Lenovo IdeaPad Y580 Disassembly

In this guide, I’ll explain how to disassemble the Lenovo IdeaPad Y580 to remove the bottom case, hard drive, RAM, DVD drive, keyboard, palm rest, wireless card, heat sink, cooling fan, card reader, and motherboard.

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Unscrew these two screws.

Open the cover and remove the hard disk and CD-ROM.

Remove the hard drive and optical drive.

Tighten all the screws out of the D surface, and tear down all the cables and plugs.

Turn over the laptop. Pry up a row of the dark button. You can remove the keyboard.
Disconnect the cable. The palm rest will be removed.

Take down the palm rest and keyboard.

Y580 palm rest

When the palm rest is removed, you can see the internal structure of Y580.
Remove two screws securing the motherboard and disconnect three cables.

Y580 Bluetooth module and card reader

It is an HM76 motherboard chipset (red marked).

The motherboard can be taken down.

The bottom case and motherboard have been removed.

Y580’s JBL speakers
The left hinge is fixed by two screws in the bottom case; unscrew it.

Remove the right hinge.

Remove the screen.

LCD cable

Here’s the wireless antenna fixed on the screen hinge

The motherboard and heat sink

Y580 heat sink, the 8mm heat pipe

The back of the Y580 heat sink

Y580 motherboard

HM67 motherboard chip

Intel i5-3210M processor

For more guides, check out the Lenovo IdeaPad Y580 device page.