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CQ50, CQ60 or CQ70 laptop
In the following guide I remove the motherboard from a Compaq Presario CQ50 laptop. Also this guide should work for
Compaq Presario CQ 60/CQ70 and HP G50/G60/G70 laptops.
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Start laptop disassembly with removing the battery.
STEP 1.
Remove memory, hard drive and wireless card covers.
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STEP 2.
Remove three screws securing the hard drive assembly.
Slide the hard drive assembly to the right, disconnect it from the motherboard and remove from the laptop.
STEP 3.
Remove both memory modules.
Disconnect two antenna cables from the wireless card. Remove two screws and remove the wireless card from the laptop.
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STEP 4.
Remove one screw securing the DVD drive.
Pull the DVD drive from the laptop.
STEP 5.
Remove all screws from the bottom of the laptop.
Disconnect the CMOS battery cable from the motherboard.
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STEP 6.
Carefully lift up the keyboard as it shown on the picture below.
STEP 7.
Access the keyboard cable connector underneath the keyboard.
Unlock the connector before removing the keyboard.
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In order to unlock the connector you’ll have to move the locking clip (white) about 2-3 millimeters towards the LCD screen.
The locking clip must stat attached to the connector base (dark brown) as it shown on the picture below.
Now you can release the cable and remove the keyboard.
STEP 8.
Unlock the power button cable connector.
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On the following picture you can see the connector in the unlocked state.
Now you can remove the power button board cable from the connector.
STEP 9.
Remove the plastic cover.
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STEP 10.
Disconnect the video cable connector from the motherboard.
Disconnect the webcam cable.
Pull the wireless card antenna cable through the opening in the top cover.
STEP 11.
Remove screws securing the display hinges.
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STEP 12.
Remove the display assembly from the laptop.
In the next post I explain how to remove the LCD screen, inverter board and hinges from the display assembly in HP
G50/G60/G70 laptops. It’s similar for Compaq Presario CQ50/CQ60/CQ70 laptops.
STEP 13.
Disconnect the touch pad cable from the motherboard.
Remove screws securing the top cover assembly.
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STEP 14.
Start separating the top cover assembly from the laptop base.
You can use a guitar pick in order to split the laptop case.
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STEP 15.
The top cover assembly has been removed.
STEP 16.
Remove one screw securing the left speaker.
Remove the left speaker from the base.
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STEP 17.
Remove four screws securing the motherboard.
Disconnect four cables from the motherboard.
STEP 18.
Remove the motherboard from the laptop base.
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STEP 19.
Disconnect the cooling fan cable from the motherboard.
STEP 20.
Loosen four screws securing the cooling fan assembly.
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STEP 21.
Remove the cooling fan assembly from the laptop.
STEP 22.
In this model the power jack is not soldered to the motherboard.
You can unplug the power jack cable from the motherboard and replace it with a new DC jack harness if it’s bad.
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BENNY Says:
May 2nd, 2011 at 5:56 am
EXCUSME SOMEONE HELP ME i DISSEMBLED MY HP G60 TO INSTALL A NEW TOUCH PAD, BUT NOW A
HAVE A SIGN SAY SECURITY CERTIFICATE EXPIRE, COULD SOMEONE HELP ME IN THIS MATTER, DO i
NEED TO UPGRADE HARD DRIVE , I went to h.p. driver I downloading all then again to see , If that sign disappear,
but nothing, any help is welcome , thank you guys.Benny , from Miami.
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benny Says:
May 2nd, 2011 at 5:47 am
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THANK YOU GUYS , I LEARN A LOT ….THANK YOU AGAIN
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James Says:
April 26th, 2011 at 12:15 pm
Thanks for the guide, made disasembling the system much easier.
156
Laptop Tech Says:
April 17th, 2011 at 9:12 am
Daniel,
I was trying to install a P8400 (I had a spare) into it but it won’t start. I installed everything correctly
because I put the old T3200 back in and everything works like a champ. HP’s guide says it can be done
but it’s not working…. Any Ideas???
I’m not sure if you can upgrade from T3200 to P8400 processor.
T3200 has 667 MHz FSB speed and P8400 has 1066 MHz FSB speed.
I guess your motherboard chipset doesn’t support 1066 MHz FSB. Check your chipset specifications.
155
Daniel Says:
I was just working on a CQ50-130US and upgraded the memory to 4GB 800MHZ (which it doesn’t run at only 667)
Replaced the hard drive to a 7200rpm black drive and I was trying to install a P8400 (I had a spare) into it but it won’t
start. I installed everything correctly because I put the old T3200 back in and everything works like a champ. HP’s
guide says it can be done but it’s not working…. Any Ideas???
I Updated the bios to the latest, F65 I believe from Compaq’s site.
I tried putting one stick of memory to see if there was a problem.
I pulled the CMOS battery and reset the settings (Time and Date only things compaq allows).
The CPU is a good CPU because I just put it back into my HTPC and it works fine….
I know there were differences between different P series chips but I can’t seem to understand it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Daniel
154
Laptop Tech Says:
April 8th, 2011 at 2:13 pm
james,
worked great thanks, only problem is that its giving me a invalid serial number on startup, how can I fix
this
Go the BIOS menu. Maybe you can change the motherboard serial number in there.
On some motherboards you have to run special utility to set up the serial number (available only for HP certified
technicians).
153
james Says:
worked great thanks, only problem is that its giving me a invalid serial number on startup, how can I fix this, please
email me back.
152
damngay Says:
March 31st, 2011 at 5:17 am
thx alot dude for the guide…. keep rocking
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rich conrad Says:
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March 20th, 2011 at 12:27 pm
HANK YOU!!!!!! i had my android tablet with ur webpage on while i tore apart my cq50.. with ur guide this so was
SSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOO easy….. i got the new trackpad faceplate thing from ebay for 12$!!! i thanks you a million
times for this page…… you rock…(took me anout hour to do it .. i had to reset mouse /pad after though )
richook
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Laptop Tech Says:
March 18th, 2011 at 10:18 am
Luke,
my laptop fan burn out and the laptop kept shutting down. I have since replaced it with the help of this
guide but a new problem has arisen. The screen seems to have failed – no backlight, no dark text. I’m
unsure what’s wrong since i checked the connections and made sure the screen wasn’t badly connected.
Any advice?
Does your laptop turn on at all? Can you hear normal hard drive sound? Can you see the hard drive light flashing?
You said the screen failed but maybe the whole system will not start, not just the screen?
Can you get any image on the external monitor?
Here’s my guess. If you removed the CPU, it’s possible you didn’t install it back into the socket correctly. Or you
forgot to lock the socket.
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How to remove motherboard from Compaq Presario

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Start laptop disassembly with removing the battery.

Remove memory, hard drive and wireless card covers.

Remove three screws securing the hard drive assembly.

Remove both memory modules.

Remove one screw securing the DVD drive.

Pull the DVD drive from the laptop.

Remove all screws from the bottom of the laptop.

Disconnect the CMOS battery cable from the motherboard.

Carefully lift up the keyboard as it shown on the picture below.

Access the keyboard cable connector underneath the keyboard.

Unlock the connector before removing the keyboard.

Unlock the power button cable connector.

Remove the plastic cover.

Disconnect the video cable connector from the motherboard.

Disconnect the webcam cable.

Remove screws securing the display hinges.

Remove the display assembly from the laptop.

Disconnect the touch pad cable from the motherboard.

Remove screws securing the top cover assembly.

The top cover assembly has been removed.

Remove one screw securing the left speaker.

Remove the left speaker from the base.

Remove four screws securing the motherboard.

Disconnect four cables from the motherboard.

Remove the motherboard from the laptop base.

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Disconnect the cooling fan cable from the motherboard.

Loosen four screws securing the cooling fan assembly.

Remove the cooling fan assembly from the laptop.

In this model the power jack is not soldered to the motherboard.

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THANK YOU GUYS , I LEARN A LOT ….THANK YOU AGAIN

thx alot dude for the guide…. keep rocking

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