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Re: Co I really have to take off the display, the lid?

From Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.laptops, alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject Re: Co I really have to take off the display, the lid?
Date 2020-10-11 08:07 -0700
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On 10/11/2020 7:21 AM, Big Al wrote:
> On 10/11/20 9:26 AM, this is what micky wrote:
>> In comp.sys.laptops, on Sun, 11 Oct 2020 07:23:58 -0400, Bill
>> <WhoKnows@newsguy.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> micky wrote:
>>>> In order to open my laptop and replace the fan, do I really have to take
>>>> off the display, the lid?
>>>>
>>>> It's a Dell Latitude E4300.
>>>>
>>>> The Dell service manual says to do this, but I find it hard to believe.
>>>> It looks like the Palm Rest is easy to slip from under the display. Only
>>>> 5mm. are under it and the empty space above the palm rest is 2 or 3 mm.
>>>>
>>>> I know I can wait and figure it out when the time comes, but I  ike to
>>>> plan ahead.   And know how much time to allot.
>>>
>>> You've had a lot of trouble with laptop fans going bad?
>> 
>> It's just this one, but I've dragged it out for months.
>> 
>> But like my mother used to say when she asked a  store to do something,
>> It makes jobs for people.  If they didn't have things to do, they
>> woudln't get hired.
>> 
>> And if I didn't ask questions, people here coudln't answer them.
>> 
>>> I'd just make
>>> sure you have 2 devices (of some sort) and it won't matter how much time
>>> it takes.  Also, perform backups. Then, you're invincible!  : )
>> 
>> Yes, unless I can't get the laptop back together again.    The hardest
>> part seems to be the display  It has connectors and wires that have to
>> be snaked through the right hole.   I still  think it's unnecesary, and
>> I'll try to do the job without taking the displlay off, though that
>> means taking a big bunch of screws out out of order, compared to the
>> order they recommend. .
>> 
>> Even the bottom part has 7 different connectors that have to be
>> disconnected and then connected.   That might be easy but maybe not. .
>> 
>> I think tht's only happened once in the last 30 years, and it was not
>> electronic.  It was an upside down jig saw one on the left and a
>> grindstone on the right.   I toook it apart, fiixed it, but could never
>> get it back together again.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Some random guy on the web for some other Dell laptop  also says he had
>>>> to remove his display.   OTOH, a video of someone cleaning the fan on
>>>> the E4310 shows him taking off every cover on the bottom of it.  I think
>>>> some people just like to take everything apart.  ;-)
>>>>
>> 
> Got a smart phone?  Take photos, plenty of them.  It can sometimes help to reassemble.


Excellent suggestion, but he doesn't have to use a smart phnoe to take 
photos. Some of use (me, for example) prefer to use camera for that.



-- 
Ken

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Co I really have to take off the display, the lid? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2020-10-11 06:07 -0400
  Re: Co I really have to take off the display, the lid? Bill <WhoKnows@newsguy.net> - 2020-10-11 07:23 -0400
    Re: Co I really have to take off the display, the lid? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2020-10-11 09:26 -0400
      Re: Co I really have to take off the display, the lid? Big Al <Big_Al@invalid.com> - 2020-10-11 10:21 -0400
        Re: Co I really have to take off the display, the lid? Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> - 2020-10-11 08:07 -0700
          Re: Co I really have to take off the display, the lid? Big Al <Big_Al@invalid.com> - 2020-10-11 11:11 -0400
            Re: Co I really have to take off the display, the lid? Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> - 2020-10-11 13:28 -0700
              Re: Co I really have to take off the display, the lid? Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2020-10-12 00:07 -0500
                Re: Co I really have to take off the display, the lid? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2020-10-12 02:55 -0400
        Re: Co I really have to take off the display, the lid? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2020-10-12 12:55 +0000
  Re: Co I really have to take off the display, the lid? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2020-10-11 08:19 -0400
    Re: Co I really have to take off the display, the lid? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2020-10-11 10:24 -0400
      Re: Co I really have to take off the display, the lid? Rene Lamontagne <rlamont@shaw.ca> - 2020-10-11 10:30 -0500
      Re: Co I really have to take off the display, the lid? Bill <WhoKnows@newsguy.net> - 2020-10-11 23:28 -0400
      Re: Co I really have to take off the display, the lid? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2020-10-12 01:16 -0400
        Re: Co I really have to take off the display, the lid? Rene Lamontagne <rlamont@shaw.ca> - 2020-10-12 12:54 -0500
          Re: Co I really have to take off the display, the lid? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2020-10-12 21:33 -0400
            Re: Co I really have to take off the display, the lid? Rene Lamontagne <rlamont@shaw.ca> - 2020-10-13 01:48 -0500
  Re: Co I really have to take off the display, the lid? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2020-10-11 09:53 -0500
    Re: Co I really have to take off the display, the lid? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2020-10-11 21:35 -0400
      Re: Co I really have to take off the display, the lid? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2020-10-11 20:42 -0500
  Re: Co I really have to take off the display, the lid? Patrick <Patrick@invalid.invalid> - 2020-10-11 15:56 +0100
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