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Before you begin
Read this website's Legal Guidelines and make sure you understand the risks of this repair. Place your HP Laptop on a clean flat and soft surface, such as a rubber mat or a piece of soft cloth and get the required opening tools.
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Step 2
The power panel above the keyboard is the first thing that we need to remove. Use the green tool to create some space between the power panel cover and the hinge.
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Step 3
Use the green tools on the sides of the power panel cover and release the clips that are holding it in.
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Step 4
Here is a good angle of how you can use the edge of the green tool to wedge between the power pane land the laptop. Do this all the way around the power panel until it is able to slightly be lifted from the laptop.
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Step 5
There is a ribbon cable underneath the power panel. This needs to be released using a small flat head screw driver or anything that can easily loosen to the taps on the latch.
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Step 6
This is what the laptop looks like after the power panel is removed.
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Step 10
The keyboard is held in by a ribbon cable that needs to be removed. You can use the green tool to release the latch.
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Step 13
There are some philips head screws that hold the palm rest in place that need to be removed.
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Step 12
Once all the screws are removed you can then use the green tool to release the palm rest by working your way around the edge and releasing the clips holding it in.
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Step 15
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Step 16
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Step 17
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Step 18
This is the cable that connects the screen to the logicboard it needs to be disconnected.
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Step 19
On the other side are the antenna cables that connect to the wifi board that also need to be removed.
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Step 20
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Step 21
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Step 22
Once the Screen cable is disconnected you can then lift it out of the hinge. Be careful not to do the other side since the antenna cables still need to be removed to lift out the other side of the screen.
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Step 23
There are a couple screws that need to be removed in order to get to the wifi board here is one of them.
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Step 24
Here is another.
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Step 25
This is the wifi board with the two antenna cables connected to it.
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Step 26
Here are the 2 antenna cables.
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Step 27
Remove them carefully. You can use a small flathead screwdriver if you can not get down there all the way.
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Step 28
This shows the antenna cable and how it runs along the palm rest.
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Step 29
This is where the antenna calbes go through the logicboard and the palm rest to the other side of the laptop.
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Step 30
Pull the cables up and out from the other side so you can see the tips of the wires.
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Step 31
Remove the wiring from the palm rest and then you can remove the other side of the screen away from the logicboard.
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Step 32
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Step 33
This is what the laptop looks like with the screen and the keyboard removed.
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Step 34
Here is another picture of the palm rest.
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Step 35
In the center towards the top of the palm rest there is a cable that needs to be removed. You can use the green tool to release it from the connector.
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Step 36
There is another connector that needs to be removed. Use the green tool to release the latch that is holding it in.
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Step 37
This is what it looks like once the latch is removed.
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Step 38
The palm rest can now be lifted up and away from the logicboard.
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Step 39
Here is a picture of the logicboard.
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Step 40
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Step 41
There are some screws that need to be removed in order to get the logicboard out of the bottom casing.
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Step 42
They will be pointe dout by arrows there are a couple of them.
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Step 43
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Step 44
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Step 45
There are some cables that need to be disconnected in order to remove the logicboard from the bottom casing.
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Step 46
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Step 47
Remove the wifi board by pulling it to the right away from the connector. loosen up the antenna cables so they can be removed more easily.
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Step 48
There is a screw that was below the wifi card that needs to be removed.
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Step 49
Once all the cables and screws are removed you can then remove the logicboard out of the bottom casing.
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