Aspire 3050 upgrade Sempron to Turion x2 Tl 50

govi · 02-12-2009, 11:15 PM

YOU WILL VERY LIKELY VOID YOUR WARRANTY BY DOING THIS!!
This is to be used only at your own risk.
1. Preparation:
a. upgrade the bios to ver. 3315
b. buy a Turion TL-50(I bought one from ebay by 18$)

c. buy the thermal compound( arctic silver 5)

d. earth yourself and draw a layout of notebook.(make sure not missing any screw)

e. watch the video carefully (almost as same sa 3050)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdhUAg56tFs

govi · 02-12-2009, 11:24 PM

2.Disassemble
a. unplug ac adapter, remove the battary.

b. remove the 2 screws and open the cover.

c. disconnect the antenna (remember which one is on the left and which one is on the right.)

govi · 02-12-2009, 11:27 PM

d. disconnect the 3 cables carefully

e. remove the cover over the hard drive and remove the hard drive.

f. remove the 3 screws on this side.

govi · 02-12-2009, 11:32 PM

g. put the LCD at this position.

h. remove the long cover, and remove the 2 screws on the keyboard.

i. disconnect the power cable and lcd cable.

govi · 02-12-2009, 11:36 PM

j. disconnect the keyboard and remove it.

k. remove the antenna carefully

l. remove the 4 screws which fix the LCD.

m. remove the LCD

govi · 02-12-2009, 11:40 PM

n. remove the 3 screws on which were under the keyboard. disconnect the touchpad cable carefully.(blue tag)

o. remove all the screws on the backside.

p. remove the dvd drive

govi · 02-12-2009, 11:43 PM

q. remove the top cover

r. remove the 2 screws pointed by white arrows.

s. now we can remove the motherboard.

govi · 02-12-2009, 11:48 PM

t. remove the 5 screws on the heatsink.

u. remove the heatsink carefully, if u don't want to break cpu and chipset.

v. use the screwdriver to release the black screw.

govi · 02-12-2009, 11:52 PM

w. Remove the sempron from the soket carefully and replace it by Turion. Clean the core by purfier. Put some thermal compound on the core.(no to much, just cover the core) screw the black screw to the lock position. Clean the heatsink by cleaner and remove the old thermal compound.

govi · 02-12-2009, 11:57 PM

3.Assamble
I think you can do this all by yourself. Just be careful that you connect the cooling fan's cable.

BTW, you can also upgrade the ram from 512 to 2GB