Re: [H] Installing 600m Cover Assembly
Same is true of my Inspiron 8200/Latitude C840 & Dell's support docs. Everything I needed to disassemble less the handy black plastic "case cracker" stylus they send w/ repair kits. Have had my notebook apart WAAAYYY to many times these past 6 years! Hunter, Gary wrote: Last time I took a laptop to bits (back in 2002), it was an old Dell Inspiron 5000, Dell had all the instructions for assembly/disassembly on their web site. It was very easy with the instructions. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of GPL Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:16 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Installing 600m Cover Assembly I've done the research and discovered the "Control Power Button Cover Assembly" is the part that is broken on my Inspiron 600m old laptop. Anyone ever take one of these apart and put them together?
Re: [H] Installing 600m Cover Assembly
Last time I took a laptop to bits (back in 2002), it was an old Dell Inspiron 5000, Dell had all the instructions for assembly/disassembly on their web site. It was very easy with the instructions. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of GPL Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:16 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Installing 600m Cover Assembly I've done the research and discovered the "Control Power Button Cover Assembly" is the part that is broken on my Inspiron 600m old laptop. Anyone ever take one of these apart and put them together? I've worked on many a PC tower but nothing really on laptops. Its broken on the left hinge where there are two screws now exposed and broken plastic. All still works but the LCD is not very stable and looks lousy. Am I supposed to completely open the laptop to get at this area or is there an easier path to replacing this cover assembly? Pictures available upon request. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, please notify the sender and delete all copies immediately. The sender believes this message and any attachments were sent free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and other forms of malicious code. This message and its attachments could have been infected during transmission. The recipient opens any attachments at the recipient's own risk, and in so doing, the recipient accepts full responsibility for such actions and agrees to take protective and remedial action relating to any malicious code. Travelport is not liable for any loss or damage arising from this message or its attachments.
Re: [H] Installing 600m Cover Assembly
A couple weeks ago my dad dropped his Inspiron and the screen cracked. Luckily my sister had an identical model Inspiron that was no longer being used (mangled keyboard amongst other things--don't ask!). I ended up taking my dad's keyboard+hdd+ram from his laptop and replacing them on my sister's laptop. With some help from a friend who had opened up his dell before, it wasn't too bad at all (and did not involve a huge amount of disassembly). I don't know what model inspiron this is, so I don't know similar this will be, but anyway: Above the keyboard -- where the power button, power+wifi+hdd activity lights, etc are--there is a piece of plastic that runs the width of the laptop. It sounds like this is maybe the cover assembly piece you're talking about? I unfortunately threw the old one out just a week or two ago, but that piece is easy to get off. It took a little bit of forcing--on this model, it hooks into the left side of the laptop, and if you look at where the plastic piece ends on the right side of the laptop, there is a small notch that you can use to pry the plastic piece up. That's it! Assuming you can get a replacement, it should be easy to do. Having said that, On this partially diassembled (and screen cracked) Inspiron, the screen is relatively stable still--it does have a LITTLE give in it (wiggles maybe 1/2 an inch?). The good news is, once you get that piece off, you can take the keyboard off as well, and can fully take off the screen if you want--shouldn't be more complicated than that. Scott On Oct 13, 2009, at 12:15 PM, GPL wrote: I've done the research and discovered the "Control Power Button Cover Assembly" is the part that is broken on my Inspiron 600m old laptop. Anyone ever take one of these apart and put them together? I've worked on many a PC tower but nothing really on laptops. Its broken on the left hinge where there are two screws now exposed and broken plastic. All still works but the LCD is not very stable and looks lousy. Am I supposed to completely open the laptop to get at this area or is there an easier path to replacing this cover assembly? Pictures available upon request.
Re: [H] Installing 600m Cover Assembly
Don't know about the Inspirons specifically, but I've been using IBM laptops since like 2004 or so, and once I went from a T23 to a T41/42, I had issues with the T42 and had to open it up...I was pretty trepidatious but it wasn't that bad (and I did it without manuals too! :P). One of the key reasons for my concern was all the different-sized screws that went in different holes you had to keep track of... So what I did though was get a big flat table and make sure to mirror the screw placement on the bottom of the laptop onto the table so I knew where the screws went later-obviously if you have the manual it's a little easier (but this might still be an issue), but doing this makes it a little less worrisome. Heh, just had an idea which I have yet to implement myself-get some double-sided tape and put it down on the table and that'll keep your screws from running away or getting out of order if you, or someone "accidentally" bumps the table; which trust me, does happen more often than you'd think! And it depends-I ended up opening my roommate's big 17" Dell XPS desktop replacement laptop and one nice thing they did was that all the screws were the same size so you didn't have to keep track of which ones went where; a real nice feature that makes it a lot easier to do this. And once you open it, the only thing to note is that the keyboard and mouse/trackpad will be attached with a connector that you should be careful in removing; other than that it'll be pretty straightforward to mess around inside. Oh, and just to note, it got to the point that I basically completely disassembled my laptop and actually swapped the LCD screen on my T42 with one from another unit so I wouldn't have to reinstall onto a new laptop! :P And that wasn't that bad; just more screws to remove and keep track of! Good luck, and report back on how it goes. BINO -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of GPL Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 9:16 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Installing 600m Cover Assembly I've done the research and discovered the "Control Power Button Cover Assembly" is the part that is broken on my Inspiron 600m old laptop. Anyone ever take one of these apart and put them together? I've worked on many a PC tower but nothing really on laptops. Its broken on the left hinge where there are two screws now exposed and broken plastic. All still works but the LCD is not very stable and looks lousy. Am I supposed to completely open the laptop to get at this area or is there an easier path to replacing this cover assembly? Pictures available upon request.
[H] Installing 600m Cover Assembly
I've done the research and discovered the "Control Power Button Cover Assembly" is the part that is broken on my Inspiron 600m old laptop. Anyone ever take one of these apart and put them together? I've worked on many a PC tower but nothing really on laptops. Its broken on the left hinge where there are two screws now exposed and broken plastic. All still works but the LCD is not very stable and looks lousy. Am I supposed to completely open the laptop to get at this area or is there an easier path to replacing this cover assembly? Pictures available upon request.
