Inspiron 17 5000 Service Manual

Procedure

1. Lift the connector latches and disconnect the optical-drive connector board cable and status-light board cable from the system board.
2. Lift the connector latches and disconnect the hard-drive cable and the I/O-board cable from the system board.

   

   1. latch
   2. optical drive connector-board cable
   3. latch
   4. latch
   5. status-light board cable
   6. I/O-board cable
   7. hard-drive cable
   8. latch

3. Lift the connector latches and disconnect the touchpad cable from the system board.
4. Lift the connector latch and disconnect the keyboard cable from the system board.
5. Disconnect the coin-cell battery cable and speaker cable from the system board.

   

   1. touchpad cable
   2. latch
   3. system board
   4. latch
   5. keyboard cable
   6. speaker cable
   7. coin-cell battery cable

6. Remove the screws that secure the system board assembly to the palm rest and keyboard assembly.
7. Carefully lift the system board assembly from the inner edge to release the system board assembly from the palm rest and keyboard assembly.
8. Turn the system board assembly over.

   

   1. M2x3 screws (3)
   2. system board
   3. palm rest and keyboard assembly
   4. M2.5x5 screw (1)

9. Disconnect the power-adapter port cable from the system board.
10. Lift the latch and disconnect the power-button cable from the system board.
11. Peel off the power-button cable from the back of the heat-sink assembly.

    

    1. system board
    2. heat-sink assembly
    3. latch
    4. power-button cable
    5. power-adapter port cable

12. Remove the heat-sink assembly.