Dell Precision Mobile Workstation M4800 Owner's Manual

Removing The Video-Card Heat Sink

1. Follow the procedures in Before Working Inside Your Computer.
2. Remove the:
   1. battery
   2. base cover
   3. keyboard trim
   4. keyboard
   5. optical drive
   6. hard drive
   7. palm rest
   8. heat-sink fan
   9. heatsink
3. Disconnect and un-route any antenna cables connected to the installed wireless cards.

   

4. Remove the antenna cables from the routing channels.

   

5. Perform the following steps as shown in the illustration:
   1. Loosen the captive screws that secure the video-card heat sink to the computer. [1, 2, 3, 4]
   2. Lift up and remove the video-card heat sink from the computer.