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Removal and replacement procedures preliminary requirements ....................................

41

 

Tools required .......................................................................................................................

41

 

Service considerations ............................................................................................................

41

 

Plastic parts ............................................................................................................

41

 

Cables and and pointing stick connectors ..................................................................

41

 

Drive handling ........................................................................................................

42

 

Grounding guidelines .............................................................................................................

42

 

Electrostatic discharge damage .................................................................................

42

 

Packaging and transporting guidelines .......................................................

43

 

Workstation guidelines .............................................................................

44

 

Equipment guidelines ................................................................................

44

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Removal and replacement procedures for Customer Self-Repair parts .............................

46

 

Component replacement procedures ........................................................................................

46

 

Battery ...................................................................................................................

46

 

SIM .......................................................................................................................

47

 

Service door ...........................................................................................................

48

 

Hard drives, primary and secondary .........................................................................

49

 

Solid-state drive (SSD) – mSATA ................................................................................

51

 

WLAN module ........................................................................................................

52

 

WWAN module .....................................................................................................

54

 

RTC battery ............................................................................................................

55

 

Optical drive ..........................................................................................................

57

 

Upgrade bay hard drive ..........................................................................................

59

 

Expansion memory module .......................................................................................

62

 

Keyboard ...............................................................................................................

63

 

Primary memory module ..........................................................................................

65

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Removal and replacement procedures for Authorized Service Provider parts ..................

67

 

Component replacement procedures ........................................................................................

67

 

Display bezel .........................................................................................................

67

 

Webcam module ....................................................................................................

69

 

Display panel .........................................................................................................

70

 

Top cover ...............................................................................................................

72

 

Speaker assembly ...................................................................................................

75

 

Multifunction board .................................................................................................

77

 

Touchpad ...............................................................................................................

79

 

Fingerprint reader ...................................................................................................

80

 

Power button board .................................................................................................

82

 

Display assembly ....................................................................................................

84

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