Sony Vaio VGN-S260 Fan Replacement

Geschrieben von: Jeffrey Bryan

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Schwierigkeitsgrad

Difficult

Schritte

Zeitaufwand

20 Minuten

Einleitung

How to disassemble the fan of a Sony Vaio VGN-S260 laptop

Werkzeuge

Phillips #00 Screwdriver

Schritt 1

Flip the laptop over so the Vaio logo is facing down.
Locate the battery at the top and Find the release and unlock slides on the battery.
Slide the unlock tab to the unlock position.
Slide the release tab in the direction of the arrow, i.e. towards the unlock tab.

Schritt 2

With the tabs still in the unlock position, slide the battery away from the main case.

Schritt 3

Flip the computer over so the Vaio logo is facedown.
Unscrew the 2 screws next to the battery.

Schritt 4

Flip the computer over again so the Vaio logo is face up.
Open the lid.

Schritt 5

Press down on the outer gray shell around the keyboard.
Use the spudger to gently lift keyboard.
Do not pull up the keyboard too far as it is attached to a ribbon underneath.

There are 2 spring-held latches, one above the F4 and one above the F12. Push a latch up into the frame of the keyboard, then lift the keyboard gently in that area so the latch doesn't spring back. Then push the other latch and the keyboard will be released.

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Schritt 6

Lift up lever underneath the ribbon to detach the keyboard.

Schritt 7

Remove memory/wireless compartment cover.

Schritt 8

Flip so the Vaio Logo is face down.
Locate and remove a total of 8 screws on the bottom.

There are 2 more screws on the bottom, one in the middle of the front next to the flash stick socket, and one under the memory door.

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Schritt 9

Find and remove 5 screws (they all have arrows next to them) from cover.

Schritt 10

Flip the laptop over so the Vaio logo is face up.
Use the spudger to pop up the upper casing.
Do not lift too much as the upper casing is attached to wires underneath.
Remove the wires that are attaching the upper casing to the motherboard.

There are also 5 screws from the top of the uppercasing.

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The are 4 cables to remove: flat cable for the power and S buttons at top center; flat cable for the touchpad at bottom center; and 2 twisted pairs for the speakers.

The speaker cable socket is very delicate. If all you are getting at is the CPU or the hard drive, it may be enough to disconnect the flat cables and gently rotate the uppercasing shifting it left to allow access to the right-hand side with the CPU fan and the hard drive.

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The top panel has cutouts that allow the cables to be disconnected before the top of the case is removed. The two flat cables are not clamped and can be pulled vertically out of their connectors. The delicate speaker cables are connected to the motherboard with plugs which can be gently levered up out of their sockets.

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Schritt 11

Remove the upper casing.

Schritt 12

Remove the screw holding the optical drive casing to the logic board.

This screw is from the bottom, will not be there since you removed it to get the uppercasing.

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However, there is a screw on the bottom right of the PC-CARD cage to remove.

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Schritt 13

Locate ribbon connecting optical drive case to logic board.
Pop off the ribbon.
Remove the metal PC-Card cage.

Schritt 14

Remove the four screws holding the optical drive to the logic board.

Schritt 15

Locate brown locking tab above optical drive.
Lift up on brown locking tab until ribbon is loose.
Gently slide out and remove the optical drive from the computer.

Schritt 16

Remove the blue ribbon from the Ethernet Circuit Board.

Schritt 17

Remove the screws near the Ethernet Port circuit board.

Schritt 18

Remove the screws for the second ethernet circuit board.

Schritt 19

Remove the ethernet ports.

Schritt 20

Remove the screws holding the hard drive casing in place.

Only the 2 bottom red circles have screws. The top two are open holes for screws that come in from the bottom.

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Only the two bottom screws are there. The two top screws are from the bottom and would have been removed to get the uppercasing off.

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Schritt 21

Find orange ribbon that is connected to the hard drive.
Find the holder of the ribbon and pop the ribbon off from it.

Schritt 22

Remove the casing and the orange ribbon.

Schritt 23

Locate the yellow power adapter.
Follow its wire to white logic board connector.
Pull out the wire from white logic board connector.

Schritt 24

Locate the screws on the fan filter casing.
Remove these screws.

Schritt 25

Remove the screw next to the yellow power adapter.
Lift out power adapter and fan filter.

Schritt 26

Remove screws on the motherboard.

Schritt 27

Remove the nut using a 5mm nut driver.
Using a magnetic screwdriver handle will also work as well.

Schritt 28

Remove the LCD display ribbon with a nylon spudger.
This is difficult to remove.

Schritt 29

Gently lift the motherboard from the laptop.
The motherboard will be attached to the network wireless chip, which is also attached to the base of the laptop.
Remove the chip by popping the tabs on the side.
Slide out the network card.
You are now free to take the motherboard away from the base.