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Asus VivoBook S550CM Disassembly and RAM, SSD Upgrade Options
In this guide, I’ll explain how to disassemble the Asus VivoBook S550CM to remove and replace the battery, hard drive, SSD, DVD drive, wireless card, RAM, heat sink, USB board, cooling fan, and motherboard.
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First of all, unlock and remove the battery. Remove two screws securing the service cover.
Remove the memory cover.
Remove three screws securing the hard drive. Lift up the black tape and slide it to the left.
The laptop features a 1TB Samsung hard drive.
Asus VivoBook S550CM comes with two 4GB DDR3 1600MHz rams.
Remove one screw securing the DVD drive. Pull out the DVD drive.
It features a Panasonic UJ8C2 9.5mm SATA DVD writer.
Remove all screws from the bottom case. Pry up and remove the bottom case.
Under the bottom case, you can access the SSD, wireless card, heat sink, and cooling fan.
Remove one screw securing the SSD and take it out from its slot.
Kingston 24GB SSD, made in Taiwan.
Disconnect two wireless antenna cables.
Remove one screw securing the wireless card.
Azurewave AW-NE186H, model: AR5B125.
Disconnect the cable and remove one screw. You can remove the USB board.
The USB board integrated two USB ports and a 3.5mm headset jack.
Remove eight screws securing the heat sink and cooling fan. You can remove it.
Heat sink and cooling fan, cooling fan OEM by Sunon.
Asus VivoBook S550CM motherboard
Is this the easiest way to replace the keyboard?
Can you please tell me where is the Bios location / CMOS battery
I have a problem with Bios i need to reset the Bios
Thanks
Two questions:
1) If I’m swapping my HDD for an SSD, should I remove the 24GB cache drive?
2) Do you have any advice for removing the digitizer and LED panel? I’m trying to replace my panel, but I don’t want to crack the glass as I’ve never worked on a touch screen before.
Thanks!!
Justin
You do not need to remove the 24GB SSD; you can search for an Asus maintenance guide for removing the touch screen.
Thanks so much for the reply! As for the repair manual, I have been searching for weeks for a guide or manual on how to remove a touchscreen from any Asus laptop (there are lots for the Asus tablet). I’ve tried googling for any very derivation of the Asus service manual but can’t seem to track one down. Could I bother you to point me in the right direction?
Cheers
Justin
where is the video card location????
I need help removing the disc drive, I remove all the screws at sight, but the bottom board is still stuck at the DVD part. The rest of the bottom cover is already off.
Your question is not clear.
To remove the DVD drive, you only need to remove the single screw near the back side of the case. You don’t need to take the case off to remove the drive.
If you’re talking about the HDD, it’s only the 3 screws shown in the above guide, and then the drive is easily removed (just slide it to the left to unplug, then it can easily be removed)
I’ve removed all the screws on the backside of the case. The DVD drive is not budging.
I think I’m stuck at the same point. Looking at other Asus tear-downs online, there appears to be a screw that releases the drive ~2″ to the left of the Asus label. On mine, there is a small square and an icon beside it that looks like a disc. I’m guessing that the square should pop off somehow to reveal the screw then. I can’t get it to budge and don’t want to force it (especially if I’m wrong ;p), So I guess I’ll take it to a repair shop.
The screw for the optical drive is covered with a black rubber. Remove the rubber first.
Hi, is it possible to install a Nvidia graphics card? Is there an MXM slot? 🙂
Thank you
I have an Asus Vivobook S550CM with a defective 24GB SSD as detected by some utilities where SMART failed. My laptop is booting very slowly, I think more than 5 minutes to be accurate, but once it gets into Windows, everything is normal. I purchased a second 24GB SSD online with the same specs and model as the original. Is it safe to install the replacement SSD without doing anything?
I thought I would post this here since it was a bit of a hard find. This post doesn’t note it, but there is a little piece of black tape that you hardly notice in the middle of the back panel. It is about where you would imagine the DVD drive screw to be. You have to peel this piece of tape off (I used a needle-pin) to find the screw. This video at about the 2:00 minute mark shows it best: https://youtu.be/w95gpUxIp7Y?t=1m57s. Hope this helps someone!
Hi, is it possible to change the CPU on this motherboard or is it soldered on it?
Thanks
The CPU is soldered on the motherboard, so it can not change.
I have an Asus S550CB without an SD drive.
I want to add one, but I don’t know which kind of SSD drive is suitable for it. Can you help me?
I think Samsung 850 Evo and 750 Evo 2.5″ SATA3 SSD will work on your laptop.
What about Adata Primier Pro SP310 SATA III 6Gb/s mSATA SSD Drive?
And just 24 G I must buy or not?
Hi, Is there a free MXM slot?
Yes
I showed it to a repairman, and he said that a mini m2 is suitable for it.
So can you guide me on which one exists?
Can anyone give me a guide or info on replacing the battery in the VivoBook S550CA?
Trying to decide if it’s worth doing (battery costs labor).
Thank you.
Very enlightening post. I really appreciate it, if I may.
I own an S550CB-CJ020H fitted by default with two 4GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM. I am wondering if it is possible to expand that RAM and fit my S550CB with two 8GB RAM.
If this is the case, do you have any suggestions on which 8GB RAM I should choose to get the maximum out of my S550CB?
Thank you very much.
Rob
As far as I know, the laptop supports a maximum of 8GB RAM. However, you can contact ASUS to confirm this.
Thanks a lot.
I’ll check with ASUS.
I have this laptop (S550CB), which by default has 6 GB of RAM (2GB+4GB). I removed 2GB and replaced it with 4GB.
I don’t think that this laptop supports more than 8GB RAM.
In the Specifications table of this laptop about RAM:
“Memory: DDR3 1600 MHz SDRAM, up to 8GB”
Thanks a lot for the information you provide.
Rob
I have a s550CA, which also says it only supports a maximum of 8 GB DDR3. I opened it up to change RAM, and it had 4GB and 2GB installed. The 4 was accessible, but the 2 was only visible, blocked by the case. I changed the 4GBb for 8GB, and it saw 10GB, so I knew 8 was not the limit. The 2GB was still stuck inside. I continued to disassemble the case until I could reach the 2GB and replaced it with 8GB. Now I have 16GB, although ASUS and Crucial said only 8GB is supported. Probably because the other chips are visible but not “user accessible”.
Thanks for the info mate!
Can I change the 24GB SSD and put a 120GB SSD?
Yes! you can replace the 24GB SSD with a 120GB SSD.
What form factor is the SSD? I read that it is an mSATA, but it’s not the same size as a standard mSATA.
It’s a mini mSATA SSD, but can I mount a standard-size mSATA?
Its a half size mSATA SSD. I found an interesting article http://tieba.baidu.com/p/3669513613 (the article is in Chinese). The author moves the screw column to install the standard mSATA SSD.
I have an Asus s550cb-cj019h blocked by Intel anti-theft. Assistance can not resolve the issue. What can I do?