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Lenovo IdeaPad U410 Disassembly
In this guide, I’ll explain how to disassemble the Lenovo IdeaPad U410 to remove and replace the battery, hard drive, keyboard, palm rest, wireless card, RAM, heat sink, cooling fan, speaker, and motherboard.
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First of all, turn over your laptop. Remove four rubber mats.
Note: no screws in the lower left corner of the mat.
Remove three screws from the bottom case.
Pry up the bottom case with a crowbar.
You can also use the guitar picks.
The bottom case has been removed.
Now, you can get access to the battery, wireless LAN, memory, heat sink, and cooling fan.
Disconnect the battery connector from the motherboard.
The battery power cable has been removed.
Remove three screws securing the battery. You can remove the battery.
The laptop comes with a 7.4v, 59wh Li-polymer battery.
Remove the hard drive cable from the motherboard.
Remove three screws securing the hard drive assembly.
The hard drive assembly
If you want to replace or upgrade the hard drive, you need to remove four screws from the hard drive caddy.
Remove one screw securing the SSD and takes it away.
It comes with a 32GB Samsung mSATA SSD.
Remove the RAM. Lenovo IdeaPad U410 has two memory slots.
Disconnect two antenna cables.
Remove one screw securing the wireless card.
Wireless card
Disconnect the left speaker cable.
Left speaker
Now we will remove the USB board and lift up the black holder with your fingers.
Pull out the cable.
Remove two screws securing the USB board.
Now, you can remove the USB board.
Disconnect the CMOS battery cable.
Disconnect the cooling fan cable.
Remove one screw securing the cooling fan. Loosen six screws securing the heat sink. You can remove the heat sink and cooling fan.
The heat sink and cooling fan
Remove the cooling fan. You can replace it with a new cooling fan.
Now you can access the Ivy Bridge and GT610M Graphics chips.
Three Samsung chips
Disconnect the touchpad cable and power indicator cable.
Disconnect the LCD cable.
Disconnect the power button and one key restore module cable.
Unplug the speaker and camera module connector from the motherboard.
Disconnect the power plug.
Remove all screws securing the motherboard.
The motherboard
I have a U410 Touch, and the plastic that supports the hinges to the top lid or the screen broke. I want to change the case, so I bought a new lid and everything, but I have not been able to remove the screen of the broken case.
1. Is it possible to remove the screen from the case? If it is, can you please tell me how I can avoid breaking it?
2. If it is not possible to take out the screen, what should I do? Just wait until Lenovo gets the parts to fix it because they are taking forever, or just try my luck?
You should remove the whole display assembly, then remove the screen, LCD cable, camera, and other parts from the old lid, then install it to your new lid. I suggest going to the repair store.
The same problem happened to me. Can you tell me where to find plastic parts and hinges to fix mine? Please!
Very helpful guide. Thanks for posting this.
I tried to replace the hard drive with an SSD but now the laptop won’t power on, even after replacing the original hard drive. I disconnected the battery and then replaced the hard drive. No response to the power button. No activity. Any ideas?
P.S. I have successfully replaced hard drives multiple times in the past without any problems.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Whoever wrote that article, you are my hero; thank you so much! There is no YouTube video out there and I was about to take out the keyboard (or try to do so).
I hope I will get it right, I really have to clean that fan!
Thanks again!
There are no visual indications about how to remove the integrated laptop keyboard. Can the author update this guide for abroad usefulness?
Thanks!