Difficulty

Moderate

Steps

12

Time Required

                          15 minutes

Sections

3

  • Battery
  • 2 steps
  • Keyboard
  • 7 steps
  • Hard Drive
  • 3 steps

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Introduction

What you need

Step 1

              Battery
  • Turn the computer over on its back so the battery compartment faces towards you.
  • Place your fingers on the small buttons with arrows pointing outwards.
  • Push and slide the buttons outward to unlock the battery compartment.

Turn the computer over on its back so the battery compartment faces towards you.

Place your fingers on the small buttons with arrows pointing outwards.

Push and slide the buttons outward to unlock the battery compartment.

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Step 2

  • Grab the battery and pull it towards yourself.
  • Remove the battery.

Grab the battery and pull it towards yourself.

Remove the battery.

Step 3

              Keyboard
  • Use a Phillips #0 screwdriver to unscrew the sixteen 0.6 mm screws on the back panel.

Use a Phillips #0 screwdriver to unscrew the sixteen 0.6 mm screws on the back panel.

Step 4

  • Flip over the laptop and open it so that the screen faces you.

Flip over the laptop and open it so that the screen faces you.

Step 5

  • Use the plastic opening tool and your fingers to pry off the top panel.
  • Pry the panel off starting at any one of the corners and then continue around the edges of the computer.

Use the plastic opening tool and your fingers to pry off the top panel.

Pry the panel off starting at any one of the corners and then continue around the edges of the computer.

Step 6

  • Be careful when lifting off the keyboard panel. There are multiple delicate cables connecting the panel to the motherboard.
  • Pull up on the blue plastic tab connected by the white strip to unhook the keyboard panel from the motherboard.

Be careful when lifting off the keyboard panel. There are multiple delicate cables connecting the panel to the motherboard.

Pull up on the blue plastic tab connected by the white strip to unhook the keyboard panel from the motherboard.

Step 7

  • Flip up the small locking flap on the keyboard cable ZIF socket and disconnect the keyboard ribbon cable.

Flip up the small locking flap on the keyboard cable ZIF socket and disconnect the keyboard ribbon cable.

Step 8

  • Pull up on the wire tab with the blue, white, black, and red wires to detach the speakers from the motherboard.

Pull up on the wire tab with the blue, white, black, and red wires to detach the speakers from the motherboard.

Step 9

  • Remove the top keyboard panel.

Remove the top keyboard panel.

Step 10

              Hard Drive
  • Position your fingers on two sides of the hard drive in the bottom right corner of the computer.

Position your fingers on two sides of the hard drive in the bottom right corner of the computer.

Step 11

  • Firmly push and slide the hard drive toward the right side of the laptop.

Firmly push and slide the hard drive toward the right side of the laptop.

Step 12

  • Lift and remove the hard drive from the laptop.

Lift and remove the hard drive from the laptop.

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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Charles Mott - Nov 30, 2016

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It is better and easier to take the keyboard out first to enable safe removal and fitting of the keyboard ribbon cables, Lever panel out once screws are removed as described above. However thanks for the pointers!

James Sanders - Jan 2, 2017

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The connector in step 7 is actually the connector for the speakers. The keyboard connector is the long white one with the brownish top which appears to be open in the photo. The keyboard cable is a flat wide cable that fits in the connector. In the photograph the keyboard cable has already been removed.

morsemichaelh@gmail.com - Dec 7, 2020

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I want to repeat what Charles Mott said. The proper way to do this is to unclip the keyboard providing easy access to all the cable connections. The people that say Dell designed this poorly don’t know they can just unclip the keyboard (three little tabs).