Asus Laptop
Asus S46C Disassembly and HDD, RAM Upgrade Options
In this guide, I will explain how to disassemble the Asus S46C to remove the RAM, hard drive, wireless card, keyboard, heat sink, cooling fan, and motherboard.
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Remove the two screws securing the service cover and remove the cover.
Under the cover, you can access the hard drive and RAM.
Remove the screws securing the hard drive module. Lift the black tape and remove the hard drive module.
Remove the screw and pull out the optical drive.
Insert a pry tool between the bottom cover and the palm rest, and slide the pry tool to separate the bottom cover from the palm rest.
There are some clips on the bottom cover that secure it to the palm rest. You need to unlock all the clips to remove the bottom cover, which may take some time.
Disconnect the speaker cable from the motherboard. The bottom cover can be removed.
When the bottom cover is removed, you can access the RAM, wireless card, SSD, heat sink, and cooling fan.
Asus S46c LCD hinge
Asus S46c heat sink
The Asus S46c has two memory slots, but only one memory module is installed. You can add another memory module to upgrade the memory. It comes with a 4GB Samsung RAM module.
Asus S46c cooling fan
Ports
Asus S46c USB board
M.2 SSD and wireless card
Wireless card
I want to buy a used S46C from a friend, but a 24GB SSD is useless for me. Is the SSD a PCIe mini card device? Can I replace it with another of a bigger capacity if I find one? I don’t really have access to open the laptop case. They don’t want to screw the warranty, so I can’t see if another device fits or anything. What should I look for in the range of 60-120GB? Thanks in advance!
It is a half-size mSATA port. You can replace it with a bigger SSD.
Can I replace the SATA hard disk with another SSD and keep the 24GB SSD card?
Yes!
Thanks for the reply, I ended up buying the laptop, but instead of replacing the half mSATA for a bigger one, I replaced the SATA 2.5HDD for a 2.5SSD (much easier to find for me) and used a second HDD caddyto put the 500GB HDD in the DVD port, now I use the DVD drive as an external USB DVD drive, the mSATA SSD is there but I don’t really use it for anything, I don’t regret anything tough, everything works great.
Hey, how can I replace the CMOS battery? I can’t seem to find it. I need to replace it because my laptop’s timezone keeps changing constantly.
I have a similar problem because my Asus S46C runs only the BIOS. People at the forum suggest that it may be necessary to replace the CMOS battery. Where can I find it?