Introducción
If your laptop is sluggish or you get error codes related to your RAM, it may be time to replace it or upgrade. This guide will walk you through the replacement of your Random Access Memory.
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Power down the laptop prior to beginning.
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Turn the laptop over with the battery closest to your body.
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Using a #0 Phillips screwdriver, remove a total of eighteen identical 8mm Phillips screws and set them aside.
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Locate the Wi-Fi card. It is just below the fan and has a white coaxial cable and a black coaxial cable attached to it.
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Grab the section of the white coaxial cable behind the brass connection using ESD safe blunt nose metal tweezers.
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Carefully lift the white and black coaxial cables up and forward to disconnect the them from the Wi-Fi card.
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Locate the CPU cooling fan in the upper left corner of the laptop.
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Using a Phillips #0 screwdriver, remove the two 4.5 mm screws that secure the fan to the case.
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Place the tips of the ESD safe pointed tweezers between the plug and the socket of the fan connection.
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Gently push the tweezers to the left to disconnect the fan plug.
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Move the fan connector and its wires to free them from the motherboard and the Wi-Fi card.
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Locate the hard drive and its carriage at the lower right corner of the laptop.
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Release the USB port ribbon cable by using the plastic opening tool to carefully lift up the black locking tab of the ZIF connector.
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Move the USB port ribbon cable to the side.
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Hold the hard drive carriage with your non-dominant hand along one side. Ensure one of the Phillips screws is visible.
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Using a Phillips #0 screwdriver, remove the 3 mm screw to release the side of the hard drive from the carriage.
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Repeat the previous bullet to remove the second 3 mm Phillips #0 screw.
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Place the tips of the ESD safe pointed tweezers between the plug and the socket of the speaker connection.
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Gently push left to disconnect the speaker plug.
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Carefully lift up on the right edge of the motherboard near the hard drive connector.
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With minimal force, pull the motherboard to the right freeing the ports on the left from the case.
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Put down the right side and allow the motherboard to rest in the case.
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Lift the left side of the motherboard up and turn it over so the ports are now facing right.
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
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Not considering that a laptop would ever come without access to the drive and the RAM, I bought upgrades for both in my Acer Aspire E5-571. In the days before they arrived I researched and was SHOCKED at what I would have to do to install them. So I bought the tools recommended from iFixit, printed out the guide pdf and got to work. It was tough, especially reconnecting the ribbons. But I took my time and got it done right. Took the better part of 3 hours. T'was a miracle my ham fists didn't break anything. Were it not for this guide and the iFixit tools (and a photo lupe and tweezers!) I could have never done this. I would've taken it to Geek Squad and probably been charged 200 bucks or more just for labor. Thanks Aaron and ifixit.
I followed the ram upgrade guide to upgrade to 16gb ram. After I turn on my laptop, nothing comes on the screen, not even the acer logo. The power led is on for some time and goes off. Is there a fix for this? Really need some help here.
