Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ken Blake Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: Re: Co I really have to take off the display, the lid? Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 08:07:14 -0700 Lines: 64 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net PZeDRyRkkcYniskG2qFkNgUIN7SszGINM+OEAyiOiA/vW8wO+L Cancel-Lock: sha1:VTNAofWMSAOmH47bwV8RygH7+wE= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.1 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.laptops:2542 alt.comp.os.windows-10:123309 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 >> 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