8 August 2009

Disassembling Inspiron Laptop

On a weekend (2 months back I guess) I didn't know what to do :) and I decided to disassemble my laptop. Here is the guide. Mine is Dell Inspiron 1420.





First remove the battery pack from the system.

Before disassembling, identify the important parts of the system.
1. Battery
2. CPU Fan

3. RAM
4. Hard disk
The nice thing here is that if we want to upgrade one specific part, we can do it without touching other parts. For example, if we want to upgrade the hard disk we can just remove screws shown in part 4.
We have to start disassembling from front side. First time I started from backside and I couldn't continue further. As shown in figure, pull the highlighted part and you can able to remove the entire frame (including the frame that has power button).

The next step is to remove the keyboard.
Be careful while removing the keyboard. Back side there will be a connection to mother board.
After removing the screws, pull it up and remove the connection to the motherboard.

Remove this connector and keyboard will be disconnected from the rest of the system.

Next step is to remove the monitor. First remove the supported cups (1 and 2 in figure). Just pull them off by holding the thick edge.

Remove the connection to monitor (4 in above figure)


Now the hard part comes. Remove the wifi cables. Be patient while remvoing. Here, reassembling takes more time than disassembling.
We have removed all the connections to the monitor.

Now remove the rest of screws and you are set.

12 comments:

  1. Cool! What happens to the warranty?
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  2. himmm, finally posted it!!! Good job dude.
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  3. he he. My laptop warranty was over :). If yours is under warranty you should not try this.
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  4. yes chethan. Its in draft form for over a month :)
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  5. thank you so much for posting this! I've been searching for a way to disassemble my Inspiron 1420, too. I wanted to fix my fan noise, and I'm out of warranty as well.
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    1. did you just fasten the fan somehow?
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  6. Good to know that it helped you kristina.
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  7. Hi Sai... I'm having an issue with my inspiron 1420 (which I thought related to the GPU issue, but now I'm wondering...). I was just wondering if you purchased your 1420 in India, and if so, are you aware of any Dell repair/service centers located in India?

    If you could please contact me at matcha20@gmail.com I would really appreciate it.

    Awesome tutorial, btw.

    -Himmat
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  8. Good tutoial. Can you make a video of it???
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  9. oh.
    eh, my sister's model also this 1420. but it now having a prob of sometimes blackout screen and sometimes is ok.
    when i go to the shop, the tech guy said it's the display chipset is faulty. but then i ask him back why sometimes it is working fine?. he can't answer me. All he said is that he is gonna charge 250 for that repair (by repair he means he will juz change the display chipset from the motherboard). But he also can't guarantee that it will fix the prob, and he only offer 1 month waranty after repair. He said this model always having this type of prob. Can anyone please teach me how to do?
    email me at woody_hwtan@hotmail.com if u have any ideas. thanks. i will thank u personnally~
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  10. How about other Models? For example Acer Laptop.
    Where does a person go to find motherboards?
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