Why, when I want to do any jobs like this one, do I ALWAYS look for a British guy to cut to the chase and take me through the work in a quiet workman like manner. No 'Hi guys, what's up guys' just a calm confident voice. Many thanks.

Thanks for this video. I am an IT-tech myself and did not actually spend any time on the B50-50 after seeing this video (was just upgrading my kids old computers today). Just finished they B50 and that was a completely other computer! Shocked about how different the B50 and the B50-50 was. I bought these two computers a year apart. Have opened many computers, the only one that was almost this bad was one of the old Fujitsu models.

Absolutely superb video. Very well filmed and put together. What an absolute pain this laptop is. I have dismantled some tricky laptops in my time, but this one is awful. I did decide to gently warm the keyboard area with a heat gun (very carefully and from a good distance) to try and loosen the glue slightly. I am not sure how much it helped, but its something to consider. I needed to replace the battery on this one and found that the connector on the replacement did not want to go back in the socket. In the end I plugged and unplugged the old one a few times to try to loosen the socket up a little, and then plugged the new battery in directly, (ie before reassembly) a few times until it would go in smoothly. Thanks for making the video, its one of the best laptop disassembly videos I have ever seen.

Seven years after, it helped me to repair the computer of a friend. Thanks ! ;)

Many thanks for your excellent vid. Why is it I trust the UK guys on these technical tuts over the Yanks with their 'Yo Bro what up' and asking if I'm having a great day? Just get on with it as this guy has done. Nice and calm and intuitive.

you've helped one of my pupils to get his computer fixed up. many thanks! now to get the drive cloned - will be difficult as it seems something on the partition is propietary.

Thanks for this as I was given one of these to repair and although I've been repairing laptops for years, this one baffled me at first. I have never seen such a poorly designed machine for accessibility. Stripping out the keyboard and removing the case to change a battery !!! ... I'm truly cured of Lenovo forever. Cheers for your video though, it helped greatly.

This is really helpful thanks! - Of all the Lenovo laptop models I have ever worked on this has to be the biggest pain. Also having to remove the best part of 20 screws to upgrade the ram / hard disk is a joke. Why is the battery not removable with out dismantling the whole thing!

Thanks man! Saved me a lot of trouble today! That case is a nightmare. Harddisk and RAM should be easily accessable.

Top video thank you - don't you just love the screws under the keyboard faff - I took the screw out underneath then tried to pull the dvd drive out and broke the front plate off it as the screw underneath in the normal place wasn't holding the drive in!! All done and upgraded now thanks again for great tutorial

Excellent work. Clear visuals and precise helpful audio commentary. Thank you :)

You're a lifesaver. Everything went smoothly, thank you so much.

Glad I watched this with the keyboard glue - much appreciated :-))

The best video i have seen, you speak only the necesary yo explain all the process. Thanks from Spain.

Very helpful! I strip many laptops in our shop but was doubtful about the rigid keyboard (is there a hidden screw?, I thought) until I saw the semi-adhesive strips in your video. I find an old credit card splits the case effectively, and it helped unstick the keyboard, too. I checked the fan/heatsink, just 2+2 screws to undo, and removed a whopping dust plug from the fan/radiator interface (this lady needs to hoover more!) so do look while you're there. I used fresh heatsink paste but there was enough original overspill to redistribute at a pinch. The duff hard drive was evidenced by repeated boot-looping as the unhappy BIOS sought a network boot. Using a Linux-loaded USB flash drive, I booted straight to Linux desktop and confirmed the Toshiba drive wasn't mountable. It later proved u/s, so an SSD went in. The original RAM is a measly 4GB in the one slot-I popped in an 8GB instead. An SSD, and more RAM, noticeably brighten this i3's performance.

Thank you, I have one brand new right here and I'm going to send it back to the dealer. And to remove Lenovo from my list. I heard that Asus have welded their DIMMs so the list is going to be short.

nice one! Great video! Before i looked i couldn't figure out why the back cover wouldn't come off!! Not sure why they made it so complicated!

Thanks very much for this. Excellent video and very clear and precise instructions. Would have been lost without it and ended up with a broken lap top. Thanks again 👍🏼

Thank you, i really needed this.

Thanks for this. I've opened hundreds of laptops, but couldn't work out why the keyboard wasn't coming off. Screws and plastic welds im used to, but tape strips? Ugh.

You saved my life toniiiiiight!!!!

Thanks for making this, man this is a stupid design. Upgrading the harddrive shouldn't be this hard, or void the warranty... Anyhoo, thanks again for making this video!

I've just dismantled one of these due to a failing HDD... it's by no doubt the cheapest, nastiest laptop I've ever come across... it's obviously been designed as a cheap disposable device! P.S. Regularly check all the screws on the base are all tight as they like to come loose and fall out, especially the ones that secure the screen hinges.

Thanks a lot friend!

Thank you very much! It's super!!!

thanks , i managed thank you

Your video'll help me to change the battery but I have one question: Is there an extra slot for add other 4gb of RAM? Or the only way is change the 4gb and put 8gb?

Thanks for the video but what exact type of screwdriver do you use? I have trouble removing the screws

Thanks, very easy with your help :-)

Thanks

Thanks for your video, it helps me a lot! I replaced the hdd against a ssd and after first start up, there is a system password required. Where can I get this?! Thanks for your help!

Hey, Great Video!! However, I just cant seem to get the keyboard to go back in the hinge connector. its lined up straight and all the way in as far as it can go but still it wont clip shut. What can I do ? Thanks

A really bullshit laptop. You have to dissasemble the whole laptop for a single RAM upgrade. This is a dissapointment

Hi, thanks for video. So if i don't remove the keyboard i can't open laptop ?

i'm a computer engineer and find it really annoying how on some laptops you have to disassemble the whole computer to get to the bloody thing, yet with some laptops, most notably older laptops it's simply two screws, flick open a bottom tray cover and voila. Would be nice if all manufacturers made it that easy to get the hard drive in and out. At the moment I've got a corrupt volume on C: and NOTHING works, Windows 10 repair, cmd prompt, nothing wants to see the C: drive so I've got to back up and that means having to go through all this palava on my customer's laptop!

nice job, I've only a question... How many RAM slots have the Lenovo B50-50?

Thank you for an informative video, but what a pallover just to change the battery. Lenovo need to change their design.

Icannotgetafreename: This is the model 80S2, which is just one of the many series they've made. For example the B50-50 80S2000LMH is a i5 processor and an older model. I guess you have the 80S2003 series? Just wondering.

Amazing,,,, thanks.....

do i have to remove keyboard too or not needed to open?

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god I hate this laptop, trying to replace the battery is a nightmare

Merci

So to remove the back lid I’m forced to remove the keyboard

Its funny to see how repair unfriendly Lenovo has become... Back in a day when T series were the kings Hard drive was held by a single screw... :(

i have a Lenovo B50 laptop and its stuck in bios when i turn it on, the problem is when i go into the bios and try to change boot order to CD,or USB it wont change and if i pick Default it goes off and stays off with the power light on, iv taken the cmos battery out and replaced it, iv went through all the settings in the bios, iv taken the ssd out, the ram out,main battery out, its stuck in a loop, is there any one can HELP! please

Why do you need to take the keyboard off I don’t get it?

Thanks so much!

which ssd model you used

Is it possible to assembly a 12.5mm hdd?

Can put secend ram or no?

En français

I doubted the keyboard woulid have to be removed, but holy crap this is a badly designed laptop. They must have gone out of their way for such a stupid design.

Tragic design

It's a shit design to be fair, I don't consider this professional Level kit. Memory, HD's, Wireless cards should all be behind 1 screw compartments