What are the chances of breaking a laptop when adding new components to it?

Question

Iron

Hello.
I'm planning to add ram and m2 ssd to my laptop and this raises a natural question... Are there any general tips to avoid breaking the laptop by adding these parts to it?
The battery is not removable

Answer 1

THE MOST IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER
Or why you need a lot of tools and equipment, and not a table with a newspaper and a batin screwdriver
You bought a laptop for XXX bucks. At the factory, it was assembled using a bit suitable for the screws, a mechanical screwdriver with the correct tightening torque. At the same time, the laptop was on an antistatic mat, and each screw was treated with a thread lock.
If, as a result of intervention, the screws are beaten with a bad tool, part will be lost immediately, and part - when they turn out (without a thread lock), the laptop will already be cramping (and will not be worth its XXX bucks).
THE MOST IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER IS OVER
1) Lack of manual skillscan play tricks on you. Picking a laptop is a highly complex operation. If you have never done electronic work with your own hands before, the risk increases. (No, replacing the caps on your swallow does not apply to such work).
In particular, you will not feel with your hands when efforts can be applied, and when they should not, when the screw is tightened, and when the thread has already begun to break. When plastic can be pulled, and when it is about to break right now.
Manual skills can only be obtained in practice, no textbook or YouTube will give you the feeling of "this is not necessary, this is how it is!" (Tiktok won't help either).
2) Lack of knowledge and understanding of what is in front of you and how it should work
You simply will not understand what kind of blocks and loops are in front of you, why they are needed, how they work correctly, and how they work incorrectly. Therefore, if something goes wrong, you will either break the device, or you will look for the problem for a very long time, and then amuse the serviceman.
3) It is important to have tools and equipment. An antistatic mat for work is much better than a table covered with newspaper, a screwdriver should not be taken from your grandfather yet Soviet, namely with the type of slot that you need to unscrew (otherwise the licked fasteners are guaranteed). The screws in a laptop, as a rule, sit on a thread lock, which you also need to buy and use - otherwise after a while they will turn out, fall out and be lost (or fun short something inside)
Thus, in order to do this operation efficiently, you must have:

• plastic spatulas or a sharpened credit card to open the case. No, you don’t need to take a plectrum from an assistant balalaika player - it is intended for playing the balalaika - it has too small an area, it will be hard to grab onto it.
  
• thread lock
  
• a cassette with cells where you will put the removed fasteners. Not in a pile on the table, not in an inverted lid - but in a cassette. So that later, watching the video of how you disassembled, you deftly took the necessary screws and put them in place. Otherwise, you can plant a longer screw instead of the regular one and stupidly make a hole in the motherboard, drive, memory, or just the case.
  
• suitable screwdrivers, and preferably not from the store "all for 35 rubles." A screwdriver licked on a screw is a masterpiece!
  
• clothes should not be made of synthetics, otherwise it will be fun
  
• Need knowledge and skills on how all of the above is correctly and safely applied in practice
  

Answer 2

There are of course
0.1 Of course, when disassembling the case, do not use iron screwdrivers, but plastic spatulas (screwdrivers for bolts)
0.2 remember the location and length of the bolts (sometimes they are different)
1 pull out the battery (disconnect the plug)
2 hold the button on for several seconds
3 ideally work with gloves; dry, clean hands, do not hold boards with your fingers,
do not pick
with screwdrivers

Answer 3

The usual advice is to act carefully, using force, always think that you can bend and break.
When adding, set aside as far as possible a cup of coffee, vases, things that can fall on a laptop.
When wiping something from dust, try not to push this dust even further, but carefully remove it and not scratch anything.
Yes, in general, it is mostly straightforwardness and accuracy, there may be little specific advice.
Shut down of course first.

Answer 4

What are the chances of breaking a laptop when adding new components to it?

As a radio equipment repair specialist with 15 years of experience, I’ll say that even a specialist has a small chance, the one who asks such questions has a chance of almost 100%

I plan to add ram and ssd m2

Are you sure that "adding" RAM will give you something?
And why exactly M2, and not standard SATA? Are you sure that in your laptop there is where to stick it?

Are there any general tips for not breaking a laptop by adding these parts to it?

General advice to those who ask such questions - Contact the experts, such services cost a penny.

The battery is not removable

I am tormented by vague doubts that we are talking about a netbook where, as a rule, adding RAM is a very non-trivial and unpromising event.

Answer 5

Big for a noob.
A laptop is like a big mobile phone - extremely accurate and extremely tight layout.
Therefore:
- before disassembly, we take a picture of everything
- we use watch screwdrivers - the screws are extremely miniature, remember how they are located - sometimes the screws are of different lengths and are by no means interchangeable :)
- we don’t make any effort - everything should be inserted and removed easily if something is not inserted / not removed - it means you put / take it out in the wrong / wrong place / wrong
- we try to grab onto the boards as little as possible
- there are a lot of videos on Google with disassembly of one or another laptop model, there are such tightly packed ones that you’ll understand the hell out of two, type Sony Vaio

Answer 6

If you do not accidentally close the contacts, then nothing will happen. Before doing this, the laptop must be turned off.