Contents

3 Illustrated Parts Catalog

3.1 Serial Number Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–1

3.2 Notebook System Major Components . . . . . . . . . . . 3–2

3.3 Miscellaneous Plastics Kit Components . . . . . . . . 3–16

3.4 Mass Storage Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–18

3.5 Miscellaneous. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–22

4 Removal and Replacement Preliminaries

4.1 Tools Required. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–1 4.2 Service Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–2 Plastic Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–2 Cables and Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–2

4.3 Preventing Damage to Removable Drives . . . . . . . . 4–3 4.4 Preventing Electrostatic Damage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–4 4.5 Packaging and Transporting Precautions . . . . . . . . . 4–4 4.6 Workstation Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–5 4.7 Grounding Equipment and Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–6

5 Removal and Replacement Procedures

5.1 Serial Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–2 5.2 Disassembly Sequence Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–2 5.3 Preparing the Notebook for Disassembly . . . . . . . . 5–4 5.4 Notebook Feet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–11 5.5 Mini PCI Communications Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–12 5.6 Disk Cell RTC Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–15 5.7 Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–17 5.8 Memory Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–22 5.9 TouchPad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–25

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