Palm Rest Disassembly

Geschrieben von: Benjamin Poirier

Kommentare: 9

Schwierigkeitsgrad

Easy

Schritte

Zeitaufwand

5 Minuten

Einleitung

Follow this disassembly to remove the top casing of your laptop.

Werkzeuge

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Turn power off using the power button located in the top left corner of the keyboard. Press and hold the power button for 3 seconds until it turns off.

Schritt 2

Close the laptop and flip it over so that the HP cover logo is on the underside of the laptop.

Schritt 3

Locate the battery and the two switches that release the battery when they are unlocked.

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Slide the left switch to the right so that the icon of a locked padlock is no longer visible and the icon of an unlocked padlock is now visible.

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With your left hand, slide the right switch to the left and hold it in place. This will unlock the battery and allow you to easily slide it out of its port.
While holding the switch in place, use your right hand to gently remove the battery from its port.

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Remove the thirteen 7 mm PH1 Phillips head screws from the bottom of the laptop.

You need three more screws, for a total of 16. The other three are inside the RAM module compartment (so I guess that's really 18 screws, counting what you need to do to get the compartment open).

John Lasseter -

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Remove the keyboard connection from the laptop by flipping up the black tab on the ZIF connector.

You also need to disconnect the track pad (middle left) and power button connectors (top left). The tabs to lift on those are white, while with the keyboard, you lift the black part of the connector.

John Lasseter -

Schritt 9

Remove the palm rest using the blue spudger tool.

This step is not even close to being descriptive enough. The keyboard underlayment will not easy detach from the palm rest. Damage to the USB port will occur.

Joe Simmons - 20/03/18

Where is the removal of the ODD? There are three silver screws.

briana.dcooper - 01/11/18

Neither one of these comments were very helpful. You cannot remove the metal keyboard tray and palm rest without popping out the DVD drive using a small pin or paperclip to force eject the drive. The three silver screws can be reached after the DVD drive is extracted, then go remove the five screws from the metal tray. You will also need to unplug the trackpad and power button cable ribbons by flipping the tabs up and gently pulling them out from the connector. After this is done, then you can remove the palm rest and tray as one unit.

bgibson72 - 13/11/19

Thanks everyone never been stump on opening a laptop

richard hall - 21/05/21

If you skip the three screws on the underside that are inside the RAM module compartment, the area around the track pad won't come loose, and this is the most fragile part of the case.

John Lasseter -

I cannot speak to the f033 but I have an f023wm with similar casing. However, beware the keyboard underlayment is riveted to the palmrest plastic framing and does not separate as the f033 model is showing it does. Lift the whole palmrest and underlayment up together. There was much trouble in freeing it from the bottom case especially around the hinge area but I found if I took a spudger to the back under the screen I could gently break loose the plastic latches and then the corners freed up too.

B. A. Computer Services -