Lenovo Thinkpad T580 | How to Service, Upgrade & Fix Laptop (Teardown)

How to teardown your Lenovo Thinkpad T580 (2018) and perform basic upgrades, fixes and repairs.
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[AlesBerka]

If you are having troubles prying the cover at 1:10 or opening it at 1:15, check for rubber cover on docking port next to USB-C/Thunderbolt. Remove it, if it is there. It did the trick for me.
Regarding 2nd drive - according to many, it should be possible. M.2 2242 NVMe (not SATA!) SSD can be connected to WWAN m.2 port and fits the room.

[seancsnm]

In regards to hard drive questions: There is a single 2.5 inch drive bay, and in that space you can either have a SATA drive or an NVME drive. However, the NVME drive requires an adapter and separate cable (as shown in this video).

The WWAN M.2 2242 slot can support an SSD as well, but it must be an M.2 2242 PCIe drive - 2242 SATA drives apparently do not work in this slot. Currently, there are very few 2242 PCIe drives on the market (could not find any on amazon or newegg in the US). The LITE-ON T11 256G drive is compatible, but can only be purchased direct from China and is a bit pricey.

[jonathanbyers]

Crystal clear video, I can see all part numbers etc. Cant hear you though

[alchemist]

Excellent Info. So the 2.5" / M.2 are in the same spot. So if you bought it with the base 500gb drive you likely wouldn't have the nvme try additions for putting in a nvme drive yourself. Why would they make a 15" notebook and only have a single fan. That likely explains the performance fall off after the first time running Cinebench. It likely heats up.

[Induraj]

does this SSD tray you show in the video supports crucial P5 NVME M.2? or just M.2 sata SSD

[mmicker]

I have had several service calls on this model where the user has installed the HDD tray upside down causing the HDD to not be visible. Cable is not keyed so essentially the connection to the adapter card is reversed.

[reaverclan]

Thanks, HWM did not say they were clips I assumed it was like a simple lift up. Had to get the pick out to pop them off cleanly.

[wrends]

i have the same model, i'm getting poor cooling with this single-pipe cooling heatsink assembly so i'm thinking to upgrade this part soon....

[rogerelder]

Guessing you turned the internal battery off in the bios first?

[sergeyzinovkin]

Nice gloves, nice antistatic wrist wraps BUT why havent you unplugged internal battery? Not a good practice for a service engineer. But still thank you very much, video is very usefull! Thank you

[SamA-cyeu]

This laptop would be perfect if they'd put in
a secondary full size 2280 m.2 slot since 2242 drives are difficult to find and expensive
a dvd drive bay so you can swap it in future for an additional hard drive
a backlit keyboard as standard equipment
and remove the useless internal battery since this laptop supports external batteries and resume from hibernate takes less than a second on NVME ssd drives

[maxfactor]

the hard disk conneciton to MB is not PCIe 4x. it is just simple sata 3 which spoils the whole point of NVME

[Juwon]

Wow it looks like the laptop-case design is wrong, why did they put m.2 ssd in 2.5inch slot instead of on the mainboard? They could add more battery space.

[johngembka]

A discrete 2GB NVIDIA graphics card is available on models with either the 8350U or 8650U processor. Is it possible to upgrade the graphics card?

[deadblast]

Is it possible to add a both 1TB HDD and 256 SSD hard drives in this model ?

[AmyJoyceWingDesigns]

Do you have one of these videos on the E580 and how to open the back to find and reconnect an Ethernet adapter which is not connected to the computer right now? This is my last option and if it's broken I need to have it fixed.

[alltagsnutzen]

Perfect and very helpful for me. Thank you very much.

[somanyVideo]

I needed to get the lid off. Thank you. I don't think you can put in extra hard drives.

[markm]

can you link your toolset? In the market for a new one, looking for a quality replacement.

[yisoo]

is it possible to exchange my FHD touch display for a non touch FHD display? i already have the display cable for the non touch, it does fit on the motherboard connector but obviously not on my currently broken touch display. i cant really find replacement touch displays, or they are just expensive + non touch is way cheaper and i dont need touch