Compaq Presario v2000 mother board Replacement

Start by removing the battery

Loosen the two screws of the hard drive cover

Remove the cover, then pull straight up on the pull tab to remove the hard drive

Loosen the two screws on the ram cover and remove

Loosen the one screw on the wireless card cover and remove

Remove 16 bottom cover screws (dark coloured 6mm screws)

Remove 5 screws from inside the battery bay (silver coloured 4mm screws)

Using a small flat blade screwdriver pop off the wireless aerial connectors from the wireless card

Unroute the cables from the bottom of the case

Slide out the dvd drive

Flip the laptop over and open the display to start removing the keyboard

Slide a small flat blade screwdriver between the insert and delete keys and lever the button board cover off

Remove the four keyboard screws (dark coloured 4mm screws)

Lift up the keyboard, but beware of the cable underneath still to be removed

Loosen the socket for the keyboard cable and remove the keyboard

Remove the display cable connector by lifting it straight up

Un-route the wireless aerial cables from the top cover

Remove the four display screws (dark coloured 5mm screws). Lift the display up and off

Use a flat blade screwdriver to loosen the touchpad cable connecter

Flip the laptop over and grip the bottom case where the dvd drive used to be

Lift off the bottom case

Remove two screws from the s-video/usb board (silver coloured 4mm screws)

Lift the board from the right hand side

Remove the speaker cable and lift out the speaker module

Use a flat blade screw driver to loosen the button board connecter

Push the two wireless card arms outwards to remove the wireless card

Remove the four screws holding the mother board in place (silver coloured 4mm screws)

Remove the left side of the motherboard first. It may be necessary to bent the case a little to get the firewire and USB port away from the case

Pull on the middle of the board next, angling up to clear the front audio jacks from the case

Pull the board away from the right side of the case

Remove the three screws holding the heatsink to the mother board (silver coloured 4mm screws)

Remove the heatsink fan connecter

Lift the heatsink off the board

Use a flat blade screwdriver to turn the CPU lock and remove the CPU