Asus LaptopAsus S46C
Asus S46C Disassembly and HDD, RAM Upgrade Options
In this guide, I’ll explain how to disassemble the Asus S46C to remove the RAM, hard drive, wireless card, keyboard, heat sink, cooling fan, and motherboard.
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Remove two screws securing the service cover and remove the cover.
Under the cover, you can access the hard drive and RAM.
Remove the screws securing the hard drive module. Lift up the black tape and remove the hard drive module.
Remove the screw and pull out the optical drive.
Pry up the bottom case with a pry bar.
Disconnect the speaker cable from the motherboard. The bottom case can be removed.
When the case is removed, you can access the RAM, wireless card, SSD, heat sink, and cooling fan.
Asus S46c LCD hinge
Asus S46c heat sink
Asus S46c has two RAM slots. It comes with a 4GB Samsung RAM.
Asus S46c cooling fan
Asus S46c USB board
Half size SSD and wireless card
Wireless card
I want to buy a used S46C from a friend, but a 24GB SSD is useless for me. Is the SSD a PCIe mini card device? Can I replace it with another of bigger capacity if I find it? I don’t really have access to open the laptop case. They don’t want to screw the warranty, so I can’t see if another device fits or anything. What should I look for in the range of 60-120GB? thanks in advance
It is a half-size mSATA port, you can replace it with a bigger SSD.
Can I replace the SATA hard disk with another SSD and keep the 24GB SSD card?
Yes!
Thanks for the reply, I ended up buying the laptop, but instead of replacing the half mSATA for a bigger one, I replaced the SATA 2.5″ HDD for a 2.5″ SSD (much easier to find for me) and used a “second HDD caddy” to put the 500GB HDD in the DVD port, now I use the DVD drive as an external USB DVD drive, the mSATA SSD is there but I don’t really use it for anything :P, I don’t regret anything tough, everything works great.
Hey, how can I replace the CMOS battery? I can’t seem to find it. I need to replace it because my laptop’s timezone keeps changing constantly.
I have a similar problem because my Asus S46C runs only Bios. People at the forum suggest that it may be necessary to replace the CMOS battery. Where can I find it?
Hello! do you recommend some model of WLAN for 5 MHz to change the Atheros 2.4 only?
And I have a problem with Windows 10: It doesn’t detect the SD reader. What can I do?
Thank you