Disassembling the Samsung Laptop Ultrabook NP530U3B

Written By: Jose Gustavo Abreu Murta
  • Comments: 32
Disassembling the Samsung Laptop Ultrabook NP530U3B

Difficulty

Moderate

Steps

17

Time Required

30 minutes

Introduction

This guide is a complete, all-around guide to disassembling this model laptop. Use this guide to replace any of the parts in the laptop. Stop when you get to the part you want to replace and simply follow the guide backwards from where you stopped to reassemble your device.

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    • Remove the 8 small screws.

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    • Remove the other 6 screws.

    • Remove the hard disk and the RAM slots.

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    • This is the hard disk - Hitachi 500 GB

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    • Ensure that the hard disk has been removed. Carefully detach the bottom cover.

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    • Once the bottom cover is removed, your device should look like this.

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    • Remove the 4 screws to detach the battery.

    • Remove all of the sticky tape.

    • Carefully disconnect the small power connector by using a tool to push the connector out through the small gap in the middle of the connector.

    • The connector won't come out all the way, because the battery pack is in its way.

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    • This is the Samsung 7.4V 45Wh battery.

    • Ensure that the battery is removed before continuing.

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    • When the battery is removed, this is how it will look.

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    • Remove the processor fan.

    • There are 2 screws holding it in place. Loosen and remove them.

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    • This is the processor fan.

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    • Remove the processor heat sink.

    • 3 screws hold this part in place. Loosen and remove them.

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    • Disconnect the antenna cables from the WiFi card.

    • Remove the screw.

    • Be sure to match the colors when reattaching the cables.

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    • Remove the screw.

    • Lift the latch upwards to loosen the cable.

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    • Remove the screw.

    How to exactly unscrew this screw? It doesn’t even move at all!

    Any hint? Ordinary screwdriver works with all screws except from those two with orange arrows :(

    Michał Kucharski -

    Would anyone knows where is the BIOS chip located for NP530U3B ? it would be really helpful.

    rokonrashed -

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    • Remove the screw.

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    • To remove the Motherboard, carefully disconnect the cables.

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    • This is the Motherboard - there is a front and rear view.

Conclusion

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

Author

Jose Gustavo Abreu Murta

Member since: 07/07/10

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30 comments

Hello,

Do you know where can i reset the Bios CMOS in that motherboard?

I think there are people who wants to know becose system upgrade is leading to bios ACPI Error.

Thanks for your help

Luis Orland -

No, I do not know where is a reset pin of BIOS.

Try to disconnect NVRAM battery.

Wait 15 minutes and reconnect again.

Jose Gustavo Abreu Murta -

To reset BIOS this NP530U3, only disconnect all power supply (MAIN battery, CMOS battery and power source). And hold press POWER button for 1 min.

warmdk -

I try it but don't work, do you know another way to do this

manhique -

Hello,

I have seen many screens with model number LTN140AT21-XXX for this laptop. My laptop NP530u4b has a screen LTN140AT21-802. I would like to know if I can use a LTN140AT21-002 screen, or if only is good a screen with number LTN140AT21-8.

thanks for your help.

alex -

Alex, I dont Know if you can use diferent Part Number. It seems like diferent versions of Part Numbers.

But I suggest you to use same Part Number.

Jose Gustavo Abreu Murta -

Do you know where is the 24gb SSD? Thanks

Luiz Gustavo Pereira -

SSD disk is together with Hard disk (inside).

Jose Gustavo Abreu Murta -

SSD is a chip soldered onto the mainboard, see this picture: [|https://www.elvikom.pl/obrazki/_f/f_0036...]

Lucas -

My notebook gives the power but doesn't give me display can anyone help me with this problem?

owaisahmed93 -

Same problem of mine. Samsung service tell me that mother board is failled. And is very expensive to replace mother board.

Buy another notebook.

Jose Gustavo Abreu Murta -

Probably the LCD panel failed, or the LCD cable. Try connecting a VGA cable or HDMI to an external monitor, boot your computer, wait until Windows starts, and see if there's anything on the external monitor. If you can see your Windows session, it means the motherboard is fine, the LCD needs to be replaced. Those are easy to find and cheap on eBay

Foo Bar -

if someone is still out there with this 3 year old laptop, could a daring soul try swapping the i5 board (np530u3c) with the a6 or a4 one(np535u3c)?

i am quite confident that upgrading my a4 to an i5 will work.

The external ports are the same, the internal connectors are the same; the speakers, too.

The only thing that might give trouble putting an np530 motherboard in an np535 laptop would be ever so slightly different lcd model and maybe a different wifi adapter( i heard that it was intel centrino for np530u3c and my np535u3c has qualcomm atheros).

the rest is quite identical, unless the i5 version uses synaptics touchpad, which might not work on my elan. Even so, samsung's drivers for the %#*@ thing even have two separate folders for the two touchpad types, so to !&&* with it.

I just want to know if my 130$ worth of broke student money will do anything on it.

Phil's monkey cat -

Hi - funny to see this thread active just as i am looking at it. Sorry to hijack your serious question with a stupid newbie one but could you tell me if it is possible to replace the 24gb SSD? the SSD drive has failed but if possible i would prefer not to replace the whole main hard drive. Having taken the HDD out though i cannot see where the SSD is?

Alex Hemingway -

i think u have a hybrid drive. google is your friend search it

donkervoortjes -

I've been searching everwhere for the answer to the ssd/hdd hybrid question. I have had this question for a long time and no one knows the answer! I couldnt find the ssd or the ram anywhere. I have tried the hdd in another laptop but no sign of the ssd! Finally finding this page I have the solution! Check the picture of the back of the motherboard... there is the onboard ram and also the onboard ssd!!! Thank you very much for putting my mind at rest!

Gazze -

Hi everyone. My hinge broke and with it two cables. A white one and a black one. They both were wrapped together in a thick isolating cables. I thought that it might have been my wifi antenna, but it is still werking. Same as all the other functions. Could anybody tell me what those cables were for? And if i should try to fix it.

Jochem Labots -

those just boost your wifi receiving range.

Vic Anthony Leriorato -

SSD: if you look at the underside of the motherboard (not the side you can see when you remove the back panel, but the one facing the keyboard), you will see a big Sandisk chip containing the 24Gb SSD. Also the motherboard has 4GB of Ram, plus the DDR3 card

Foo Bar -

i forget the bios password; so i remove coin battery connection and reconnect but password not remove. please help me.

Bhagawat -

Question about replacing AMD A6 -motherboard with Intel -motherboard: it can be done. I just replaced my A6-4455M with i3-3217U, and everything works great. If you're running Windows, you might want to reinstall, but since I run Linux on mine, everything worked when I booted it up.

Jarno Se -

hello, do you know how can i replace the termic paste os this laptop? thank you so much!!

juancar -

I can change the my keyboard?

Murilo Gomes -

I can change only my keyboard? Thanks

Murilo Gomes -

hello i want too buy from you the step3 pieses,i am from roumania,how can i doo this

lucimodureanu -

hello,i whant too buy from you the step 3 pieses,haw can i doo this?i am from roumania

lucimodureanu -

i did all that and now my charging lights wont come and also my touchpad or mouse isnt working

Alex gateri -

hello… i opened my samsung ultrabook the same way but now the lights that show if the laptop is on isnt working and also my touchpad

Alex gateri -

Would anyone knows where is the BIOS chip located for NP530U3B ? it would be really helpful.

rokonrashed -

Boa tarde eu gostava de saber se a pilha da bios desse modelo samsung np 530 quando suspeito que esta vazia porque meu note ja nao segura a hora e a data ela é substituida ou devemos apenas desconectar o cabo e voltar a ligar eu nao quero reset quero apenas que salve a data e a hora mas penso que a pilha deve estar gasta obrigado.

paulo-jose -