Asus G550JKAsus Laptop
Asus G550JK Disassembly
In this guide, I’ll explain how to disassemble the Asus G550JK to remove and replace the battery, hard drive, DVD drive, wireless, RAM, heat sink, speakers, keyboard, cooling fan, and motherboard.
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Remove all screws from the bottom case.
Pry up and remove the bottom case; you can find the battery, heat sink and cooling fan, hard drive, RAM, wireless card, and DVD drive.
Separate the clips.
Remove two RAMs.
The laptop comes with two Samsung 4GB PC3L-12800S RAM.
Disconnect two antenna cables and remove the screw. You can remove the wireless card.
Asus G550JK features an Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 wireless card.
Remove four screws securing the silver bezel. You can remove the silver bezel.
Remove one screw securing the DVD drive. You can remove the DVD drive.
Asus G550JK comes with a Panasonic UJ8E2 DVD drive.
Remove the screws securing the battery.
It comes with a 15v, 4000mah Li-polymer battery.
Remove the screws securing the hard drive module.
Disconnect the cable from the motherboard.
Asus G550JK features an HGST 1TB 7200RPM hard drive.
In the next step, I will remove the speaker and cooling fan.
Power board
Remove four screws and disconnect the cable from the motherboard. You can remove the speakers.
Remove two screws securing the left cooling fan.
Disconnect the cooling fan cable.
Remove two screws securing the right cooling fan and disconnect the cooling fan cable.
Remove eight screws securing the heat sink.
Here’s the heat sink and cooling fan, which is coming from SUNON.
The motherboard has been removed.
Intel processor
Can you post how to remove the keyboard from a G550JK and/or N550JK? I would like to know how and also figure out if the G550JK keyboard will be a match (fit and plugs) for the N550JK because I do not like silver keys with white backlight. I can either send my keyboard to a place to get the backlight color changed and see if it fits. I want to just replace my N550JK keyboard with a G550JK one and maybe even use the top cover as well.
Thanks
What size Torx screwdriver was required to remove the back panel? What type and what size screwdriver would be required to remove the hard drive from its caddy?
The Torx size is T-5 for the back panel. The hard drive screws are M2x4 Philips heads (a typical computer small Philips screwdrivers will do ).
If I remove the back panel and DVD drive to replace them with a second SSD drive, do I void the warranty (and any warranty stickers )?
Hi, I need to disassemble my g550jk in order to tighten the touchpad because it’s making some clicking noises while tapping on it, but first, I need to make sure I know what to do. So I found some guides for Macbook Pro with the same problem, and all there is to be done is to tighten a small torx screw under the battery. So here is the question: http://oi61.tinypic.com/aovtrq.jpg is this black thing on the picture (marked with the red circle) the thing I’m looking for? thanks for help
Hi, I need to disassemble my G550jk to add an SSD by removing the optical drive. The SSD came with a spacer (that fits 9.5 mm). Is the spacer enough to set up the drive? Do I need a caddy? Can I simply put the SSD directly into the SATA port without any support?
SSD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148792