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These disassembly pictures show how you can access an upgrade or replace main components in an Asus A6R laptop. Almost all main components can be easily accessed through the bottom of the laptop without taking the whole thing apart.
Before you go inside the laptop do not forget to unplug the power adapter and remove the battery. Let’s take a look at the laptop components you can remove yourself and possibly upgrade them:
1. This laptop comes with a 80GB IDE hard drive witch can be easily upgraded to a bigger 100GB or 120GB IDE hard drive. To remove the hard drive, simply slide it towards the battery bay and after it got disconnected from the connector lift it up.
2. Both memory modules can be accessed from the bottom of the laptop. This laptop comes with two 256MB DDR2-533 PC2-4200 memory modules. Asus A6R can handle up to 2GB memory total, so you can install up to 1GB memory into EACH slot.
3. Wireless card can be accessed from the bottom. You can remove the wireless card the same way as you remove the memory module, spread latches on both sides of the card and carefully pull it from the slot by the card edges. There are two antenna cables connected to the wireless card. The black cables goes to the main connector on the wireless card and the white cable goes to the auxiliary connector. To unsnap the antenna cable from the wireless card, simply grab the golden connector with your fingers and pull it up.
4. The cooling module – fan and heat sink can be accessed through the cover on the bottom. It’s very convenient if you want to clean it. If you clean the cooling module with compressed air once a month, your laptop will never suffer from overheating.
If you want to replace the cooling fan, just remove two screws securing the fan and unplug the cable from the motherboard. That’s it.
5. This laptop comes with a Pentium M 1.73GHz processor. CPU is located under the heat sink but I don’t think if it’s a good idea upgrading the CPU because it’s too expensive.
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