Best tutorial I've seen in a while! I just bought one of these refurbished and I wanted to tear it open to see how everything looked on the inside, and thanks to you I didn't even scratch it or break anything lol thanks for sharing!
Thank you for putting up the full process to remove this fan. The level of detail and the highlighting used in the video to illustrate where things are is fantastic!
Notes from my experience: 1. There are 9 palmrest screws. One of them is longer than the others. It is the one nearest the fan. 2. @0:57 "Remove the keyboard cable," my machine had a second, smaller cable that needed to be removed. 3. @1:40 "Remove the keyboard bezel," the bezel's hooks are on the outer rim, so twisting the bezel a little away from the outer rim helps remove it. You can see him do this in the video. See note below about replacing it. 4. @2:52 "Unplug the palmrest cables," my machine had two cables where the video here shows one. Both should be disconnected. Reassembling: 5. Replacing the palmrest: do this carefully. Note the plastic barbs and note where they go on the chassis. 6. Replacing the keyboard bezel: there are small tabs on the outer rim that need to go underneath the metal frame. Also note the tab by the power switch that must go under the frame. The symptom that this is assembled wrong is that the lid will not stay down all the way. Also, the bexel's barbs can get bent into a curved shape and not go in to their holes. They should be vertical, not curved. I had to straighten mine.
Best tutorial I've seen in a while! I just bought one of these refurbished and I wanted to tear it open to see how everything looked on the inside, and thanks to you I didn't even scratch it or break anything lol thanks for sharing!
Thank you for putting up the full process to remove this fan. The level of detail and the highlighting used in the video to illustrate where things are is fantastic!
I just replace the fan for E7240 with this tutorials to the POINT. Good Job!!
Notes from my experience:
1. There are 9 palmrest screws. One of them is longer than the others. It is the one nearest the fan.
2. @0:57 "Remove the keyboard cable," my machine had a second, smaller cable that needed to be removed.
3. @1:40 "Remove the keyboard bezel," the bezel's hooks are on the outer rim, so twisting the bezel a little away from the outer rim helps remove it. You can see him do this in the video. See note below about replacing it.
4. @2:52 "Unplug the palmrest cables," my machine had two cables where the video here shows one. Both should be disconnected.
Reassembling:
5. Replacing the palmrest: do this carefully. Note the plastic barbs and note where they go on the chassis.
6. Replacing the keyboard bezel: there are small tabs on the outer rim that need to go underneath the metal frame. Also note the tab by the power switch that must go under the frame. The symptom that this is assembled wrong is that the lid will not stay down all the way. Also, the bexel's barbs can get bent into a curved shape and not go in to their holes. They should be vertical, not curved. I had to straighten mine.
Thanks for the tutorial. It was very clear and precise.
Thank you, this is a very clear tutorial. Much appreciated!
Thank you so much, super tutorial, very detail and straightforward, Keep the good work!
I did this by my own, I have no laptop anymore
Thank you. Just used it to replace my fan!
i have a fan problem for the e7250 variant, is the fan designs of both laptops identical?
I can't confirm unfortunately. They appear similar but have different parts numbers.
very very much appreciated for you....... thanks alot
great videp thanks
Dell used to have HTML guides for this sort of thing, but I can't find them anymore. This video fills a void.
We got your back, Norm.
I open it but now i can't assemble it please help
thank you
great video
thanks.
I found this video to be hilarious. It belongs on Saturday night live.
Remove the screws
You didn't mention the additional keyboard screw on the back by the fan. Almost made me destroy a laptop. Everything else is helpful though.
0/10 ripped the battery ribbon, totally not my fault.
What a stupid design. Need to disassemble the whole laptop just to remove the fan. What was Dell thinking.
Probably, "we'll sell them a new laptop when the fan bearing goes bad."