For access, remove these FRUs in order:

• Battery pack FRU.
• Hard disk drive (HDD) cover, HDD and HDD rubber rails or solid state drive (SSD) and storage converter FRU.
• Palm rest or palm rest with fingerprint reader FRU.
• Keyboard FRU.
• DIMM slot cover and DIMM under keyboard for Thinkpad W701, W701ds FRU.
• Keyboard bezel and speaker assembly FRU.

For ThinkPad W700 and W700ds:

Please perform the following steps as shown in the pictures below.

For models with 34-mm ExpressCard/54-mm ExpressCard slot:

For models with 34-mm ExpressCard/Smart Card slot:

For models with 34-mm ExpressCard/CompactFlash Card slot:

For ThinkPad W701 and W701ds:

For models with 34-mm ExpressCard/54-mm ExpressCard slot:

For models with 34-mm ExpressCard/Smart Card slot:

For models with 34-mm ExpressCard/CompactFlash Card slot: