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Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 Motherboard Replacement

Introduction

This guide will tell you how to gain access to and remove the motherboard.

What you need

  1. Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 Motherboard Replacement, Battery: step 1, image 1 of 1

    • Locate the bay door for the battery on the left side of the laptop.

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    • Slide the latch to the right and then down to unlock it.

    • Pull out the battery.

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  3. Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 Motherboard Replacement, Hard Drive: step 3, image 1 of 1

    • Locate the door for the hard drive on the right side of the laptop

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    • Push and slide the latch up to open the hard drive door.

    • Pull out the hard drive.

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  5. Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 Motherboard Replacement, Optical Drive: step 5, image 1 of 1

    • Flip the device upside down with the handle facing away from you.

    • Open the optical drive bay by sliding its latch to the right.

    • Locate optical drive release mechanism on the bottom of the laptop.

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  6. Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 Motherboard Replacement: step 6, image 1 of 1

    • Slide the latch cover to the right.

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    • Push the exposed switch to the left to eject the optical drive.

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  8. Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 Motherboard Replacement, Back Cover: step 8, image 1 of 1

    • Begin by turning the laptop upside down with the handle towards you.

    • Use a Phillips size 0 screwdriver to remove the 4 screws holding down the ram cover.

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  10. Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 Motherboard Replacement: step 9, image 1 of 1

    • Remove the panel and set it aside.

    • Use a Phillips size 0 screwdriver to remove these 8 small screws.

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  11. Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 Motherboard Replacement: step 10, image 1 of 1

    • Use a Phillips size 1 screwdriver to remove the remaining 8 screws.

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    • Use a plastic opening tool to release, but NOT remove, the back cover because it is sealed with adhesive.

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  13. Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 Motherboard Replacement: step 12, image 1 of 1

    • Be careful when lifting the cover as you may damage some connections.

    • Slowly lift the cover so that you can disconnect the red and white wires connecting the speaker to the sound card.

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  14. Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 Motherboard Replacement: step 13, image 1 of 1

    • Now the back cover should be off and you can access the inside of the casing.

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  15. Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 Motherboard Replacement, Wireless Card: step 14, image 1 of 1

    • Remove the black and white wires attached to the wireless card by simply pulling up.

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  16. Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 Motherboard Replacement: step 15, image 1 of 1

    • Peel back the black cover to expose the clips holding in the wireless card.

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  17. Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 Motherboard Replacement: step 16, image 1 of 1

    • Using a pair of plastic opening tools, push the two metal tabs away from the card.

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    • The wireless card should now easily disengage from the motherboard.

    • Pull the card horizontally away from you to remove it from its housing.

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  19. Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 Motherboard Replacement, Motherboard: step 18, image 1 of 2 Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 Motherboard Replacement, Motherboard: step 18, image 2 of 2

    • Unplug 3 cables

    • Lift up on brown tab to release cable

    • Pull cable up and out

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    • Remove 2 long screws indicated with red circles

    • Remove the remaining screws indicated in blue

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  21. Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 Motherboard Replacement: step 20, image 1 of 1

    • On the back of the unit, unscrew the three screws surrounding the serial port.

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  22. Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 Motherboard Replacement: step 21, image 1 of 1

    • Lift the motherboard as shown, pull towards you and then up.

    • Do not yet try to fully remove the motherboard or you may destroy the connections

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  23. Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 Motherboard Replacement: step 22, image 1 of 1

    • Detach the white ribbon cable, the white cluster connector, and the ribbon cable right next to the cluster

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    • Remove the board.

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Conclusion

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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4 Comments

what about spare parts? is it possible cange MOBO and CPU?  in order to upgrade the thoughbook?

Concetto Salierno - Reply

I think y'all missed a step.

Gemini - Reply

Où acheter la carte mère?

MERCI

Pascal Cohu - Reply

Sur Google, recherchez "DL3UP1396AAA Panasonic CF-29 System Board" (à rechercher sans les guillemets), vous aurez quelques résultats (j'ai vu au moins 2 sites qui la propose à la vente), par contre, elle est cher.

Autre recherche possible : "DL3UP1396BAA Panasonic CF-29 System Board", je ne connais pas la différence entre ces variantes

Autre recherche possible : "DL3U11213FAA Panasonic CF-29 System Board", je ne connais pas la différence entre ces variantes

Brendan -

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