MSI GE60 Disassembly

In this guide, I will explain how to disassemble the MSI GE60. I will remove the RAM, DVD drive, keyboard, palm rest, heat sink, cooling fan, and motherboard.

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Turn off the laptop, unlock the battery switch, and remove the battery.

Remove the four screws securing the service cover. Insert a plastic pry tool near the battery compartment under the service cover, pry up, and remove the service cover.

Under the cover, you can access the hard drive, RAM, wireless card, spare mSATA port, heat sink, and cooling fan.

Use your nails to separate the clips on both sides, and the memory module will pop out automatically.

Remove the two screws securing the hard drive.

Lift the black strap with your hand and slide the hard drive module in the direction of the arrow to remove the hard drive.

Remove the three screws securing the CPU fan and disconnect the cooling fan cable from the motherboard.

Disconnect the two cables.

Remove the eight screws securing the heat sink and remove the heat sink.

Remove the screw and pull out the DVD drive.

Remove all screws securing the bottom case. Disconnect the two cables from the motherboard.

Remove the three screws in the DVD drive bay.

Remove the two screws in the battery bay.

Flip the laptop over, use a flat-head screwdriver to unlock the five latches at the top of the keyboard, lift the keyboard, and flip it over to place it on the palm rest.

Use your nails to unlock the two black blocks on the base, then pull out the keyboard ribbon cable.

There is only one wide ribbon cable on the back of the keyboard, and there is no backlight module, indicating that this keyboard does not have backlighting.

Remove the two screws securing the palm rest.

Disconnect the touchpad cable from the motherboard.

Disconnect this cable.

Insert a plastic pry tool near the screen hinge between the bottom cover and the palm rest. There are many clips on the palm rest to secure it to the bottom cover. All clips must be unlocked to remove the palm rest.

Remove the seven screws securing the motherboard.

Lift the motherboard from one side with your hand and wiggle it until it completely separates from the bottom cover.

Now the only things left on the bottom cover are the speaker and the USB board.

MSI GE60 speaker