Lenovo Thinkpad T430u Disassembly

In this guide, I will explain how to disassemble the Lenovo ThinkPad T430u to remove the battery, SSD, hard drive, wireless card, RAM, keyboard, palm rest, screen module, cooling fan, and motherboard.

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Unlock the latch and lift the back cover.

After removing the back cover, you can access the battery, hard drive, and cooling fan.

Remove the five screws and disconnect the battery power cable from the motherboard. Lift the battery with your hand and remove it.

The Lenovo ThinkPad T430u comes with a 47Wh lithium polymer battery.

Remove the four screws securing the hard drive. Lift the black tape and slide it to the right to detach it from the laptop.

The Lenovo ThinkPad T430u comes with a WD 1TB hard drive. This hard drive is installed in an HDD caddy. If you need to replace the hard drive, you need ot remove it and install it in the new hard drive.

Remove the two screws securing the keyboard.

Flip the laptop over, insert a pry tool under the keyboard, and slowly lift the keyboard up.

Place the keyboard on the palm rest, lift the black block on the socket with your nails, and then pull out the keyboard ribbon cable.

The ThinkPad T430u keyboard has been removed.

When the keyboard is removed, you can access the RAM, SSD, and wireless card.

The ThinkPad T430u comes with two Samsung 4GB RAM modules. If you need to upgrade your memory, you will need to replace the existing memory modules.

Remove the screw securing the SSD.
Remove the screw securing the wireless card.
Disconnect two antenna cables.

Remove the two screws securing the palm rest.
Disconnect the touchpad cable, card reader cable, power switch cable, and fingerprint reader cable.

Flip over the laptop. Remove the six screws.

Remove the two hidden screws.

Insert a plastic pry tool under the palm rest, and slide the pry tool to unlock the clips on the palm rest until the palm rest is completely detached from the laptop.

The Lenovo ThinkPad T430u palm rest was removed.

In the next step, we will remove the screen module to take out the motherboard.

Remove the five screws securing the LCD hinge.

Disconnect the LCD cable from the motherboard.

The ThinkPad T430u screen assembly has been removed.

Remove the eight screws securing the heat sink and cooling fan. Disconnect the cooling fan cable.

Cooling system

Motherboard