Asus Laptop
Asus UX42VS Disassembly
In this article, I will explain how to disassemble the Asus UX42VS to remove the battery, hard drive, SSD, keyboard, palm rest, wireless card, RAM, speakers, cooling fan, and motherboard.
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Remove the thirteen screws securing the bottom cover.
Insert a plastic pry tool between the bottom cover and palm rest. Slide the pry tool to detach the bottom cover from the laptop. Since there are no latches on the bottom cover, you can easily remove it.
Close-up of the bottom cover.
When the bottom case is removed, you can access the battery, hard drive, SSD, keyboard, palm rest, wireless card, RAM, speakers, cooling fan, and motherboard.
Uncover the transparent tape. It is used to fix the speaker cable.
Disconnect the battery power cable and remove the screws securing the battery. The battery can be removed.
The Asus UX42VS comes with a 45Wh Li-polymer battery. The Asus part number is C22-UX42.
Remove the four screws securing the hard drive. Slide the hard drive to the left to remove it.
The Asus UX42VS comes with a Hitachi 500GB hard drive. The hard drive is installed in an HDD caddy. If you need to upgrade the memory, you need to remove the HDD caddy and install it on the new hard drive.
Disconnect the HDD cable and remove the screws. You can remove the little board.
There is a SanDisk 24GB SSD on the little board.
The Asus UX42VS comes with a 2GB DDR3 RAM module. This laptop has only one memory slot. If you need to upgrade the memory, you will need to replace the existing memory module.
Card reader module
The laptop comes with an Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 wireless card, which also supports Bluetooth.
Asus UX42VS speaker modules
Cooling fan
Remove all screws securing the motherboard and disconnect all ribbon cables from it. Lift the motherboard from one side and remove it.
LED screen module
In addition to the memory modules installed in the memory slots, there are also memory chips soldered onto the motherboard.
USB 3.0 port
After removing the motherboard, you can access the keyboard and touchpad. At this point, you can replace the keyboard.
