Asus VivoBook S400CA Disassembly
In this guide, I’ll disassemble Asus VivoBook S400CA, I will remove and replace the battery, hard drive, SSD, RAM, wireless card, speakers, keyboard, USB board and motherboard.
Remove ten screws from the bottom case, pry up and remove the bottom case.
Under the bottom case, you can get access to the battery, hard drive, SSD, RAM, wireless card, speakers, heat sink and cooling fan.
Remove four screws securing the battery, disconnect the battery power cable, you can remove the battery.
Asus VivoBook S400CA using a 11.1v, 4000mah Li-polymer battery.
Separate the clips, remove the RAM.
Remove three screws securing the hard drive module, remove the hard drive.
ASUS VivoBook S400CA uses a ASint 2GB DDR3 1600MHz memory and a Seagate 320GB 5400 RPM hard disk.
Remove four screws securing the heat sink.
Remove two screws securing the cooling fan.
Disconnect the cooling fan cable from the motherboard.
Remove the heat sink and cooling fan.
Disconnect two wireless card antennas.
Remove one screw securing the wireless card.
Wireless card and cooling fan
Disconnect the white cable.
Remove four screws securing the I/O board. Remove the I/O board.
The I/O board has two USB ports, a headphone / microphone jack and a card reader slot.
Disconnect the white cable. Remove the LED indicator module.
Remove one screw securing the SSD. Remove the SSD.
ASUS VivoBook S400CA features a Kingston 24GB SSD.
Remove four screws securing the motherboard.
Disconnect the LCD cable, keyboard cable and touchpad cable.
Remove the motherboard
ASUS VivoBook S400CA built-in a Micron 4GB of memory, it is also haS a RAM slot for users upgraded RAM.
Remove the screws securing the LCD hinge, you can remove the LCD screen assembly.
Although ASUS VivoBook S400 is a low-cost ultrabook, but workmanship is very good. Also, provide memory slots, more user-friendly upgrades, hybrid hard drive is designed not only to ensure the speed, and reduce costs. Therefore, such a use of the touch screen, so it is very worthy to buy.
Any idea how to take apart the screen to replace the digitizer? This information is no where on the Internet.
the digitizer cannt remove, you need to replace the whole touchscreen assembly
Please, how the cable from motherboard to LCD (screen) can be safely disconnected? Thanks
I am also trying to remove the LCD cable from this screen, ad it seems to have a short in it? Has anyone found the answer?
Thanks
Any way to replace the UFL wifi antenna cables?
is replacing the keyboard on this possible? If so, is it a harder task than swapping other laptop keyboards or fairly reasonable? Thanks!
Just did a keyboard replacement on one of these. If you see the keyboard for sale without the palm rest don’t buy it as removing the old keyboard from your existing palm rest without breaking anything is extremely hard / inpossible. The standoffs for various components are on sheets of metal that are welded? to the keyboard and the palm rest and whilst with a bit of effort you can just rip them off, you’re not going to be putting them back on again. To replace the keyboard & palm rest you will need to remove the battery, IO board, motherboard and the display assembly. NB: my palm rest & keyboard also included speakers but not the LED board or touchpad.
hi, i have unfortunately I have caused a short circuit by touching the connectors where you plug the display cable. from that moment does not turn more. I was told that probably burned some component in the feed zone. Any of you have the schematic of this laptop?
Hi Where can i buy a new/used Motherboard for this computer??? I have looked everywhere i can think of on the internet! Can anyone help me??
My S400CA with motherboard part #60NB0050-MB5010, i5 CPU.
Would a motherboard part# 60NB0050-MB5030, i3 CPU work? All the connectors and screw holes line up. The processor is a bit slower but the cost is almost 1/2. I’m mostly just using word so speed isn’t a huge factor.
Thanks
Wes
Yes. I’ve gone from I3 to I7 before. You should be fine.
I have a S400CA, the device does not start anymore. now i want to get the date of the harddrive. what is the best way do to this. can i just open it and plut in a cabele at the hard drive and put the data at my other laptop or is there no port there for any cable. who can help
The complexity of this largely depends on if you have the 24GB SSD module or not. If you don’t it’s pretty easy; just buy a USB to 2.5 SATA cable / caddy then use it to plug the drive into a USB port of a working computer which will allow you to access the data. If you have the SSD module it depends on if it’s been used as cache or not. If it has then this may be problematic as your data will be distributed between both drives. You’ll need to find an adaptor for it, connect it to a machine & just hope that Windows will see it. Good luck.
Some of the screws from my laptop are missing…can anyone help me with determining what kind of screws they are and where I can get them?
Hi guys,
Please, advise. I have a faulty onboard memory on the ASUS s400ca. May I know, if adding/expanding the memory with 4 GB on the available free slot will help.
Thank you.
Regards.
hi is it possible to change the speakers? mine doesnt work anymore and is it possible to install a m.2 ssd to replace the kingston 24gb ssd thanks
Hi, is it possible to disconnect the touch screen from the motherboard?