Asus M50Sv Disassemble Guide

This disassemble guide is for the Asus M50 series notebook.

NOTE: Remember to unplug your power cord, remove your battery and ground yourself before attempting to disassemble anything. I am not responsible for any damages you do to your notebook. This guide is simply for references only

OVERVIEW




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MEMORY (RAM)

Unscrew the 5 screw (shown in yellow) and remove the back panel.



Spread the two clips on each side of the memory module until it pops out and remove.



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HARD DRIVE

Unscrew the 2 screw (shown in blue) and remove the hard drive panel.



Unscrew 2 more screw near the bottom (shown in blue) and pull the black plastic strap to release.



Once the unit is removed, there are 4 more screws on each corner you have to remove to separate the hard drive from the casing. This step is pretty self explanatory once you see it.
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KEYBOARD

Unscrew the keyboard screw (shown in red) and remove black panel (yellow screws)



Remove the one screw next to the electrical tape (the left most and shown in green)



Turn your notebook over and using a small screwdriver, push the 4 clips upwards



Be careful when removing the keyboard as it's still connected to the motherboard. To release the cable from the motherboard, simply pull the white plastic locking arm outwards and pull the cable to disconnect the cable connector







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LCD SCREEN

Remove the 4 rubber screw-covers located on the corners of the screen bezel and remove the screws. (You can leave the 2 rubber covers on the immediate left and right of the webcam)





Use your fingernails to pry open the screen bezel (You will have to be a little forceful during this step. I found it easiest to start prying near the hinges and work your way upwards. The hinge cover (shown below may or may not come off during this stage, but either way, it doesn't matter.





To remove the LCD panel, unscrew the 8 screw surrounding the panel and disconnect the inverter shown below.



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OPTICAL DRIVE

Remove the 2 screw (shown in orange)



Use your fingernails to pull the optical drive out the bay from the edge.

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KEYBOARD BEZEL

You will need to remove all the screws on the underside of the notebook as well as the keyboard, hard drive and optical drive (Note that there are 3 screws in the battery compartment that also need to be removed.




On the left side of the notebook (where the optical drive was), there are 3 more screws you need to remove (shown in green).



Near the fan, remove the 3 screws (shown in green)



Behind the keyboard, there are 2 more screws that need to be removes (shown in red)



Disconnect any cables from the motherboard that are visible (make sure you loosen the locking arms before pulling on any cables) and start prying open the keyboard bezel starting from the front corners. Once it's removed, your notebook (or what's left of it) will look like the image below



The image below shows the underside of the keyboard bezel. Both speakers are screwed onto the bezel and can be removed/replaced. The bezel itself has 4 cables that connect to the motherboard (1 for speakers, 1 for the power button & hotkeys, 1 for the touchpad and 1 for the mouse buttons/status lights).



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CPU/GPU

NOTE: Removing these will void your warranty.

And because of that, I did not attempt to remove these 2 components. However, removing them looks fairly straight forward.

Unscrew the CPU and chipset frame (shown in red) and disconnect the power supply to the fan (shown in orange)



Gently remove the heat sink/cooling system (note: there usually is an extra screw or two holding down the fan unit, but I couldn't find them... unscrew those if you see any).
Remove the screw near the purple frame of the CPU (shown in green) to unfasten the CPU.



For the GPU, remove the 2 screws (shown in red) to separate the heat sink. Remove another 2 screws (shown in blue) to unfasten the GPU from the motherboard.


You may have to lift and tilt the GPU at an angle before removing.

 

Bookmarked!
Thanks.

 

Ditto!

Exactly what I needed as an Intro to a new Asus lappy, thanks

 

Added to info booth, thanks.

 

Many thanks, this will come in handy for my new laptop!

 

Man, I'm so making a permanent .mht file outten this link...

Thanks heaps, emporiumboutique. Now to get forceful with my spanking brand new LCD-screen... (just kidding)

 

You're welcome

 

I was wondering, if I just want to take out the keyboard I should only have remove the screw marked keyboard in the first pic and pop out the keyboard but when I do there is another screw on the other side holding it down still, where is that screw located?
TIA!

 

The other screw is on the second picture. You'll have to remove the back cover to access that screw. It's the screw below the fan on the left.

 

So... Is the hd3650 mxmII or not?

 

I love notebook pronz, thanks emporium.

 

Notebook pronz ROFL

 

M50SV is the GeForce 9500M GS 512MB DDR2, M50SA has the ATI HD3650.

Nice disassembly guide emporium.

 

I took out the keyboard and I noticed a ribbon connector without a ribbon in it, any idea what that is? (See attached pics)

 

I think that's for connecting the sim card slot, but the US M50 models don't come with it, therefore it's empty.

 

i got the same notebook but i want to know how to remove the fan to clean it from dust please
thanks

 

Look closely at the pictures, it's using ASUS' proprietary 'flipped' MXM interface and does not follow the standard MXM heatsink mounting locations.

 

I've got the M50Vm. Where is the network card located? Can it be replaced with a different one?

 

have you ever figured out how to clean the fan???

 

Hi,

First of all nice guide!

Now my questions, if someone knows:
I wanna replace my lappie LCD and dunno what to buy, messing around on google didn't helped me to get to a straight answer, so:
What connectors has this display?
Mine is AUO B154PW02 V2, and the backlight seems to die(lose almost 25% of brightness)...so instead going on warranty and replace it with same buggy display(didnt like it from start) i wanna put in a new/better display, maybe with greater resolution and LED technology.
Any advice?

Now second problem, my DVD drive seems also to be tired... it likes only some kinds on dvd's and since I got tired of it I wanna change it with a blueray one, but the problem is those i can found are all on SATA connection and not on IDE as mine, is there any SATA connector avail(I dont think an IDE2SATA adaptor will fit in place) or any trick to connect it?

That one is a 3G modem? Can be added separate? If yes from where I can buy one? I use a 3G USB modem and I will be more then happy to get rid of it and put my sim card internal...

Thanks!

Edit

Fixed ON RMA, I got a display that is on M50Vm.

 

Could you please post the images back up? I'm trying to take apart my M51 and I believe it's fairly similar, thanks!

 

The images were never deleted. I'm seeing them just fine on my end.

 

Really? I've tried two different computers with IE/Firefox, still don't see pictures?

 

Try clearing your browser's cookies/cache and try again.

 

Im on a linux OS now, I see them, thnks!

 

Hi.
I would like to ask if is possible to open the webcam,
I mean how to disassemble it and then assemble back without harming it.

 

Hey David,

I have a M50VN that I need to fiddle with as the keyboard is not securely attached to the top panel it snaps everytime I press firmly on the top panel.

I'm thinking of removing both the keyboard and the top panel and was wondering what screws I need to unscrew in order to remove the latter.

For top panel I refer to the black section with the speakers and the special buttons and with written ansec lantec.

Thanks for your help!
Lu

 

W00tlet: I guess once you got the LCD disassembled according to the guide, the webcam shouldn't be too difficult to remove, but I don't know.

luckyluca: maybe the "keyboard bezel" part addresses your question?

 

luckyly I didn't need to remove the bezel, I managed to put the keyboard back into position by unscrewing moving it and re-screwing it back

Cheers
L

 

Hi

Where is the CMOS battery on this motherboard? And how do I replace it?

Cheers!

 

The CMOS battery is located underneath the motherboard. You'd need to take the motherboard out and flip it around to gain access to it.

 

My left screen hinge is kind of loose, I was wondering if there is a way to access the screw located on the back (near the dc connector) without taking apart half the laptop?

TIA

Edit: Fixed it, thanks anyways

 

What a great forum this is - tons of quality info here.

I'd like to beg for some specific help. : )

I am looking for more info and detail on how to safely disassemble and clean the cooling fan for the ASUS M50V (M50VM).

The photos and info in this thread is very helpful as a starting point...

Does anyone have actual experience with the full process?

 

I had this model before.
As far as I remember the fan's screws were not accessible.
One will need to remove the heatsink to reach the screws. I cleaned the fan on mine a couple of time using pressure air. So I did not need to remove the heatsink.

When removing the heatsink the "Warranty Void" sticker will break. This is not a good idea if you still have warranty becuase you will lose it after the sticker is broken.

 

Well I opened up the case and just cleaned the fan and vent as best I could and the machine is running much much cooler. I did not remove the fan/heat sink assembly, and to be honest doing so scares me. Recently the NB Probe alerter would sometimes notify of a "fatal" temp alert, and the case was really feeling much hotter than it should. But all is back to normal now. : )

 

Just a small update, this guide has been really useful to me and I recently replaced the cooling system on this lappy as I was having some heating issues, and warrenty just ran out.. I replaced the stock heating goop with MX-2, system is much more stable and the stock grey crap had turned into a rock. I thought I would post the pics to complete this dissasemby guide. Note that the Fan assembly is a seperate piece from the GPU heatsink, I didn't realize it until I popped it off. The Guide above is absolutely correct about removing the fan and heat sink.





The Northbridge I believe (to the left of the CPU) had a crap thermal pad, as does the GPU memory. But with a little bending of the heat pipe (very gently) I got it to sit a little closer to the northbridge, and I have succesfully replaced the north-bridge thermal pad with MX-2 thermal paste, as well as the CPU (If it isn't the NB chipset my bad).

I was planning on replacing the GPU memory heat pads with copper, but I dont have the copper and heatsink glue to do it. I found an old desktop Memory cooler at the local PC shop and just took the new thermal tape out of it to replace the old thermal tape on the memory. (Its the blue squares on the edge)

Also, the Fan is kinna interesting when you get it out, its pretty easy to clean the fan and bushing it spins on as the only thing that holds the fan blade on is the magnet, just pulls right off once you remove the 3 screws that hold it into the heat-sink. (sorry no pic)

 

I love this guide, thanks so much for it

The optical drive on my M50SV died... I'm kinda disappointed since it was a BluRay reader + DVD burner. Oh well...
Is there any way I can put an extra SATA hard drive in its place? I was thinkin' maybe replacing the main HDD with an SSD, and the original HDD can go where the optical drive used to be.

 

Thanks a lot for this guide

 

Some time ago I got a sound of some bouncing stuff inside my Asus M70Vm. At some moment it stalled the fan with a scary sound. So I had to open notebook's body, and I found a metal clip fallen out of its place.

I've pointed same clips on topic-starter's photo by arrows: http://stashbox.org/1074506/nb_photo.jpg.
Also here is a photo made by me:

I'm curious what are these things for? And I'm anxious if they could short-circuit something. They are metallic and they hang by a thread!