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Lenovo IdeaPad U410 Disassembly

In this guide, I will explain how to disassemble the Lenovo IdeaPad U410 to remove the battery, hard drive, keyboard, palm rest, wireless card, RAM, heat sink, cooling fan, speaker, and motherboard.

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First, turn your laptop over. Remove the four rubber mats.
Remove the four rubber mats

Note: There is no screw under the lower left corner of the mat.
Rubber mats

Remove the three screws from the bottom cover.
Remove the three screws

Insert a pry bar under the bottom cover and pry open a small gap between the bottom cover and the palm rest.
Insert a pry bar under the bottom cover

Then insert a pry tool under the bottom cover and slide it to completely separate the cover from the laptop.
Remove the bottom cover

The bottom cover has been removed.
Bottom cover

After removing the bottom cover, you can get access to the battery, wireless card, memory, heat sink, and cooling fan.
Lenovo IdeaPad U410 Internal Structure

Disconnect the battery connector from the motherboard.
Disconnect the battery connector

The battery power cable has been removed.
Battery connector

Remove the three screws securing the battery and remove it.
Remove the battery

The Lenovo IdeaPad U410 comes with a 59Wh Li-polymer battery.
Lenovo IdeaPad U410 battery

Unplug the hard drive cable from the motherboard.
Unplug the hard drive cable

Remove the three screws securing the hard drive assembly.
Remove the hard drive

The hard drive assembly
Hard drive

If you want to replace or upgrade the hard drive, you need to remove four screws from the hard drive caddy.
Remove the HDD caddy

Remove the screw securing the SSD and remove it from the M.2 slot.
Remove the SSD

The laptop comes with a Samsung 32GB mSATA SSD.
SSD

Use your fingernails to gently separate the clips on both sides of the memory module, and it will pop out automatically. This laptop has two memory slots, allowing you to add another memory module to upgrade the RAM.
Remove the memory module

Memory module

Disconnect the two antenna cables.
Wireless card antennas

Remove the screw securing the wireless card.
Remove the wireless card

Wireless card
Wireless card

Disconnect the left speaker cable.
Speaker cable

Left speaker
Left speaker

Now, we will remove the USB board and lift the black holder with your fingers.
Speaker cable

Pull out the cable.
Cable

Remove the two screws securing the USB board.
Remove the USB board

Now, you can remove the USB board.
USB board

Disconnect the CMOS battery cable.
CMOS battery cable

Disconnect the cooling fan cable.
Cooling fan cable

Remove the screw securing the cooling fan. Loosen the six screws securing the heat sink. You can remove the heat sink and cooling fan.
Remove the cooling system

The heat sink and cooling fan
Cooling system

Remove the cooling fan from the cooling system. You can replace it with a new cooling fan.
CPU fan

Now you can access the Ivy Bridge and GT610M graphics chip.
GT610M graphics chip

Ivy Bridge

Three Samsung chips
Samsung chips

Disconnect the touchpad cable and power indicator cable.
Touchpad cable

Disconnect the LCD cable.
LCD cable

Disconnect the power button and the one-key restore module cable.
One-key restore module cable

Unplug the speaker and camera module connector from the motherboard.

Disconnect the power cable.
Power cable

Remove all screws securing the motherboard.
Remove all screws

Lenovo IdeaPad U410 motherboard
Motherboard

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6 Comments

  1. I have a U410 Touch, and the plastic that supports the hinges to the top lid or the screen broke. I want to change the case, so I bought a new lid and everything, but I have not been able to remove the screen from the broken case.

    1. Is it possible to remove the screen from the case? If it is, can you please tell me how I can avoid breaking it?

    2. If it is not possible to take out the screen, what should I do? Just wait until Lenovo gets the parts to fix it because they are taking forever, or just try my luck?

    1. You should remove the whole display assembly, then remove the screen, LCD cable, camera, and other parts from the old lid, and then install them on your new lid. I suggest going to the repair store.

    2. The same problem happened to me. Can you tell me where to find plastic parts and hinges to fix mine? Please!

  2. Very helpful guide. Thanks for posting this.
    I tried to replace the hard drive with an SSD, but now the laptop won’t power on, even after replacing the original hard drive. I disconnected the battery and then replaced the hard drive. No response to the power button. No activity. Any ideas?
    P.S. I have successfully replaced hard drives multiple times in the past without any problems.

    Thanks for any help you can provide.

  3. Whoever wrote that article, you are my hero; thank you so much! There is no YouTube video out there, and I was about to take out the keyboard (or try to do so).
    I hope I get it right; I really need to clean that fan!
    Thanks again!

  4. There are no visual indications about how to remove the integrated laptop keyboard. Can the author update this guide for its usefulness abroad?
    Thanks!

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