Skip to main content
  • Place orders quickly and easily
  • View orders and track your shipping status
  • Create and access a list of your products
  • Manage your Dell EMC sites, products, and product-level contacts using Company Administration.

Latitude 7490 Owner's Manual

Removing heat sink assembly

Heat sink assembly consists of heat sink and the system fan.
  1. Follow the procedure in Before working inside your computer.
  2. Remove the base cover.
  3. Connect the battery cable to the connector on the system board.
  4. To remove the heat sink assembly:
    NOTE To identify the number of screws, see the screw list.
    1. Remove the 2 (M2.0 x 5.0) screws that secure the system fan and the 4 (M2.0 x 3.0) that secures the heat sink assembly to the system board [2].
      NOTE Remove the screws in the order of the callout numbers [1, 2, 3, 4] as indicated on the heat sink.
    2. Lift and flip over the heat sink assembly from the system board.
    3. Disconnect the fan cable from the system board [1].
    4. Separate the heat sink assembly from the system.
    Image: Image shows removal of heatsink

Rate this content

Accurate
Useful
Easy to understand
Was this article helpful?
0/3000 characters
  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: <>()\