from left to right to
remove it
 RAM Slots

- Remove the screw

- Open the lid under to

access to the RAM
 CD TRAY
Normal screw

- Remove RAM

- Remove the screw

- Push the CD tray

from right to left to
remove it
CD reader close body screw
- Remove Body Screw
 Body screw close to the battery
- Remove Body Screw
 Remove the keyboard
- Put a flat screwdriver in the
hole situated at the top of the
keyboard to losen it

- There is a cable holding the

keyboard to the motherboard.

- Pull the black clip to free the

cable and remove the keyboard
(see the next photo to see the
black clip)
 Upper body screw
Normal screw
Keyboard Clip
Touchpad Clip

- Remove all screws

- Pull up the touchpad clip to

release the cable to remove
the touchpad
 Upper body removal

- Insert a plastic card among

the yellow line and slide it
all around the laptop to
unclip all the upper body
 Motherboard
Normal screw
Short screw

- Remove all the screws

 Motherboard

- Disconnect cable

- Speakers
- Display
- Power supply
- Bluetooth
 Motherboard

- Pull gently the

motherboard in order to
disconnect it to other PCB
still screwed to the body
 Motherboard

- Pull gently the

motherboard in order to
disconnect it to other PCB
still screwed to the body
 Heatsink removal
Heatsink screw

- Remove all screws

- Disconnect fan cable

 Cleaning

- Clean old thermal paste on

heatsink
 Cleaning

- Remove stickers on GPU and

CPU

- Clean dies of CPU and GPU

 New thermal paste

- Put the new thermal paste on

dies (a small amount)

- Put the heatsink back and

reassemble everything!

- (my sticker is still dirty

because old thermal paste
leaked everywhere )