Important Make sure you have and use the right tools. Many small screws require a sharp small screwd

Important Make sure you have and use the right tools. Many small screws require a sharp small screwdriver and using the wrong size may damage the screw and screwdriver. Opening your Laptop will void its warranty. You are responsible for your Laptop and open it at your own risk. Introduction tabletop food warmer This guide will show you how to fully open and disassemble a Samsung R510 Notebook / Laptop. Laptops are always tricky to open but I am happy to say the Samsung R510 isn't that bad. Essentially to fully disassemble a Samsung R510 involves doing the below steps more or less in the order as follows, Step 1 - Remove battery, CD / DVD unit and Hard Drive Step 2 - Keyboard removal Step 3 - Disconnect SPK, MIC, Touchpad and remove top cover Step 4 - Disconnect the LCD connector, WiFi module, Internal tabletop food warmer hinge screws and Monitor screen Step 5 - Removing the Motherboard Step 6 - Fan and Heatsink removal Step 7 - Cleaning and Refitting Putting it back together involves reversing the steps above but if you decide to take the heatsink off you must renew the thermal material before re-attaching the heatsink. This means removing and cleaning the old thermal material completely from the Processor, Northbridge chip and heatsink. I used Isopropanol Alcohol (IPA) to clean the old thermal material and applied Artic Cooling MX-2 thermal compound. Step 1 - Remove battery, CD / DVD unit and Hard Drive Place the R510 on a flat surface, upside down. Place a soft cloth to protect the piano black lid.
Slide this entire silver unit left Step 2 - Keyboard removal Flip the R510 the right way up and open the screen. Along the bottom of the keyboard tabletop food warmer are three protruding plastic clips. These clips prevent the keyboard from being pulled tabletop food warmer out. You will have to push and hold each clip inwards and at the same time pull the keyboard up. Once the base of the keyboard tabletop food warmer has cleared the clip, release the clip. This process will have to be repeated for each clip.
The tabletop food warmer last clip, under the cursor key I used a small flat head screwdriver tabletop food warmer to push and hold each plastic clip inwards, then carefully pull the keyboard up. I was just about able to use my finger nails to pull up from under a few of the keyboard keys. Alternatively use a flat piece of card or plastic, eg credit card. Once the keyboard is no longer being secured by the 3 clips, carfully tabletop food warmer raise the keyboard. Do not pull it out, as you will see it is still attached to the motherboard via a plastic ribbon cable.
Notice the black strip has been raised in a vertical position With the black latch open, slide the plastic ribbon cable out, then close the latch. You can now fully remove the keyboard. Step 3 - Disconnect SPK, MIC, Touchpad and remove top cover With the keyboard out you should now be able to see a few more connectors. These must be disconnected so we can remove the top cover.
Touchpad connector, another plastic style ribbon cable To detach tabletop food warmer the touchpad, slide the darker beige plastic part downwards. This will release the ribbon cable for the touchpad allowing you to pull it out.
A colourful illustration showing where certain screws tabletop food warmer are We are almost ready to remove the top cover but first a number of screws must be removed. Referring tabletop food warmer to the picture above, I have highlighted where the screws are. Different colours represent a different type of screw. tabletop food warmer To avoid confusion it is best to remove screws of the same type, keeping them somewhere tabletop food warmer safe in their groups. First remove the 15x screws highlighted in green. Then remove the 3x screws highlighted in orange. tabletop food warmer
Close up of the left hinge screw, right is identical. Highlighted as purple (above) Flip the R510 back to its normal position and open the screen lid. With all the securing screws now removed, the top cover can carefully be pulled away from the base. The left, bottom and right side of the top cover are clipped to the base. The upper part which is under the screen has no clips and was secured only to the base by the 3x screws highlighted above in orange.
The left corner, the top cover is slightly raised. I found it easier to start from the left corner, tabletop food warmer pull the top cover from the base working tabletop food warmer your way along the edge. You will hear a click noise when pulling the top cover from the base which will indicate a clip has been unclipped.
The top cover, partially away from the base The top cover can flex sightly, working from the left corner I used one hand to keep the left corner of the top cover separated from the base and the other hand to work along the edge, carefully pulling the cover from the base. Once you have unclipped the top cover from the base, push the monitor screen fully back. This will allow you to extract the top cover completely. Step 4 - Disconnect the LCD connector, WiFi module, Internal hinge screws and Monitor screen The LCD screen prevents the motherboard from being removed, due to the left hinge.
The top cover has been removed, revealing the motherboard Be careful when handling the motherbo