Contents

Navigating the BIOS setup utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 BIOS setup utility menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 BIOS recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Creating the Crisis Recovery disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Performing a BIOS recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Running the Flash utility: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Clearing a BIOS password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Unlocking the hard drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

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Preventing static electricity discharge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Preparing the work space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Preparing the notebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Removing the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Removing the bay cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Adding or replacing memory modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Replacing the wireless card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Replacing the hard drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Replacing the optical drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Replacing the keyboard cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Replacing the multimedia board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Replacing the keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Replacing the LCD panel assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Replacing the palm rest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Replacing the speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Replacing the touchpad board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Replacing the modem board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Replacing the USB board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Replacing the Bluetooth module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Replacing the system board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Replacing the cooling assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Replacing the processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Replacing the LCD front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Replacing the webcam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Replacing the LCD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Replacing the LCD panel hinge brackets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Replacing the power button board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Replacing the Kensington lock cap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Replacing the microphone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Replacing the antennas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Replacing the LCD assembly lid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

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ENTJ78, ENTJ77, ENTJ76, ENTJ75 specifications

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