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 Dell Financial Services Premier Sign In Partner Program Sign In
Contact Us

Your Dell.com Carts

Dell Precision 7720 Owner's Manual

PDF

Removing the heat sink assembly

  1. Follow the procedure in Before working inside your computer.
  2. Remove the:
    1. battery cover
    2. battery
    3. base cover
    4. hard drive
    5. keyboard
    6. palmrest
  3. To remove heat sink:
    1. Disconnect the fan cables from the computer [1, 2] .
    2. Loosen the captive M2.5x5.0 screws that secure the heat sink assembly to the computer [3].
      NOTE Remove the screws that secure the heat sink to the system board in the order stamped onto the heat sink next to the screws [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8].
    3. Lift and remove the heat sink assembly from the computer [4].
    Figure displaying how to remove heat sink assembly.

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: <>()\