Skip to main content
Sign Out

Welcome to Dell

My Account
  • Place orders quickly and easily
  • View orders and track your shipping status
  • Enjoy members-only rewards and discounts
  • Create and access a list of your products
  • Manage your Dell EMC sites, products, and product-level contacts using Company Administration.
Sign In Create an Account Premier Sign In Partner Program Sign In
Contact Us

Your Dell.com Carts

Dell Precision 3430 Small Form Factor Service Manual

PDF

Removing heat sink and heat sink fan

  1. Follow the procedure in Before working inside your computer.
  2. Remove the:
    1. Side cover

    2. Front bezel

    3. Hard drive and optical drive module

  3. To remove the heat sink with fan:
    1. Disconnect the heat sink fan cable from the system board [1].
    2. Loosen the 4 captive screws that secure the heat sink [2] and lift it away from the system [3].
    • NOTE: Loosen the screws in a sequential order (1,2,3,4) as mentioned on the system board.
    Removing heat sink
  4. To remove the heat sink fan:
    1. Remove the four screws from the fan and lift the fan away from the heat sink.Heat sink fan
  Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
  Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
  Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
  Please select whether the article was helpful or not.
  Comments cannot contain these special characters: <>()\