Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 11e Disassembly

In this guide, I will explain how to disassemble the Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 11e to remove the SSD, keyboard, palm rest, RAM, wireless card, bottom case, cooling fan, and motherboard.

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• • Remove the six screws securing the service cover

• • Insert a pry tool under the service cover, pry it up, and remove the service cover.

• • Under the cover, you can get access to the battery, SSD, RAM, and wireless card.

• • Remove the four screws securing the battery and disconnect the battery power cable from the motherboard.

• • The Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 11e comes with a 34Wh Li-Polymer battery. The Lenovo part numbers are 45N1750 and 45N1751.

• Use your nails to separate the clips on both sides of the memory module, and the memory module will pop out automatically.
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• The laptop comes with a 4GB Samsung memory module. If you need to upgrade your memory, you will need to replace the existing memory module.
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• • Remove the screw securing the SSD module. Lift the black tape and slide it to the right to disconnect it from the motherboard.

• • The laptop comes with a 128GB 2.5-inch SSD. This laptop is installed on an HDD caddy. To upgrade to an SSD, you need to remove the HDD caddy and install it on the new SSD.

• • Disconnect the two antennas and remove the screws securing the wireless card.

• • Wireless card

• • Remove all screws.

• • Turn over the laptop. Lift the keyboard and disconnect the keyboard cable.

• • The keyboard has been removed.

• • Remove the four screws securing the palm rest and disconnect the three cables.
  • Insert a plastic pry tool beneath the palm rest. Slide the pry tool to completely detach the palm rest from the laptop.

• On the back of the palm rest, there is also a touchpad and two small circuit boards.
  

• • Remove the screws securing the motherboard and disconnect all cables. You can remove the motherboard.

• • Heat sink and cooling fan

• • Motherboard

Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 11e internal parts