Asus N53 Installing Memory (or Hard Drive )

[zetrathoth]

@spireland5 Do you know how to open this laptop to clean the fan? My N53SN fan started making weird noises and not functioning properly and lead to overheating.

[OneSourb]

Hello @spireland5, I've buy an n53 and I want to add him some RAM. Rubbers are recovering ?

[TheJipp]

Someone should make a video how to open it so far that you can replace the video card and processor gpu-s termal paste and clean the vents, because this laptop have a serious problem getting overeheated.

[aaronscholl]

Thank you very much!

[DanielHodgson27]

I own one of these laptops, and while I'm quite satisfied with it (build quality is pretty good), I have to say that it was a pretty dick move by ASUS to hide those screws under the feet.

I mean, really. What a wonderful way to make sure that people will lose the rubber feet for the bottom of their laptop.

Stupid stupid stupid. So so so so stupid.

[DanielHodgson27]

@DanielHodgson27

Seriously, not even Apple does that, and they're known for making inconvenient design decisions for the sake of clean-cut design or performance benefits (difficult to replace batteries on newer models come to mind, but I'm not exactly complaining, since the battery life increase is fairly significant).

[Gam1ngChannel]

Do you keep your warranty?

[EcoGradWins]

Thanks for showing how to access that! 'Bout to drop in 8 more gigs of RAM and an 128 GB Crucial M4 SSD.

BTW, in my research I've found it IS POSSIBLE to have both the SSD and the original hard drive... you just have to sacrifice the optical drive and get a OBHD caddy from newmodeus

[carmo2y]

That's what I need... thank's!

[kurmakk]

hey can you tell me where i can find my wireless card? i wanna swap it out for a stronger one...

[Confettikoter]

Is there room for a second hard drive?

[spireland5]

@Confettikoter No, I don't see an extra space.

[asx9393]

@spireland5

You can replace your DVD drive with a hard drive. You'll need to buy a 12.7 caddy for a 2.5 inch HDD/SSD (ebay...)

[OldLantean]

Hey there, thanks a ton for this!

I want to do some cleanup in the fan area - any way to open that part up without voiding the warranty? And if not, how would you clean it up?

[vesleengen]

Thanks! I was a bit baffled that there where no visible screws.. Installed a 160GB Intel D320 SSD and Another 4GB RAM.

But what is behind that little "hatch" in the middle? And how do you get to the fan and wifi card?

[cometcruiser91]

What is under that extra panel above where you just went? I have one and I'm not game enough to look

[MrWang1212]

can u access the wifi card?

[MrWang1212]

do the feet stay in when u put them back?

[spireland5]

@MrWang1212 Yes, they stick right back in. I've pulled mine off twice and they still stick after a few months. I would guess there is a limited amount of times you could do this, though so far they are okay.

[ElectricRope]

It shouldn't be simpler to find this here than on this on the Asus site, but it was. Thanks for the fast and simple info.

[spireland5]

@ElectricRope I had the exact same problem. I looked through the manual half a dozen times, the website, and nowhere could I find it. After I found a video on another language YouTube that led me in the right direction I figured a video like this in English might be helpful. Glad it helped!

[razaeltuga]

@spireland5 can you do a tutorial on how to get to the fan?