Lenovo LaptopLenovo ThinkPad T540p
Lenovo ThinkPad T540p Disassembly
In this guide, I’ll explain how to disassemble the Lenovo ThinkPad T540p to remove and replace the SSD, keyboard, palm rest, wireless card, RAM, heat sink and cooling fan, speaker, and motherboard.
Follow us on Facebook for the latest updates from MyFixGuide.com.
Unlock and remove the battery.
Remove one screw securing the wireless card cover and remove the cover. You can access the wireless card and a spare NGFF slot.
Disconnect two antennas and remove one screw. You can remove the wireless card.
Here’s the wireless card.
Remove two screws securing the service cover and remove the service cover.
The Lenovo ThinkPad T540p has two memory slots, a mini PCI-E slot (already installed wireless card) and an NGFF SSD slot.
Samsung 8GB PC3L-12800S RAM
Remove one screw securing the SSD and remove it.
The Lenovo ThinkPad T540p features a Samsung 256G 2.5″ SSD.
Remove the screws that hold the optical drive.
Pull out the optical drive.
The laptop features a Panasonic UJ-862 9.5mm SATA optical drive.
The ThinkPad T540p has an unusual keyboard design. The border between the filled keycaps can be slid up and down. Its keyboard has three grooves that can be pushed upward through the border between its keycaps, after which the six screws that hold the keyboard in place are exposed, and they can be individually removed to loosen the keyboard.
Remove the keyboard and palm rest.
The keyboard has been removed.
The back of the keyboard
Under the palm rest, you can get access to the heat sink and cooling fan.
Loosen seven screws securing the heat sink and disconnect the cooling fan cable from the motherboard. You can remove the heat sink and cooling fan.
The heat sink and cooling fan
Motherboard
Graphics card
Intel processor
For more guides, check out the Lenovo ThinkPad T540p device page.
Can you tell me which M.2 SSD cards fit into the Lenovo T540p? And does it go right next to the WL Lan card? Thanks
Hi,
I’m having issues with removing the service cover of the wireless card cover. I feel like I’m going to break it. I’ve removed the service cover over the optical drive but can’t seem to put it back into place. Is there a trick to it?
Let me know soon!
I hope you have fixed it in the meantime. There is only one screw. Just lose it (it won’t come out; it’s secured to fall apart). After that just pull the cover a bit.
Hi,
Thanks for the amazing article, I bought this laptop but didn’t select the Nvidia Graphics card when I ordered it from Lenovo, and now I’m regretting it. I would like to know if it is possible to remove the integrated Intel graphics card (I called Lenovo, and they said it was already soldered to the motherboard) and install my own graphics card on it. I do notice there is no PCI-express slot or anything like that. If at all possible could you help me with a small guide on how to uninstall the existing Intel Graphics Card and Replace it with a new one? Thanks very much!
Is it really necessary to remove the keyboard when I just want to renew the heat paste on the CPU, GPU, and Chipset?