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Dell Vostro 3660/3669 Owner's Manual

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Removing the heat sink assembly

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

    2. bezel

  3. Open the front panel door.
  4. To remove the heat sink assembly:
    1. Disconnect the heat sink assembly cable from the connector on the system board [1].
    2. Loosen the captive screws that secure the heat sink assembly to the system board [2, 3, 4, 5].
      • NOTE: Loosen the screws that secure the heat sink to the system board in the order of the callout numbers [2, 3, 4, 5].
    3. Lift the heat sink assembly away from the computer [6].
    Figure displaying how to remove the heatsink module from the computer.

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