November 2011 – BEERCAFE

DELL 1564 – step by step how to open and clean cooling fan duct

My Dell 1564 Laptop.here you will find how to open it by seeing photos, I think you should at least have done some electronic stuff before to do this,because some cabales are delicate and you may break them,although i will try to explain as much as I can and have time for that.

the first view is the bottom view:

As you see I have indicated screws by 3 different type of circles : red ,green and red-green

The 3 red circles shows the first place you have to open , the RED-GREEN circle indicate the screw which you shoul open to take DVD-ROM/W out when you open this screw takeing DVD rom out is easy do not use force!! it will easily slide out.

so steps :

0- take the battery out!!

1-first 3 red screws ,

2-Red-Green screw for DVD rom,

The othe suggestion that I do is to put every type of screw you take out in a certain position and write a note for them.

3-I prefer to remove HDD to avoid any damage

In the photo you can see red rectangles in which the smaller one indicated the position of pins which you have to pull out – but how easily do this :

you place your screw driver where the head od arrow indicating(two sided screw driver) and rotate it abit easy not hard!! and you will see that the pins are getting out of socket, so remove the HDD.

how it will look like ,also consider the red arrows for later openings4-Now It is the time to open all green screws plus the ones in the last photo plus these three where dvd-rom was located

5-remove this part that you see white lines around because the power botton is connectet to this part when you are opening it take care not to pull it to much you should disconnect the cable from socket number 1 which is shown in second following phot

6-after that as you see in the photo above you will open keyboard screws then you have to detach the cables in the green rectangles in the big one you pull the white part up and the lock will be open and in the small one you should do the same but with black part when you are assembling the laptop again you should take care to insert cables throughly complete to avoid another openings!!

7- the you will remove th keyboard and you will face the following scene 🙂 in which you again have to open these screws shown

8-almost every thing done now so you will pull out this front side and will see every thing there and there you can open fan and clean or do what ever you want