Well with the arrival of my second M6400, this one now detailed in my Sig, the first order of buisness was to drop in two 320 GB 7200 RPM drives and my OEM QX9300 CPU.
So open this baby up I did, and this time I took some shots and will add some comments out the process.
Step One.
Remove the Battery, bottom Base assembly cover, and hard drives.
Step Two.
Remove laptop LED Cover (Bezel) - this requires some care as the power on cable is connected on the underside of the bezel right by the power button.
Also if you have the finger print reader there is a very small ribbon cable that has to be disconnected - carefully, From this exeperiance I suggest placing the bezel at the top of the laptop and after removing the keyboard disconnect the ribbon cable from the main board - it was much easier to reconnect this way, and I dam near broke the small connector on the bezel end.
Step three.
Remove the 4 screws for the keyboard and slide the keyboard upwards toward the screen to disconnect it from the laptop.
Step four.
Flip the laptop over and remove the four m2.5 x 8 mm screws.
Step five.
Back to the top side of the laptop there are nine of 2.5 x 3 mm screws marked P to remove.
From here there are several cables to disconnect depending o your build, but they are all visiable, and even if you miss one, you will notice was you start lifting up on the palm rest assembly
Also note, I did not have to remove the display, but I did remove the screws located on the top of the base unit for the display.
Step six
gently pry the palm rest from the bottom base unit, once you get it started it goes fairly easy, Slow and easy is the key here, just in case you missed a cable.
once the palm rest is removed you will have full access to the GPU and CPU assembly.
The CPU swap was a breeze, and also applied some AS5 of course, the Stock thermal compound was crap IMO.
So open this baby up I did, and this time I took some shots and will add some comments out the process.
Step One.
Remove the Battery, bottom Base assembly cover, and hard drives.
Step Two.
Remove laptop LED Cover (Bezel) - this requires some care as the power on cable is connected on the underside of the bezel right by the power button.
Also if you have the finger print reader there is a very small ribbon cable that has to be disconnected - carefully, From this exeperiance I suggest placing the bezel at the top of the laptop and after removing the keyboard disconnect the ribbon cable from the main board - it was much easier to reconnect this way, and I dam near broke the small connector on the bezel end.
Step three.
Remove the 4 screws for the keyboard and slide the keyboard upwards toward the screen to disconnect it from the laptop.
Step four.
Flip the laptop over and remove the four m2.5 x 8 mm screws.
Step five.
Back to the top side of the laptop there are nine of 2.5 x 3 mm screws marked P to remove.
From here there are several cables to disconnect depending o your build, but they are all visiable, and even if you miss one, you will notice was you start lifting up on the palm rest assembly
Also note, I did not have to remove the display, but I did remove the screws located on the top of the base unit for the display.
Step six
gently pry the palm rest from the bottom base unit, once you get it started it goes fairly easy, Slow and easy is the key here, just in case you missed a cable.
once the palm rest is removed you will have full access to the GPU and CPU assembly.
The CPU swap was a breeze, and also applied some AS5 of course, the Stock thermal compound was crap IMO.
