If you want to take apart a Dell laptop you can find very clear step-by-step laptop service manuals on Dell website. Here is the link where you can view or download service manuals for the below listed laptops. You can search Dell database by a service tag located on the bottom of your laptop or by the product model. Dell has changed the website, and now it’s even easier to find a manual you need, just click on Manuals link and select your system. Dell offers laptop service manuals in many languages in HTML and PDF formats.
You’ll find a lot of spare parts for Dell laptops here.
You will find service manuals for the following Dell Inspiron, XPS and Latitude laptops.
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Dell Inspiron 5150 |
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Dell Latitude 100L |
Dell Latitude D500 |
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March 13th, 2007 at 11:49 am
T:
Sounds like a screen inverter issue to me. Check to make sure the cables inside the screen aren’t loose, and – failing that – consider replacing the inverter.
Also, how would I go about re-soldering the DC-in jack, as I have narrowed it down to just that. I’m having trouble removing the motherboard to get to the DC-in jack.
March 13th, 2007 at 12:20 am
The problems with my Inspiron 1150 has changed or increased since the last 2 weeks [ post #81]
Now everytime I turn the AC power on — the screen goes black, it’ll still charge the battery though. It turns on fine with battery, but the screen flickers a LOT and if I increase the brightness to high– screen goes black again.
I tried looking at the screen with bright lights and I can still see a faint outline, so I’m thinking my screen doesn’t actually shut down– it just doesnt like to be on high brightness or on AC power….
Can somebody please help me???
March 12th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
I have an old Dell Inspiron 2650 that has ceased to boot regularily. I know the main battery is dead, and has been for some time, but as I use it plugged in this was not a problem… Now it takes about 10 tries to boot to windows. Most often, the drives spin up, and I don’t get to the Dell/BIOS screen. Sometimes it gets to the splash screen then freezes, and sometimes it gets as far as windows before dying. Because my BIOS data (when I am able to get into it) is consistently dead, I suspect it is a CMOS Battery issue. Unfortunately I have been unable to find any info on where to locate a CMOS battery in my system, so I don’t know if I am barking up the wrong tree. I followed advice found on this site, and re-seated all the components, based on the attitude that the non-functioning laptop couldn’t get more non-functioning if I messed up, but it still does exactly the same thing…
March 10th, 2007 at 10:34 am
I have a dell lattitude d600 need illistration of the 24co2 chip to “paperclip”the cmos password free.i am confused and a bit of a rooky at this.however the laptop is disassembled and ready for the deed.please help.the closest to the chip i can locate is a 24c25?
March 10th, 2007 at 9:00 am
crazy4u,
First of all make sure it’s not just a loose cable. Reseat cables on both sides of the inverter board.
BTW, I found a new inverter for Dell Inspiron 710m for about $45 on ebay.
March 9th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
I have a Dell Inspiron 600m laptop. My fan went off a couple of days ago after running noisily for about a year now. I bought a new fan for $20 from parts-people.com. They have all the Dell parts you need for a pretty decent price. I went to the Dell website and followed the manual about how to get into the computer fan. Followed the steps from Dell’s website to rip off the laptop and guess what it worked. I assembled everything again and now the new fan is running like a breeze. I can’t even believe that I could do that myself.
March 9th, 2007 at 6:34 am
I accidentally spilt a little beer on a Dell Inspiron 5100. I do not want to take it in for repair because it is older and was a friend’s who gave it to me because he bought a new laptop. I was going to disassemble it and try to clean the parts and then let dry. Any advice on how to do this, or if this is a bad idea what I should do. Thanks.
March 9th, 2007 at 3:09 am
My last post was for the people having trouble with there power input.
I can now see the topic is about shutting down. I also had the same prob.
Then carefully remove chip from heatsink and re grease the top of the chip and replace it back into its slot. Then replace heatsink. Hopefully this will sort the heat problem out and stop it from restarting 
I took the casing off and removed the heatsink. The processor chip will prob be stuck onto it because of heat. I then sucked out all the dust which had clogged up all around the chip and heatsink etc, It was a lot by the way
March 9th, 2007 at 3:02 am
The problem is the dc jack. After a certain ammount of time of pulling the power cord ina nd out of the back of the laptop, the jack becomes loose from the motherboard.
I purchased a new dc jack, they are easy to find, i got mine from ebay. Then you have to remove motherboard and resolder jack onto motherboard. I hope this helps.
March 8th, 2007 at 7:26 am
Got this problem with ma Dell Inspiron 1300 .That laptop just restarts on shut down .i thought it was a virus then formatted HD and put fresh XP install but with no luck .
What do u guys think abt this ?