Disassembly

Summary

The Librem 14 is deliberately made easy to repair and upgrade. By removing just a few screws, you can easily replace the battery, WiFi module, RAM, or the m.2 SSD. This is really nice if you already own hardware you’d like to put in a barebones Librem 14 order, or if you want to upgrade the hardware in your current Librem 14.

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Internals

L14 internals

Mainboard

Top:

L14 mainboard top

Bottom:

L14 mainboard bottom

EC firmware and BIOS flash chip locations. The EC flash is on the left; the BIOS is on the right:

L14 EC firmware and BIOS locations

Battery connector pinout:

L14 EC firmware and BIOS locations

Screws

The bottom (D-shell) screws are: Philips cross, flat head, M2x4