Einleitung
A simple guide on how to replace the processor of your Lenovo T530/T530i
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Flip your laptop upside down, so that the keyboard is facing down.
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Locate the latch located on the battery near the top of the laptop.
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Using your finger, slide the latch to the right-most (Unlocked) position.
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You can now pull the battery away from the laptop. When pulling the battery out, ensure to pull it out straight.
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Using a Phillips #00 screwdriver, unscrew the following screws, and then remove the cover.
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Using a Phillips #00 screwdriver, remove the screw. This is one of the two screws that are holding in the keyboard.
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Using a Phillips #00 screwdriver, unscrew the highlighted screw. This is the last screw securing the keyboard to the laptop.
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Flip the laptop right-side up, with the keyboard facing towards you.
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Open the laptop.
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Place each of your two thumbs on the bottom-left and right most corners of the keyboard (towards the arrow keys, and the Fn (Function) key).
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Gentilly and slowly push the keyboard up (towards the display)
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Lift the two corners of the keyboard up enough to see the ribbon cable below.
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Angle the keyboard upwards, at a 90° angle.
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Keep one finger holding the keyboard up, while using the other to disconnect the ribbon cable. To disconnect the ribbon cable, lift it up by the highlighted yellow end.
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The keyboard is now disconnected from the laptop, and you can remove it and place it aside.
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Reconnect the keyboard ribbon cable by pushing it down onto the slot.
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Push the keyboard down, then pull it back towards your trackpad.
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Using a Phillips #00 screwdriver, re-screw the highlighted screws.
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Reinsert the bottom memory cover, ensuring all clips are in place.
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Using a Phillips #00 tighten the two highlighted screws.
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Using a Philips M2 screwdriver, remove the 2 screws highlighted in yellow. The bottom screw is underneath the hard drive, which should have already been removed.
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Pull the ExpressCard from the ridges on the side, it should pop out of place.
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Using a Philips 2 screwdriver, remove the 7 screws highlighted in red.
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Begin by prying the keyboard bezel up from the edges using a guitar pick or shim between the keyboard bezel and the housing of the laptop, as highlighted in red.
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Locate the ribbon cable near the trackpad highlighted in red, use a flathead screwdriver or some other flat object to push up the locking leaver to then free the ribbon connector.
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Grab the keyboard bezel from the two bottom corners (near the trackpad) and lift the bezel up- and away from the display (away from you).
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Locate the Speaker, on the middle-left of the laptop.
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Remove the two highlighted silver Phillips #00 screws
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Now that the two screws have been removed, you can pull the speaker to the side, as seen in the second photo.
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Using a Phillips #00, loosten the screws in the order below, however do not entirely remove them from the heatsink.
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Loosten the top-left screw
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Loosten the bottom-right screw
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Loosten the bottom-left screw
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Loosten the top-right screw
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Use your hand to unplug the fan cable for the heatsink.
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Using your hand, gently pull the heatsink away from the display (towards the trackpad) enough to move it up.
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Locate the CPU socket, located near the middle of where the heatsink was, using a flathead screwdriver rotate the arrow to the unlock position with the corresponding unlocked padlock icon.
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Lift up the processor from the edges.
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Near the top-left of the socket there should be a small triangle, as highlighted in red.
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Guide the processor into the slot so the golden triangle on the processor lines up with the triangle on the socket.
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Using your syringe of thermal paste, put a pea-sized amount of thermal paste onto the die, highlighted in red.
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To reassemble your device, follow the instructions wherever neccessary in reverse order.
To reassemble your device, follow the instructions wherever neccessary in reverse order.
