Asus G73JH/JW/SW disassembly, GPU repasting

This is a video how to disassemble this laptop and repaste its GPU.
-Remove the main access pannel
-Remove the blue ray drive screw
-Remove the drive
-Remove the 2 screws in the blue ray drive bay
-Remove every screw under the laptop (the big screw holes)
-Remove the 2 hard drives
-Remove the screw in each hard drive bay
-Remove the 2 screws near the RAM and the screw near the wireless
-Remove the small top cover
-Remove the 4 screws at each corners
-Gently remove the monitor
-Remove the keyboard by pressing on each tab and peel it off without bending it (it's pretty hard, take your time)
-Remove the 2 keyboard cables
-Remove the 4 screws
-Remove the 2 ribbon cables
-Remove the speaker cable BE CAREFUL, it's easy to rip off (you must loose the plug by using a small screwdriver, do NOT pull the cable without loosing it before)
-Remove the cover
-Remove all the cables (I don't think we need to unplug them all, but I did)
-Remove 3 screws from the mother board (2 at right and one up between 2 cables, there is a small "S" near each screws)
-Remove the 3 screws from each fan
-Remove your motherboard
-Remove the heatsink with the correct screw order
-CLEAN your GPU and heatsink with alcohol
-Apply a small thermal compound ball
-Replace the heatsink with the correct order again

That's pretty much it, I don't think I forgot anything. Then just do everything backwards and be careful, some cables can get stuck underneath the motherboard.

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[Ironfistofchaos]

I'm going to do this soon with my laptop. Question though: in order to clean the heatsinks do I have to soak them in rubbing alcohol? And swab the gpu?

[Blackluc]

@Ironfistofchaos Yes use alcohol

[bsrufus]

Hi, So is there a chance you are going to do this to a g74sx model? Cheers

[Blackluc]

@bsrufus I would like too, but for that I need someobdy to bring me his broken g74sx for me to repair it ;)

[Kaiser0119]

So i was watching a BIOTech Forums vid, and when they took apart their g73 jw, they mentioned that the keyboard would have to be taken to get repaired and get more tape.....is there a way for me to take apart my laptop WITHOUT having to go to a tech to get anything repaired? Is your video it?

[Blackluc]

@Kaiser0119 Don't worry, I removed a few keyboard and I never broke any. It's hard to remove, take your time, it could take up to 15 minutes. I guess BTO just did it quickly and damaged it. Pull it gently, do not rip it off and try to pull where you can feel the tape.

[bmxerboi117]

Poser

[IvanTheDruid]

when u take apart the keyboard u and pull out the tapes and the cable. How do you plug it back in to make ur keyboard work.

[460cc]

is there a replacement for the graphics card? where can i buy a replacement?