Difficulty

Very difficult

Steps

14

Time Required

                          30 - 35 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
  • Cooling System and CPU Thermal Paste Replacement
  • 4 steps

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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

              Cooling System and CPU Thermal Paste Replacement               
  • Disconnect the Fan cable.
  • Unscrew the screws that hold the Cooling system to the Mother board.
  • Carefully lift the Cooling system right up.

Disconnect the Fan cable.

Unscrew the screws that hold the Cooling system to the Mother board.

Carefully lift the Cooling system right up.

Step 12

  • Use a lint-free cloth to clean the old thermal compound.
  • If the thermal compound is solidified, you can use a flat end of any plastic tool to scrape it off.
  • Use again cloth with isopropyl alcohol to clean the Thermal surface.
  • Remove three Philips screws held the Fan shield.

Use a lint-free cloth to clean the old thermal compound.

If the thermal compound is solidified, you can use a flat end of any plastic tool to scrape it off.

Use again cloth with isopropyl alcohol to clean the Thermal surface.

Remove three Philips screws held the Fan shield.

Step 13

  • Unstick the black tape that hold the Fan to the cooler.
  • Unlock the clip and open the Fan case.
  • Use a soft brush and clean the Fan and the Cooler
  • Close the Fan system.

Unstick the black tape that hold the Fan to the cooler.

Unlock the clip and open the Fan case.

Use a soft brush and clean the Fan and the Cooler

Close the Fan system.

Step 14

  • Use the same technic to clean the surface of the processor from the old thermal compound
  • Be carefully,if you don’t want to break the CPU.
  • Dispense a small amount of thermal compound and gently smear it over the entire processor surface.
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  • Did you do it successful?

Use the same technic to clean the surface of the processor from the old thermal compound

Be carefully,if you don’t want to break the CPU.

Dispense a small amount of thermal compound and gently smear it over the entire processor surface.

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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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lukasrohrer - May 13, 2016

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Hello!

Is ist possible to installa SSD storage to the V5-571G without removing the SATA?

Thanks for your reply