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How to Upgrade, Repair, Disassemble a Lenovo (former IBM) Laptop or Notebook

How to Upgrade, Repair, Disassemble a Lenovo (former IBM) Laptop or Notebook

Do you want to repair your Lenovo (IBM) laptop or notebook? Here is a collection of free take apart instructions, disassembly pictures or dismantling videos, upgrade and repair manuals, as well as do-it-yourself (DIY) tips and tricks for Lenovo (IBM) laptops and notebooks. If you have written a repairing guide yourself (or if you know of a report not linked here), please submit a new entry.

IBM Palm Top PC110Disassembly picture gallery (in Japanese).
IBM ThinkPad (misc. models)Investigation and repairing of a non-charging Li-Ion battery (in German).
IBM ThinkPad (misc. models)How to build your own UltraBay drive. Survey of UltraBay 2000 drives (CD/DVD) and compatible alternative drives.
IBM L40SX (8543)Upgrading of RAM and HDD (in German).
IBM PS/2 L40SXHard disk removal and reinstallation.
IBM L40SX, ThinkPad 710T, 350Detailed soldering instructions to achieve a memory upgrade.
IBM PC110Dissection pictures, RAM upgrade (in Japanese).
IBM ThinkPad 240Conversion of a laptop without display and no keyboard into a file server (in German).
IBM ThinkPad 240How to repair batteries.
IBM ThinkPad 240, 310, 315D/ED, 365X, 380E/ED, 380XD, 535, 535E, 560/E/X/Z, 600, 760/XD/XLOverclocking HOWTOs and disassembly pictures (in Japanese).
IBM ThinkPad 365XDMaking a pictureframe from an old broken laptop.
IBM ThinkPad 370CThe Swedish Chef: How an old laptop gets a second chance in life as a picture frame.
IBM ThinkPad 380How to create a digital picture frame.
IBM ThinkPad 390LCD Replacement Instructions.
IBM ThinkPad 390A LCD replacement tutorial.
IBM ThinkPadExplains how to built a digital picture frame using Windows CE 4.2 and an old laptop.
IBM ThinkPadExplains how to built a digital picture frame using Windows CE 4.2 and an old laptop (in French).
IBM ThinkPad (unknown model)DIY digital picture frame runs Windows CE.
IBM ThinkPad 560Making an electronic picture frame.
IBM ThinkPad 560How to install a 3,5'' 15GB IBM harddisk and a 8x CD-ROM drive inside.
IBM ThinkPad 560Repairing a design flaw of the keyboard.
IBM ThinkPad 560/560ECase Mod: Digital Picture Frame. A complete and illustrated assembly guide.
IBM ThinkPad 560XProject Bling: How to take some glue and a bit of patience to make digital picture frame.
IBM ThinkPad 600Complete disassembly and upgrade instructions with pictures (in German).
IBM ThinkPad 600Battery Page.
IBM ThinkPad 600Battery problem.
IBM ThinkPad 600EWhat's inside the laptop, disassembly pictures.
IBM ThinkPad 600ELCD CCFL Replacement.
IBM ThinkPad 600ELightPad: Turning the display from a broken laptop into a light box.
IBM ThinkPad 600EHow to power an external microphone. BIOS battery replacement instructions with pictures.
IBM ThinkPad 700Take apart instructions (in German).
IBM ThinkPad 701 (ButterFly)Laptop CPU Upgrades: some remarks about upgrading 486 CPUs.
IBM ThinkPad 701c (ButterFly)How to repair, disassemble, take apart the laptop.
IBM ThinkPad 701CS, X20Mirage-Coloring: how to airbrush the lid in red, an illustrated guide (in Korean).
IBM ThinkPad 760XDRepairing some accessories (in German).
IBM ThinkPad 770Moonlight Illumination, Modifying with LEDs.
IBM ThinkPad 770DaliPC: an old laptop being transformed into an "electronic painting". Booting with no keyboard hack.
IBM ThinkPad 770ZAn illustrated explanation of the key mechanism, how to remove the spring, ring and frame of a keyboard key.
IBM ThinkPad 770ZHow to extend the RAM to 512MB.
IBM ThinkPad A21pSolar Powered Wireless Laptop Web Server.
IBM ThinkPad A31Adding internal WiFi by featuring a DELL TrueMobile miniPCI 1400 card.
IBM ThinkPad i1400The making of a digital picture frame.
IBM ThinkPad i1400HOW-TO: Laptop resurrection and upgrade, battery revival, membrane keyboard repairs, trackpoint transplant, adding USB ports and wireless LAN.
IBM ThinkPad R31Explanation how to re-flash the BIOS after changing the miniPCI card.
IBM ThinkPad R40Complete disassembly instructions.
IBM ThinkPad R50pInvestigation of a broken fan behaviour (in German).
IBM ThinkPad T20, T21, T22Keyboard replacement instructions.
IBM ThinkPad T21Commented photo manual about upgrading an UltraBay 2000 drive (DVD-ROM Hitachi GD-S200 -> DVD+-RW NEC ND-6650A (in Czech).
IBM ThinkPad T22 [archived link]Take apart instructions to get the BIOS reflashed.
IBM ThinkPad T23Picture gallery about an installation of an internal WLAN miniPCI card and antennas (in German).
IBM ThinkPad T23Wireless internal antenna installation instructions.
IBM ThinkPad T30LCD replacement guide.
IBM ThinkPad T40Instructions how to replace the LCD screen.
IBM ThinkPad T40pAdding a miniPCI WLAN card.
IBM ThinkPad T41Some pictures from the inside
IBM ThinkPad T43pHow to reduce fan noise: a homemade cooling system (not very professional but it works) using arctic silver and an aluminium plate for the northbridge, which bounds both chipsets to the copper cooling system by using aluminium sheets (like for cooking).
IBM ThinkPad T43pA cooling system: this notebook has a real problem with the fan noise and cooling in general. The fan needs to be always on as the cooling system is not very sophisticated. Here is a description of the cooling system improvements using some small cooper sheets (0.7mm thick).
IBM ThinkPad X30How to build a miniPCI WLAN card into the laptop (in German).
IBM ThinkPad X20How to replace the original manufacturer logo which is attached to the lid (in Korean).
IBM ThinkPad X20An illustrated Track-Point(tm) disassembly (in Korean).
IBM ThinkPad X20How to fix a broken PCMCIA slot cover, an illustrated guide (in Korean).
IBM ThinkPad X20/X21Power supply cable grounding (earthing) (in Korean).
IBM ThinkPad X31Ripping apart pictures showing how to get to the EEPROM.
IBM ThinkPad X31A nice paintjob tutorial.
IBM ThinkPad X31How to fix a broken lid latch, an illustrated guide (in Korean).
IBM ThinkPad X31Some pictures of the innards.
IBM ThinkPad X31How to clean a laptop thoroughly, an illustrated step-by-step explanation (in Korean).
IBM ThinkPad X40Integrated Intel Centrino 802.11b wireless ethernet replaced with a Lucent wavelan miniPCI card.
IBM ThinkPad N.N.Make a stencil, and custom spray paint your laptop.
IBM ThinkPad N.N.How to clean the Track-Point(tm) cap (in Korean).
IBM ThinkPad N.N.How to replace the original IBM manufacturer logo at the laptop lid (in Korean).

Manufacturer Information

Hardware Maintenance Manual, User Guide, Service Manual

IBM (Lenovo) itself offers an official Hardware Maintenance Manual (HMM) index for current and older ThinkPad systems. The Hardware Maintenance Manuals (HMM) contains information regarding hardware installation and removal; diagnostics and troubleshooting; hardware interfaces; and field replacement unit (FRU) service part numbers. Attention: IBM (Lenovo) doesn't provide manuals for every model, e.g. except the documentation for the ThinkPad 770 all the other manuals for the 7xx series are missing. IBM has placed some of them here instead. There are also hardware removal and installation movies available, I don't have a generic link yet, but here is an example for the ThinkPad A20m/p, A21m/p, A22m/p.


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