Asus LaptopAsus VivoBook U38N
Asus VivoBook U38N Disassembly
This article mainly describes how to disassemble the ASUS VivoBook U38N notebook. From this article, you will learn how to remove and replace the battery, hard drive, memory, wireless card, fans, speakers, and motherboard of this notebook.
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Remove the screws from the bottom case.
Remove the bottom cover.
When the bottom case is removed, you can get access to the internal components, including the battery, RAM, wireless card, heat sink, cooling fan, hard drive, speaker, and motherboard.
Remove all screws securing the battery.
Disconnect the battery connector. You can remove the battery
Remove four screws securing the hard drive and take it out.
ASUS VivoBook U38N comes with an HGST 500GB 5400RPM hard drive.
Under the battery, you can access the touchpad.
The memory is covered with heat dissipation tape.
Separate the clips and remove the memory.
ASUS VivoBook U38N comes with an SK Hynix 2GB DDR3-1600MHz memory.
Remove one screw.
Disconnect two antenna cables. You can remove the wireless card.
CMOS battery
Unplug the fan cables and remove the screws to remove the two fans.
The screw was covered by the Asus label. If you damage it, you will void the warranty.
Remove all screws securing the heat sink.
The fan heatsink, the CPU fan and the GPU fan are different, so please don’t mix them up.
A photo of the remaining parts.
The South Bridge
The CPU
ASUS VivoBook U38N motherboard
LOL, and the screen? What you showed is pretty straight forward, but the screen may require prying.
You can try to remove the screen and write a guide or register a contributor account and publish your guides.
Is the chassis (black part) die cast or plastic?
Thanks, very helpful.
What is the type and size of screws on the bottom case?
Hi, Adam, did you find the type and size of the screws?
Yep, Adam, Jose,
I am also interested because there are already four missing from my unit. 🙂
Also, I think the latest fall broke the heatpipe cooler (also known as Asus U38N THERMAL MODULE ASSY) because a simple loading of some page with FF brings the CPU to 90 degrees and it immediately starts to throttle.
Anyway, thanks for the pictures, this is how I found the P/N of the heat pipe. 🙂