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Razer Blade 2014 Disassembly
In this guide, I’ll explain how to disassemble the Razer Blade 2014 to remove and replace the battery, SSD, wireless card, heat sink, cooling fan, speaker, and motherboard.
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Step 1: Remove the bottom case.
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- Remove ten screws from the bottom case.
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- Pry up the bottom case.
Step 2: Remove the battery.
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- Under the bottom case, you can access the battery, wireless card, SSD, speakers, heat sink, and cooling fan.
- Remove seven screws securing the battery. Remove five black tapes.
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- Disconnect this cable from the motherboard.
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- Disconnect the battery power cable.
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- The battery was removed, it’s an 11.1v, 6400mah capacity Li-ion battery.
Step 3: Remove the SSD.
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- Remove one screw securing the SSD and takes it out.
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- Razer Blade 2014 comes with a Samsung 128GB SSD.
Step 4: Remove the wireless card.
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- Disconnect two antenna cables and remove one screw. The wireless card can be removed.
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- Wireless card
Step 5: Remove the cooling fan.
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- Remove three screws securing the left cooling fan. Unplug the cooling fan cable from the motherboard.
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- The cooling fan has been removed; it’s coming from Foxconn.
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- Remove three screws securing the right cooling fan. Unplug the cooling fan cable from the motherboard.
- Two cooling fans.
Step 6: Remove the heat sink.
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- Remove six screws securing the heat sink. You can remove it.
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- The black mat is covering the screw.
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- The heat sink has been removed.
Step 7: Remove the speakers.
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- Remove two screws securing the left speaker. Disconnect the speaker cable from the motherboard.
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- Remove two screws securing the right speaker. Disconnect the speaker cable from the motherboard.
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- Two speakers
Step 8: Remove the motherboard.
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- Remove all screws securing the motherboard. Disconnect the LCD cable, keyboard cable, touchpad cable, and DC power jack cable. You can remove the motherboard.
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- Touchpad and keyboard
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- Built-in memory chips
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- Intel processor
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- USB port
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- The back of the motherboard
What a great post. excellent photos. I was wondering if you found space for a second SSD.
There is no spare slot for a second SSD
So can you replace the 128GB M.2 SSD in the cheapest model with a 512 GB one from adata or Plextor?
I would suggest the Crucial M550 M.2 2280. It’s $279 on Amazon or Newegg. I own this and got the 512GB unit. The built-in Samsung 512GB has a 300-350MB/s write speed, while the Crucial has a 500+MB/s write speed.
I’m not going to switch mine out to get an extra 150MB/s, but if a 1TB drive ever shows up I’m going to take the plunge.
Also, a T5 is used to remove the screws on the 2014 Blade 14, right?
Hi, I was wondering if you could show me if there is any way of removing the keyboard to replace it with a new one.
Thanks
The keyboard is arguably the worst part of the computer.
Some keys want to be hit several times on occasion.
Worse, the keys are just painted and the paint comes off from typing if you have any fingernails at all. Then you End up with big glowing blotches instead of green letters.
In 20 years of using computers for work and play, I’ve NEVER had a keyboard that was painted. So miserable.
Hi David, nice guide.
I have a question: do you have the part number for the battery or where can I buy a new one? Thanks
There is no replacement battery for the laptop, you should remove the internal cells and replace the cells.
Google ” Razer blade battery,” and you should find one. They are around $120, which is less than the cost of a Razer’s out of warranty $250 repair.
Thanks, Dave! Will take a look at that 🙂
I’m not a Pro on internal laptop parts. Can anyone help me?
What is the size of the M.2 SSD? I want to replace my 256GB SSD with a larger capacity. Does anyone know how to move all the contents (boot drive) to the new one?
The SSD port is NGFF 22x80mm, Model is MZNTE128HMGR-0000.
Hey. Can you please tell me which company has designed or manufactured this motherboard for Razer Blade?
Hello, for some reason, the right side of my keyboard stopped working. I think it was from a bang the laptop took a couple of days ago. It mostly works, just the first two rows on the far right. Is it possible that one of the cables connecting the keyboard to the motherboard is loose? Is there one or more cables connecting the keyboard to the motherboard? Thanks!
You can try reinstall your keyboard, if still not work, you need to repalce your keyboard.
I tried reinstalling the software. But that didn’t help.
Is it possible that the cable connector to the motherboard is loose?
I mean reinstall your keyboard, not software.
Can you please give me the motherboard make and model? I bricked my Razer Blade and need to get the bios file. If you can share the bios that would be wonderful too.
You need to contact Razer Blade to update the Bios.
Very nice and well-explained teardown. I do have one question. In my model, the vertical scanlines appear on the right side of the screen more often than not. They go away for a time if I apply pressure to the side and back of the screen in a certain way. It’s clearly a hardware problem with the screen or cable.
Based on your experience disassembling this computer, can you say anything about how realistic a screen replacement process, or at least a screen cable replacement process, would be?
I’ve noticed that the motherboard for the newest iterations of the Razer Blade 14 has been basically the same. I was wondering if it was possible to take out and upgrade the processor, discrete graphics, and RAM on the motherboard. I understand it’s soldered on the motherboard, but if I use the same parts from a newer iteration of the same laptop, is it possible, and if so, how?
Hi,
In theory, you could exchange the RAM modules with bigger ones, but I can’t predict how it will perform or if it will work because the RAM modules will obviously differ in minor details.
For Example:
Blade 14 2014 uses 32 2GB Samsung 1866 Modules.
If you now go and exchange them with 4GB modules, those models aren’t available in 1866, only in 1600MHz, leading to possible boot problems. The 4GB modules don’t have as many Data Lines as the 2GB modules, and some other pins aren’t connected compared with the 2GB Modules.
It can work, but it is risky!
The same Counts for the GPU RAM.
THERE IS NO WAY that you can exchange the GPU or CPU without knowing all the details from their datasheets.
Have fun getting them from NVIDIA.
Cheers.
Hi, can I ask what type of screw is used in the back cover? thank you
Hey,
My left click is not responsive ( I need to click really hard to make it work). Sometimes, if I shake the laptop hard enough, the left click works for a while. I am not sure of the cause, but how can I access this part of the laptop, and do you have an idea of how to fix this?
I have the same problem.
Hi,
Can you please tell me where can I find a replacement for the LCD cable?
Do you know if I can swap the 2014 motherboard with a 2015?
Thank you!
My GPU just took a dump today and I’m parting mine out. Reply if you’re still interested. Actually parting the whole thing out. If anyone knows how to get the CPU off the board, let me know, I can’t find a guide.
What size screwdriver and type did you use?
Like any 5, 6, or 7, I don’t remember, just buy the Ifixit kit and be good for life.
T* not any
How difficult is it to actually replace the keyboard? Can you just unscrew it from the frame and drop it in another one, or do you need to replace the entire palm rest and screen hinge?
Would anyone be kind enough to advise what is the brand/model of the Charge Controller IC chip? Or better yet refer me to where I can buy a new one as a replacement? Thanks so much in advance.
Good afternoon. Can you tell me where the Bluetooth module is located?