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Dell Latitude E5540 Owner's Manual

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Removing the System Board

  1. Follow the procedures in Before Working Inside Your Computer .
  2. Remove:
    1. SD card
    2. battery
    3. base cover
    4. keyboard trim
    5. keyboard
    6. memory
    7. optical drive
    8. hard drive
    9. hard-drive cage
    10. WLAN card
    11. display hinge
    12. palmrest
    13. system fan
    14. ExpressCard cage
  3. Disconnect:
    1. coin-cell battery cable
    2. power-connector cable
    3. speaker cable
    Figure displaying how to disconnect the coin-cell, DC-in port, and speaker cable.
  4. Flip the computer and perform the following steps:
    1. Remove the screws that secure the display-cable connector and remove it from the system board.
    2. Disconnect the display cable and status-light board cable from the system board.
    Figure displaying how to disconnect status-light cable and display cable.
  5. Perform the following steps:
    1. Remove the screws that secure the system board on the computer.
    2. Lift and remove the system board from the computer.Figure displaying how to remove the system board from the computer.

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