Surface Studio 2.5" Hard Drive or Fans Replacement

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Do you want a bigger hard drive or a second SSD? Follow this guide to replace your hard drive. 1/10/24 Edit: If your Studio is noisy, but the computer is operating fine, replace your fans first; they are available on Amazon, eBay, etc.

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Adım 1 2.5" Hard Drive and/or Cooling Fans (2)

Surface Studio 2.5" Hard Drive or Fans Replacement, 2.5" Hard Drive and/or Cooling Fans (2): adım 1, 3 resimden 1.

Surface Studio 2.5" Hard Drive or Fans Replacement, 2.5" Hard Drive and/or Cooling Fans (2): adım 1, 3 resimden 2.

Surface Studio 2.5" Hard Drive or Fans Replacement, 2.5" Hard Drive and/or Cooling Fans (2): adım 1, 3 resimden 3.

Lay the Surface face down on a padded surface
Be careful not to scratch the screen when laying it face down
Remove the four rubber feet at each corner concealing the Torx screws
Remove the four Torx screws under the rubber feet.
Two screws on the upper corners are longer than two screws on the lower corners.
Attach suction cups to the bottom cover and then pull on the suction cups to free the bottom cover.

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Adım 2

Remove five torx screws holding the two fans to the midframe
Remove the two fans
The fan connectors are behind the midframe and not yet accessible. Let the fans hang loosely until you can access the connectors.
Four large torx screws and four small torx screws hold the midframe to the upper frame.
Remove four large torx screws holding the midframe
Remove four small torx screws holding the midframe. Note: The 4th blue circle is missing in the picture and is above the far right green circle. In line with the second red circle and below the GPU heat sink.

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Adım 3

Slowly remove the midframe
Be careful: the speaker on the midframe is still attached to the motherboard
Detach the connectors for the two fans and the speaker

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Adım 4

Surface Studio 2.5" Hard Drive or Fans Replacement: adım 4, 3 resimden 3.

With the midframe removed, it is also possible to replace the M.2 SSD during this step
The hard drive is underneath the heatsink so the heatsink must be removed
Fully loosen (they don't come out) the four spring loaded torx screws labeled 1 to 4;
Remove three torx screw labeled 5 to 7
Remove 5mm hex mounting post
Use a spudger to remove the heatsink assembly from the motherboard

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Adım 5

Surface Studio 2.5" Hard Drive or Fans Replacement: adım 5, 3 resimden 3.

Remove three torx screws holding the hard drive brackets
Remove 5mm hex mounting post
Remove the hard drive and disconnect the SATA/SATA power cable
Remove four torx screws holding the hard drive brackets to the hard drive
On reassembly, be sure to clean the CPU and GPU and heat sink and reapply thermal compound to the CPU and GPU