Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 Motherboard Replacement

ID: 2476

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Steps:

1. Locate the bay door for the battery on the left side of the laptop.

2. Slide the latch to the right and then down to unlock it.
3. Pull out the battery.

4. Locate the door for the hard drive on the right side of the laptop

5. Push and slide the latch up to open the hard drive door.
6. Pull out the hard drive.

7. Flip the device upside down with the handle facing away from you.
8. Open the optical drive bay by sliding its latch to the right.
9. Locate optical drive release mechanism on the bottom of the laptop.

10. Slide the latch cover to the right.

11. Push the exposed switch to the left to eject the optical drive.

12. Begin by turning the laptop upside down with the handle towards you.
13. Use a Phillips size 0 screwdriver to remove the 4 screws holding down the ram cover.

14. Remove the panel and set it aside.
15. Use a Phillips size 0 screwdriver to remove these 8 small screws.

16. Use a Phillips size 1 screwdriver to remove the remaining 8 screws.

17. Use a plastic opening tool to release, but NOT remove, the back cover because it is sealed with adhesive.

18. Be careful when lifting the cover as you may damage some connections.
19. Slowly lift the cover so that you can disconnect the red and white wires connecting the speaker to the sound card.

20. Now the back cover should be off and you can access the inside of the casing.

21. Remove the black and white wires attached to the wireless card by simply pulling up.

22. Peel back the black cover to expose the clips holding in the wireless card.

23. Using a pair of plastic opening tools, push the two metal tabs away from the card.

24. The wireless card should now easily disengage from the motherboard.
25. Pull the card horizontally away from you to remove it from its housing.

26. Unplug 3 cables
27. Lift up on brown tab to release cable
28. Pull cable up and out

29. Remove 2 long screws indicated with red circles
30. Remove the remaining screws indicated in blue

31. On the back of the unit, unscrew the three screws surrounding the serial port.

32. Lift the motherboard as shown, pull towards you and then up.
33. Do not yet try to fully remove the motherboard or you may destroy the connections

34. Detach the white ribbon cable, the white cluster connector, and the ribbon cable right next to the cluster

35. Remove the board.