In this guide, I will disassemble a Lenovo ThinkPad S1 Yoga to remove the battery, speakers, wireless card, cooling fan, palm rest, SSD, bottom case, and motherboard. Refer to this guide. You can repair and upgrade your ThinkPad S1 Yoga.
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Remove all screws securing the bottom case.
When the bottom case removed, you can get access to the cooling fan, battery, speakers, SSD, CMOS battery, wireless card and motherboard.
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There is a shock-absorbing sponge on the bottom case.
Dust gauze
Remove all screws securing the battery and disconnect the battery connector from the motherboard.
The laptop comes with a Li-polymer battery, 14.8v, 47wh, Lenovo P/N: 45N1704, 45N1705.
Here’s cooling fan
Remove one screw securing the wireless card.
Unplug two wireless antenna cables. You can remove the wireless card.
It features an Intel® Wireless-N 7260 wireless card. It is support 802.11n, 2×2, 2.4-GHz, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0.
Lenovo model: 04W3815.
Remove two screws securing the SSD. Lift up the tape and take it out.
This Lenovo ThinkPad S1 Yoga comes with a Samsung 128GB 2.5″ SSD, Lenovo model: 0C41202, 04X4054.
There are two shock-absorbing sponges and a LED indicator under the SSD.
Lenovo ThinkPad S1 Yoga CMOS battery
Lenovo ThinkPad S1 Yoga speaker modules
Lenovo ThinkPad S1 Yoga motherboard
The RAM chips soldering on the motherboard
When the motherboard removed, you can access the keyboard and touchpad.
Lenovo YOGA 910 with the integrated aluminum body, cooling holes hidden inside the LCD hinges, with 3D surface CNC ring edge, more clean and tidy, the thickness of the body is reduced to 14.3 mm, the weight only 1.38kg.
It comes with 4K resolution ultra-clear screen, pixel density up to 316PPI, and supports 100% sRGB color gamut. There are three ultra-narrow borders, the side width of only 4.95mm, screen ratio of 81.5%, 13-inch body Get a 14-inch experience.
The laptop comes with an Intel Kaby Lake Core processors, the maximum optional 1TB SSD. And the first butterfly fan technology, 3D butterfly shape blade thin to 0.1 mm, and a composite graphite sheet to assist in heat dissipation, heat dissipation performance than the previous increase of 10%, the noise does not exceed 35 decibels.
Battery capacity of 78Wh, while having the highest density battery cell of the world, to 700Wh / L, combined with custom power management technology, the longest life can reach 10.5 hours, and support shutdown for the phone charge. The power interface is USB Type-C.
Remove ten screws securing the bottom cover with a screwdriver.
There is no clip securing the bottom cover to the laptop, so you can remove the bottom cover very easy.
Actually, this latch is used to secure the bottom cover.
With the bottom cover removed, you can see the battery take up most space. And we do not find the RAM slot.
Before touch any internal hardware, the good idea is disconnect the battery connector.
Unplug the battery connector by the arrow.
Remove four screws securing the battery to its body and take out the battery.
Lenovo Yoga 910 comes with an 8.8V, 9900mAh Li-ion battery.
Lenovo P/N: L15M4P23, manufactured by Simplo.
Under the battery, you can get access to the Lenovo Yoga 910’s touchpad.
Unplug two wireless card antenna cables.
Remove one screw securing the card and take out it from its slot.
It features an ANATEL wireless card. Lenovo P/N: 01AX713.
Remove one screw and take out the SSD from its slot.
The Yoga 910 comes with a Samsung MZ-VLV2560 PM951 PCIe NVMe 256GB SSD. Lenovo P/N: 5SD0J46479.
The 8GB RAM is covered by the metal shield.
Lenovo Yoga 910 motherboard integration is very high, at least not lost in the Macbook pro.
On both sides of the small board is mainly used to expand the interface.
Let us take a look at the two small boards, mainly is the USB Type-C jack and 3.5mm headphone jack.
The back of the motherboard
Remove the metal shield. You can find four Micron RAM chips, single of 1GB, the total of 4GB.
The front of the motherboard
Blue: four Micron RAM chips, single of 1GB, the total of 4GB
Red: Intel® Core™ i5-7200U 2.50 GHz processor (3M Cache, up to 3.10 GHz) with Intel® HD Graphics 620
Orange: Lenovo IT8186VG-192
Under the motherboard, you can get access the backlit keyboard.
Remove one screw and disconnect one cable, you can remove the fingerprint module.
Here’s fingerprint module.