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Laptop Disassembly and Processor backup steps. All this operation crave all your absorption and your ability If you are a little anxious about disturbing afar your laptop and replacing the processor maybe this will help. You accept to accumulate in apperception that replacing the processor is a chancy affair to do. You need:
1 baby collapsed Bladed accepted spiral driver
1 actual baby Phillips arch spiral disciplinarian
Some Thermal admixture to put on the new processor.
A adaptable Duron processor or a adaptable Athlon processor of the "25W Balanced" variety. The processor acclimated in this archetype is a adaptable Athlon 4 1.2Ghz processor. The processor is apparently of the 35W variety. However, the 35W processors do not assignment accurately in all laptops.
Step 1 Backup all your important things.
Step 2 booty out the batteries and unplug the laptop from the AC adapter.
Step 3 Chose a chargeless breadth like an abandoned desktop abode the laptop on it again attainable the laptop and angle the affectation all the way back. abode a bi-weekly or article over the top of the affectation so you don't blemish or chafe it.
Step 4 You accept aboriginal to abolish the console that has the speakers and ability button on it. It is anchored by 1 little spiral on the larboard duke ancillary of the panel. abolish the spiral and again accelerate the console to the right. With the console slid to the appropriate you can again anxiously lay it on the display.
Step 5 Now you charge to abolish the keyboard. There is 1 little spiral accepting the keyboard. This spiral is amid aloft the F6 key. abolish the screw. Lift the keyboard by the top, area the Function keys are, and accelerate it out appear the top of the laptop. Lay the keyboard on top of the console that is all attainable on top of the display.
The calefaction Sink/Fan aggregate is now attainable as able-bodied as the harddrive and DVD drive.
Step 6 You charge to anxiously abolish some chestnut arena straps absorbed to the calefaction Sink/Fan admixture . These chestnut straps accept adhering on them and can be anxiously bald aback out of the way. There is one chestnut band at the top of the assembly, beneath the affectation console abutment that is actual difficult to remove. larboard this band in abode until you absolutely began the abatement of the calefaction Sink/Fan combo.
Step 7 There is one baby bracket on the calefaction Sink/Fan admixture by the spiral on the high larboard bend that is anchored to the calefaction Sink/Fan admixture by addition little screw. There is an arrow with the cardinal 3 pointing to this bracket. abolish the spiral for that bracket and circle the bracket out of the way.
Step 8 There are 3 screws accepting the calefaction Sink/Fan admixture to the motherboard. 1 spiral (Labeled with an arrow and the cardinal 1) is at the high right, the additional spiral (Labeled with an arrow and the cardinal 2) is at the lower left, and the third spiral (Labeled with an arrow and the cardinal 3) is at the high left. These spiral are articular on the calefaction bore with the arrow and the numbers 1, 2, 3. alleviate all 3 screws. The screws will not appear out of the calefaction Sink/Fan combo. aloof alleviate them until the calefaction bore is chargeless of the motherboard.
Step 9 This is not necessary, but you can unplug the fan ability leads from the motherboard. The fan ability adapter unplugs, from the motherboard, by appropriation beeline up.
Step 10 You are now attainable to abolish the calefaction Sink/Fan Combo. Remember there is still a chestnut arena band ashore to it at the top beneath the affectation console brackets. anxiously assignment the calefaction Sink/Fan admixture aback and alternating to alleviate it from the processor and to activate unsticking the chestnut strap. You will be Able to blooper the calefaction Sink/Fan admixture against the basal of the laptop and circle it too the larboard to get the chestnut band off of calefaction Sink/Fan combo.
With the calefaction Sink/Fan admixture out of the way you now accept admission to the processor and the appropriate ZIF atrium that the processor is in.
OK booty a abysmal animation now because this is maybe the scariest part.
Step 11 It's time to abolish the processor. You charge a baby collapsed bladed spiral disciplinarian for this part.
The processor is activity to accelerate to the appropriate in the ZIF socket. Put the spiral disciplinarian in the cleft on the larboard ancillary and activate to administer burden to the right. The processor will accelerate about 1/8th of an inch to the right.
Step 12 afore removing the old processor agenda how it is aggressive in the slot. The new processor will charge to be aggressive the aforementioned way. Peel off the artificial awning from the old processor and abode it on the new processor. abolish the old processor and abode the new processor in its place.
Step 13 With the new processor in abode you now charge to abutting the ZIF socket. abode the spiral disciplinarian in the cleft on the appropriate and activate to administer burden to the left. The processor will accelerate about 1/8th of an inch to the left. Now you aloof accept to put aggregate aback and you are done. Do not balloon to put some Thermal Grease on the processor afore you put the calefaction Sink/Fan admixture aback on.
Step 14 anxiously position the calefaction Sink/Fan admixture aback over the top of the processor. bind the 3 calefaction Sink/Fan admixture screws.
Step 15 Plug the cooling fan ability leads aback into the motherboard.
Step 16 abode the little bracket you removed in Step 7 aback assimilate the calefaction Sink/Fan combo
Step 17 abode all of the chestnut arena straps into their actual locations.
Step 18 anxiously analysis all of the calefaction Sink/Fan Screws. anxiously analysis that you acquainted in the cooling fan ability Connectors.
Step 18 abode the keyboard aback into abode and bind bottomward its screw.
Step 19 abode the Speaker console aback into abode and bind bottomward its screw.
Step 20 Start the Laptop and access the bios bureaucracy awning by Pressing F2 as it begins booting you are successful.