HP Pavilion Gaming 15-ak000 disassembly and SSD, RAM, HDD Upgrade Options

In this guide, I will explain how to disassemble the HP Pavilion 15-ak000 to remove the bottom cover, palm rest, wireless card, hard drive, SSD, RAM, and motherboard.

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Remove the twelve screws securing the bottom cover.

Unlock the latches on both sides of the battery and remove the battery.
The HP Pavilion 15-ak000 comes with a 48Wh Li-ion battery. Remove all screws in the battery bay.

There are two screws hidden under the rubber mat.

Remove the two LCD hinge covers. Under the cover, you will find a screw that needs to be removed.

Pull out the optical drive from the laptop.

Insert a pry tool under the bottom cover. There are clips on the bottom cover to secure it to the palm rest. Slide the pry tool to release all the clips, and then you can remove the bottom cover.

When the bottom case is removed, you can access the internal components, including the hard drive, RAM, SSD, wireless card, speakers, motherboard, heat sink, and cooling fan.

The heat sink was secured on the motherboard by seven screws.

The HP Pavilion 15-ak000 has two memory slots, but only one memory module is installed. You can add another memory module to upgrade the memory.

The laptop comes with a Samsung 8GB PC3L-12800S RAM module.

Remove the screw securing the SSD and take it away from its slot.

The laptop features a Samsung MZHLF128HCHP-000H1 CM871 128GB SSD. The HP part number is 824798-001.

Disconnect the hard drive cable from the motherboard.

This HP Pavilion 15-ak000 features a Western Digital 1TB hard drive. The HP part number is 726834-001.

This small circuit board integrates a card reader and an RJ45 port.

Remove the USB board.

Disconnect two wireless antenna cables and remove the screw securing the wireless card.

The laptop features an Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3165 wireless card, and its HP part number is 806723-001.

Remove the screws securing the fan, disconnect the fan ribbon cable from the motherboard, then remove the fan.

Remove all screws securing the motherboard and disconnect all ribbon cables.
Lift the motherboard from one side with your hand and wiggle it until it separates from the palm rest.

On the back of the palm rest, you can access the keyboard and touchpad. The keyboard is covered by a metal plate. To access the keyboard, you need to use a soldering iron to melt the solder anchors and remove the metal plate.

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