Lenovo ThinkPad T530 Heatsink Replacement

Flip your laptop upside down, so that the keyboard is facing down.

Locate the latch located on the battery near the top of the laptop.

Using your finger, slide the latch to the right-most (Unlocked) position.

You can now pull the battery away from the laptop. When pulling the battery out, ensure to pull it out straight.

Using a Phillips #00 screwdriver, unscrew the following screws, and then remove the cover.

Using a Phillips #00 screwdriver, remove the screw. This is one of the two screws that are holding in the keyboard.

Using a Phillips #00 screwdriver, unscrew the highlighted screw. This is the last screw securing the keyboard to the laptop.

Flip the laptop right-side up, with the keyboard facing towards you.

Open the laptop.

Place each of your two thumbs on the bottom-left and right most corners of the keyboard (towards the arrow keys, and the Fn (Function) key).

Gentilly and slowly push the keyboard up (towards the display)

Lift the two corners of the keyboard up enough to see the ribbon cable below.

Angle the keyboard upwards, at a 90° angle.

Keep one finger holding the keyboard up, while using the other to disconnect the ribbon cable. To disconnect the ribbon cable, lift it up by the highlighted yellow end.

The keyboard is now disconnected from the laptop, and you can remove it and place it aside.

Reconnect the keyboard ribbon cable by pushing it down onto the slot.

Guide the keyboards top edge underneath the frame.

Push the keyboard down, then pull it back towards your trackpad.

Using a Phillips #00 screwdriver, re-screw the highlighted screws.

Reinsert the bottom memory cover, ensuring all clips are in place.

Using a Phillips #00 tighten the two highlighted screws.

Using a Phillips #00 screwdriver, remove the bottom screw to unlock the storage drive cover.

Lift up the storage drive cover from the lip highlighted in orange. Put it aside.

Pull the storage drive out of the slot from the tab.

Grab the rubber spacers highlighted in red, and pull them away from the drive.

Using a Phillips #00 screwdriver, unscrew the four screws, two on each of the left, and right side of the drive.

Using a Philips M2 screwdriver, remove the 2 screws highlighted in yellow. The bottom screw is underneath the hard drive, which should have already been removed.

Pull the ExpressCard from the ridges on the side, it should pop out of place.

Using a Philips 2 screwdriver, remove the 7 screws highlighted in red.

Begin by prying the keyboard bezel up from the edges using a guitar pick or shim between the keyboard bezel and the housing of the laptop, as highlighted in red.

Locate the ribbon cable near the trackpad highlighted in red, use a flathead screwdriver or some other flat object to push up the locking leaver to then free the ribbon connector.

Grab the keyboard bezel from the two bottom corners (near the trackpad) and lift the bezel up- and away from the display (away from you).

Locate the Speaker, on the middle-left of the laptop.

Remove the two highlighted silver Phillips #00 screws

Now that the two screws have been removed, you can pull the speaker to the side, as seen in the second photo.

Using a Phillips #00, loosten the screws in the order below, however do not entirely remove them from the heatsink.

Loosten the top-left screw

Loosten the bottom-right screw

Loosten the bottom-left screw

Loosten the top-right screw

Use your hand to unplug the fan cable for the heatsink.

Using your hand, gently pull the heatsink away from the display (towards the trackpad) enough to move it up.