Gateway Solo 9550 Installation instructions

GATEWAY 9550 COMPLETE DISASSEMBLY GUIDE
●Remove Battery, CD ROM, Floppy Drive.
●Remove hard drive assembly under Floppy Drive Unit.
●Remove Memory Cover and Memory
●Remove Wireless Cover & Wireless Card.
●Remove Po er button plate by gently prying up from the right hand side.
●Remove Keyboard ( 2 Scre s, release tab on left hand side). Release ribbon cable.
●Remove Display. Gently pry up hinge covers.
●Remove metal plate over display cable ( 2 scre s, long on left / short on right).
●Detach Display Cable.
●Remove Display Mount Scre s (4 scre s).
●Remove Front Speaker Assembly (4 Scre s on bottom front). Leave ribbon cable
attached.
●Remove Scre s (4) from front of Main Chassis exposed after the Speaker Assembly is
removed.

GATEWAY 9550 COMPLETE DISASSEMBLY GUIDE
●Remove (11) Scre s from Bottom of Chassis. + (4) Short Scre s parallel to rear feet.
●On top of Chassis, Remove (1) scre in front of Touchpad, (1 black) scre near center
of po erboard, (1 silver) scre at the back of po erboard.
●Remove Heatsink Assembly (6) Scre s. Detach Fan po er clip. ( Antennae ires run
under heatsink and thread under PCI mount to bottom of board)..
●You can no remove Top Assembly.
●Lift front of Top Chassis Cover and Detach Speaker Ribbon Cable, Detach Touchpad
Cable.
●Remove Video chip board (1) scre .
●Detach hard drive interface (HDI) (4) scre s.
●Detach Ports interface clip. Wire is Threaded under HDI scre mounts.
●Remove (2) Modem scre s. Lift Modem. Keep ires clip attached.
●Remove (2) Port Assembly scre s. Lift Port Assembly. Keep ires attached.
●Remove (6) hex heads on rear of chassis. Remove (2) scre s from Docking Mount.
●Remove (2) long scre s from PCI mount.

GATEWAY 9550 COMPLETE DISASSEMBLY GUIDE

GATEWAY 9550 COMPLETE DISASSEMBLY GUIDE
●Remove (2) scre s adjacent to Parallel port. (Hole 4, 5)(Holes are labeled on mobo).
●Remove (5) HEX Mount posts (Hole 3, 8, 10, 12, 13). (DO NOT REMOVE ROUND
POSTS ADJACENT TO PROCESSOR).
●Remove Front CD ROM rail (1) scre , slide out.
●Remove Rear CD ROM rail (2) scre s.
●Detach red/blue fan clip.
●Lift Board from front and slide a ay from rear face plate.
●Done.