Sunday, April 8, 2018

Lenovo ThinkPad T540p Disassembly

In this guide, I’ll explain how to disassemble Lenovo ThinkPad T540p to remove and replace the SSD, keyboard, palm rest, wireless card, RAM, heat sink and cooling fan, speaker and motherboard.
 Unlock and remove the battery
Remove one screw securing wireless card cover and remove the cover. You can access the wireless card and a spare NGFF slot.
Disconnect two antennas and remove one screw, you can remove the wireless card.
The wireless card
Remove two screws securing the service cover and remove the service cover.
The Lenovo ThinkPad T540p has two memory slots, a mini PCI-E slot (already ins talled wireless card) and a NGFF SSD slot.
Samsung 8GB PC3L-12800S RAM
Remove one screw securing the SSD and remove it.
The Lenovo ThinkPad T540p features a Samsung 256G 2.5″ SSD.
Remove the screws that hold the optical drive.
Pull out the optical drive.
The laptop features a Panasonic UJ-862 9.5mm SATA optical drive.
 ThinkPad T54 0p keyboard design is very specially, filling the border between their keycaps can slide up and down. Beneath his keyboard has three grooves, through their border between keycaps can be pushed up, after the six screws that secure the keyboard will be revealed, they can be removed individually loosen the keyboard.
Remove the keyboard and palm rest.
The keyboard has been removed.

The back of the keyboard
Under the palm rest, you can get access to the heat sink and cooling fan.
 Loosen seven screws securing the heat sink and disconnect the cooling fan cable from the motherboard, you can remove the heat sink and cooling fan.
The heat sink and cooling fan
Motherboard
 Graphics card
Intel processor





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