Asus A550JKAsus Laptop
Asus A550JK Disassembly and RAM, HDD Upgrade Options
In this guide, I’ll explain how to disassemble the Asus A550JK to remove and replace the hard drive, DVD drive, keyboard, palm rest, wireless card, bottom case, USB board, heat sink, cooling fan, and motherboard.
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Asus A550JK Specification
CPU: Intel Core i7-4710H
Memory: 4GB (4GB × 1)
Memory type: DDR3L (low voltage version) 1600MHz
Maximum Memory: 12GB
Hard drive: 1TB 5400RPM
Screen: 16: 9, 15.6-inch LED screen, not touchscreen
Resolution: 1920×1080
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M
Graphics Memory: 2GB DDR3
Motherboard Chipset: Intel HM86
Operating System: Windows 8.1
Unlock and remove the battery.
Asus A550JK using a 15v, 2950mah Li-ion battery, Asus P/N: A41-X550A.
Remove two screws securing the service cover. Pry up and remove the cover.
You can see four built-in SK Hynix memory chips and a spare memory slot.
SD card reader
Remove three screws securing the hard drive module. Lift the black tape and slide to the left.
The laptop comes with a 500GB 5400RPM HGST hard drive.
Remove all screws from the bottom case.
Turn over the laptop. Pry up the palm rest.
Disconnect the keyboard cable and touchpad cable. You can remove the palm rest.
Now, you can remove and replace the keyboard.
Under the palm rest, you can access the motherboard, DVD drive, speakers, wireless card, USB board, and cooling fan.
Remove the screw securing the DVD drive.
Pull out the DVD drive.
Disconnect two antennas.
Remove the screw securing the wireless card.
Remove the card.
Wireless card
The USB board is connected to the motherboard via a cable.
Disconnect this cable.
Remove five screws securing the motherboard.
Disconnect the LCD cable.
Carefully lift the motherboard.
Disconnect all cables connected to the motherboard.
The motherboard has been removed.
Built-in SK Hynix memory chips
Four Samsung graphics memory chips
Four built-in SK Hynix memory chips
South Bridge is covered by the heat sink.
The heat sink has been removed.
Remove seven screws securing the heat sink. Disconnect the cooling fan cable from the motherboard.
The heat sink and cooling fan have been removed.
Right speaker and LCD hinge
Left speaker
For more guides, check out the Asus A550JK device page.
Hi! This is a nice tutorial and really helpful for an R510JK as well since it’s the same layout.
I’ve replaced the optical drive with an SSD caddy. Unfortunately I couldn’t remove the face plate/bezel of the UJ8E2 in order to attach it to the caddy. Have you disassembled the face plate of the optical drive as well? Could you post some advice/pics on how to get it done?
Thanks in advance.
Awesome manuals, David. Thank you so much for providing all these. This one is also good for X550L/N, too. I have had to replace the keyboard due to a couple of key failures. There were no spills or anything; it was just dodgy, I guess. I am looking at replacing the HD with an SSD and then placing the HD in a caddy, as Sprach has done above.
Sprach, did you just copy the recovery partition onto the external and then copy it onto your SSD? How to start the computer if the SSD has nothing on it? I want the original recovery partition. How to do that? Where did you get your caddy? Any advice before I do this? Thanks 🙂
Hi!
I would like to ask you where the warranty seals are. I have 3 years warranty, and I don’t want to lose it. Could you please let me know?