Disassembling The Main Unit; Removing The Heatsink And Cpu Emi Shield; Removing The Hard Disk Drive - Acer TravelMate 505 Service Manual

Disassembling the Main Unit

Removing the Heatsink and CPU EMI Shield

1.
Remove the five screws holding the system heatsink.
2. Slide the heatsink to the left side and take it out from the main unit.
3. Remove the CPU EMI shield from the main unit.
4.
At CN8, disconnect the RTC battery cable from the mainboard and then lift it away from the upper case.

Removing the Hard Disk Drive

1.
At CN17, remove the hard disk drive from the mainboard.
2.
At CN18, disconnect the touchpad cable from the mainboard.
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