Contents

3 Illustrated Parts Catalog

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

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

3.3 Miscellaneous Plastics Kit Components . . . . . . . . . 3–10

3.4 Hard Drives and MultiBay Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–12

3.5 Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–13

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 Notebook 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–3 5.3 Preparing the Notebook for Disassembly . . . . . . . . . 5–4 5.4 Notebook Feet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–10 5.5 Mini PCI Communications Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–11 5.6 MultiBay Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–13 5.7 Bluetooth Wireless Communications Board. . . . . . 5–14 5.8 Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–16 5.9 Switch Cover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–20 5.10 Modem Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–22 5.11 Memory Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–24 5.12 Keyboard Plate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–26 5.13 Fan Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–27

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