Owners Manual

Power button with fingerprint reader
Removing the power button with fingerprint reader
1. Follow the procedure in Before working inside your computer.
2. Remove the base cover.
3. Remove the I/O-board interposers.
4. Remove the battery.
5. Remove the I/O board.
6. To remove the power button with fingerprint (optional):
NOTE:
Step 1, 2, and 4 are applicable only for the computers that are shipped with fingerprint reader.
a) Open the latch and disconnect the fingerprint-reader cable from the system board and peel the fingerprint-reader cable from the
palm-rest and keyboard assembly [1].
b) Unroute the fingerprint reader cable [2].
c) Peel the tape that secures the power button cable to the palm-rest and keyboard assembly [3].
d) Remove the screw (M1.6x1.8) that secures the fingerprint-reader to the palm-rest and keyboard assembly [4].
e) Remove the screw (M2x1.7) that secures the power button to the palm-rest and keyboard assembly [5].
f) Peel and lift the power button and fingerprint reader (optional), along with its cable, off the palm-rest and keyboard assembly [6].
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