How to disassemble your N43 seriesBy Skrilin5 for Notebook review forum

Bottom

- Remove all the screws

- Open the lid under the 2 normal screw to access to the HDD

Long screw

Normal screw

HDD Tray and body screws

HDD tray screw

Normal screw

- Remove all the screws

- Pull the HDD tray from left to right to remove it

RAM Slots

- Remove the screw

- Open the lid under to access to the RAM

CD TRAY

- Remove RAM

- Remove the screw

- Push the CD tray from right to left to remove it

Normal screw

CD reader close body screw

- Remove Body Screw

Body screw close to the battery

- Remove Body Screw

Remove the keyboard- Put a flat screwdriver in the

hole situated at the top of the keyboard to losen it

- There is a cable holding the keyboard to the motherboard.

- Pull the black clip to free the cable and remove the keyboard (see the next photo to see the black clip)

Upper body screw

Normal screw

- Remove all screws

- Pull up the touchpad clip to release the cable to remove the touchpad

Keyboard Clip

Touchpad Clip

Upper body removal

- Insert a plastic card among the yellow line and slide it all around the laptop to unclip all the upper body

Motherboard

- Remove all the screws

Normal screw

Short screw

- Disconnect cable

- Speakers- Display- Power supply- Bluetooth

Motherboard

- Pull gently the motherboard in order to disconnect it to other PCB still screwed to the body

Motherboard

- Pull gently the motherboard in order to disconnect it to other PCB still screwed to the body

Motherboard

Heatsink removal

- Remove all screws

- Disconnect fan cable

Heatsink screw

Cleaning

- Clean old thermal paste on heatsink

- Remove stickers on GPU and CPU

- Clean dies of CPU and GPU

Cleaning

New thermal paste

- Put the new thermal paste on dies (a small amount)

- Put the heatsink back and reassemble everything!

- (my sticker is still dirty because old thermal paste leaked everywhere )