Palm-rest and keyboard assembly
Removing the palm-rest and keyboard assembly
Prerequisites
1. Follow the procedure in Before working inside your computer.
2. Remove the base cover.
3. Remove the battery.
4. Remove the rear cover.
5. Remove the touchpad.
6. Remove the keyboard-controller board
7. Remove the display assembly.
8. Remove the solid-state drive.
9. Remove the wireless card.
10. Remove the memory modules.
11. Remove the speakers.
12. Remove the power adapter port.
13. Remove the system board.
NOTE: The system board can be removed as an assembly with the fan and heat-sink assembly, ethernet and audio
board, and USB board attached.
14. Remove the ethernet and audio board.
15. Remove the USB board.
16. Remove the fan and heat-sink assembly.
17. Remove the power button.
About this task
After performing the steps in the pre-requisites, we are left with the palm-rest and keyboard assembly.
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Removing and installing Field Replaceable Units (FRUs)