Acer Predator 17 G9791 Disassembly
In this guide, I’ll explain how to disassemble Acer Predator 17 G9-791 to remove the bottom case, SSD, DVD drive, cooling fan, hard drive, RAM and motherboard. Refer to this guide. You can repair, upgrade and clean your Acer Predator G9-791.
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Specification:
Windows 10 Home
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Quad Core Processor 2.6GHz
17.3″ Full HD (1920 x 1080) widescreen LED-backlit IPS display
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M with 4 GB of dedicated GDDR5 VRAM
16GB DDR4 Dual Channel Memory
256GB SSD + 1TB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive
6X Blu-ray Writer
Remove two screws securing the service cover.
Remove all screws securing the bottom case.
Slide the latch to the left.
Pull the optical drive to the right and remove it from the laptop.
The Acer Predator 17 G9-791 comes with a Panasonic Matshita UJ272Q 9.5mm SATA 6X 3D Blu-ray burner.
Predator 17 G9-791’s optical drive slots design is very exciting, it not only supports tool-free quick release, and it is shipped with a cooling module, which means that the optical drive can be changed to a separate cooling module, a higher degree of freedom. About cooling module works is relatively simple, its interior has a slim fan, the red mesh is riser vent, cold air sucked from here, and throughout the inside of the fuselage, to assist two main cooling fans, improve internal air flow, so as to achieve the purpose of strengthening cooling.
The cooling modules
Sliding down the service cover and remove it.
Under the cover, you can access two SSD, a hard drive and two spare RAM slots.
Remove two securing the M.2 SSD, take it away from its slots.
Acer Predator 17 G9-791 features two Toshiba 128GB M.2 SSD. Build 256GB SSD Raid 0, it can give users a faster application response speed and data read speed.
The Predator G9-791 features an HGST 1TB 7200RPM hard drive, SATA 6.0Gb/s.
Pry up and remove the bottom case, there are some snaps fixed the bottom case, be careful, do not damage the snaps.
Under the bottom case, you can access the battery, wireless card, speakers, heatsink/fan assembly and motherboard.
Predator 17 G9-791 comes with a 14.8v, 6000mah/88.8wh Li-ion battery, Acer part number: AS15B3N.
Remove four screws securing the cooling fan.
Disconnect two cooling fan cables from the motherboard.
Loosen six screws securing the heat sink.
CPU and GPU cooling fan
Dual copper pipe heat sink
Acer Predator 17 G9-791 motherboard
There are two RAM slots on the back side of the motherboard, comes with two SK Hynix 8GB PC4-2133P, DDR4-2133MHz RAM.
Acer Predator 17 G9-791 has four RAM slots, support up to 32GB RAM.
SK Hynix 8GB PC4-2133P, DDR4-2133MHz RAM
Qualcomm Atheros QCNFA364A wireless card with Bluetooth 4.0, it is support for 802.11ac Wi-Fi and 2×2 MU-MIMO technology (Dual-Band 2.4GHz and 5GHz).
Blue: GST5009 LF Network Transformer.
Blue: Parade HDMI HD converter chip.
Red: Intel Core i7-6700HQ Quad Core Processor 2.6GHz.
Blue: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M with 4 GB of dedicated GDDR5 VRAM.
Orange: Samsung 4GB GDDR5 graphics memory.
Purple: South Bridge chip.
Red: ITE IT8587E FXA I/O chip.
Blue: Realtek ALC255 sound card chip.
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