Difficulty

Difficult

Steps

11

Time Required

                          25 - 30 minutes

Sections

7

  • Keyboard
  • 2 steps
  • Optical Drive
  • 1 step
  • Upper Cover
  • 2 steps
  • HDD (Hard Disk Drive)
  • 1 step
  • Wi-Fi Half Mini PCIe card
  • 1 step
  • Mother Board
  • 3 steps
  • CMOS / BIOS Battery
  • 1 step

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Step 1

              Keyboard
  • Turn off the laptop and remove the battery.
  • Remove two screws securing the Keyboard.
  • The Keyboard is held by two locking clips, under the battery. Use the sharp tip of a plastic tool to release the keyboard.

Turn off the laptop and remove the battery.

Remove two screws securing the Keyboard.

The Keyboard is held by two locking clips, under the battery. Use the sharp tip of a plastic tool to release the keyboard.

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Step 2

  • Remove the Keyboard and disconnect the two flex cables:
  • Keyboard flex cable
  • Keyboard Light flex cable
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Remove the Keyboard and disconnect the two flex cables:

Keyboard flex cable

Keyboard Light flex cable

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Step 3

              Optical Drive
  • Remove the screw securing the Optical drive and gently press the drive to show slightly as at the second pic.
  • Slide the drive to the left and remove it.

Remove the screw securing the Optical drive and gently press the drive to show slightly as at the second pic.

Slide the drive to the left and remove it.

Step 4

              Upper  Cover
  • Remove 4x phillips screws and disconnect:
  • Power On button flex cable
  • Touch pad flex cable
  • Remove 18x Phillips screws from the bottom cover.
  • Remove any memory SD Card from the Card reader.
  • Start opening with a plastic opening tool.

Remove 4x phillips screws and disconnect:

Power On button flex cable

Touch pad flex cable

Remove 18x Phillips screws from the bottom cover.

Remove any memory SD Card from the Card reader.

Start opening with a plastic opening tool.

Step 5

  • Carefully separate the upper cover and remove it.

Carefully separate the upper cover and remove it.

Step 6

              HDD (Hard Disk Drive)
  • Gently remove the HDD and disconnect the SATA cable from it.
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Gently remove the HDD and disconnect the SATA cable from it.

Step 7

              Wi-Fi Half Mini PCIe card
  • Remove one Phillips screw, securing th WLan card and disconnect the two coaxial antenna cables.
  • Remove the Wi-Fi card.

Remove one Phillips screw, securing th WLan card and disconnect the two coaxial antenna cables.

Remove the Wi-Fi card.

Step 8

              Mother Board
  • Remove the Memory Cover.
  • Disconnect the Loudspeaker cable connector.

Remove the Memory Cover.

Disconnect the Loudspeaker cable connector.

Step 9

  • Remove two Phillips screw from the Mother board and from the Optical drive SATA adapter.
  • Disconnect the LCD Display flex cable.
  • Disconnect the DC Jack cable.
  • Carefully remove the Optical drive SATA adapter.
  • We will disconnect the battery cable when we pick up the board.

Remove two Phillips screw from the Mother board and from the Optical drive SATA adapter.

Disconnect the LCD Display flex cable.

Disconnect the DC Jack cable.

Carefully remove the Optical drive SATA adapter.

We will disconnect the battery cable when we pick up the board.

Step 10

  • Carefully pick up the Mother board and disconnect the Battery cable.

Carefully pick up the Mother board and disconnect the Battery cable.

Step 11

              CMOS / BIOS Battery
  • Use sharp plastic tool and remove the CMOS Battery.
  • CR2032 - button cell lithium battery rated at 3.0 volts.
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Use sharp plastic tool and remove the CMOS Battery.

CR2032 - button cell lithium battery rated at 3.0 volts.

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chemanemelton - Jun 10, 2016

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I need assistance with the G2201 Hardware Gap, Im attempting to remove a HHD password for a customers machine on this same model

Mohammad Osman - Apr 14, 2020

I have same problem with same mother board please help me

amantaj - Aug 30, 2016

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Hi. Thanks a lot. I manage to remove the CMOS battery, and I kept the laptop pc idle without the battery for nearly 7hrs. But still, when connected, I am asked for password/unlock key. Could you please help me how to discharge the CMOS.

Omit Z - Jul 14, 2019

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Hi.

Thanks so much.

I manage to remove the CMOS battery, and I kept the laptop pc idle without the battery for nearly 3hrs.

But still, when connected, I am asked for password/unlock key. Could you please help me how to discharge the CMOS.

Please help me.