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.

8 comments:

Prashanth Ellina said...

Cool! What happens to the warranty?

Chethan Bandi said...

himmm, finally posted it!!! Good job dude.

Sai Rahul said...

he he. My laptop warranty was over :). If yours is under warranty you should not try this.

Sai Rahul said...

yes chethan. Its in draft form for over a month :)

Kristina Obediente said...

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.

Sai Rahul said...

Good to know that it helped you kristina.

Matt said...

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

Utsav said...

Good tutoial. Can you make a video of it???

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