Disassemble Dell Inspiron N5010 Take your laptop apart to upgrade or replace components.The Dell Inspiron N5010 is a powerful laptop built for home use. The laptop, released in March 2010, features a 15.6-inch high-definition, wide-screen display and an optional Blu-Ray player. Reasons to disassemble the Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop include hardware failure, such as the
Dell Inspiron N5010 Laptop Keyboard, hard drive, memory or optical drive . You would also need to disassemble this laptop if you wanted to upgrade any of the hardware components. Disassembling your laptop only requires a few common tools.
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Shut down the Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop. Disconnect any devices connected to the laptop and turn the laptop upside down. Rotate the laptop until the battery is next to you. The battery is black and located below the middle, rear edge of the back of the laptop when the laptop is right-side up.
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Move the battery-unlock latch above the left side of the battery to the left, exposing an open padlock icon. Move the battery-release latch above the right side of the battery to the right to cause the battery to pop up. Both battery latches are black plastic pieces. Remove the battery.
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Remove the screw on the left side of the memory cover directly above the battery bay using a Phillips screwdriver. Remove the cover. Locate the two memory modules in the top part of the bay. Push the holding clips on the short edges of the memory modules out. The modules will tilt upward. Carefully pull the modules out of their slots.
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Remove the screw along the middle-right side of the memory bay. Insert your screwdriver into the screw hole and push it to the right to push the optical drive out of the middle of the laptop's right edge. Remove the optical drive. The optical drive is square shaped. The outer edge of the optical drive is black plastic, while the rest of the optical drive is metal.
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Remove the remaining 10 screws on the bottom of the laptop to loosen up the palm rest and the hard drive, then turn the laptop right-side up.
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Open the display and push the display back as far as the display can go. The display is the part of the laptop that contains your screen. Insert a flat-head screwdriver behind the last row of
Dell Inspiron N5010 Laptop Keyboard keys and push the screwdriver back toward the monitor to push the keyboard toward the mouse touch pad. When the tabs behind the keyboard are fully exposed, wedge the keyboard up, out of its bay. Lift the keyboard and place it, keys down, in front of the mouse touchpad.
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Lift up on the black plastic connector holding the ribbon cable extending from the keyboard in the laptop. Carefully pull the ribbon cable out of the laptop, then remove the keyboard.
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Lift the plastic connectors and carefully remove the two ribbon cables in the lower-left corner of the
Dell Inspiron N5010 Laptop Keyboard bay and the one in the center of the keyboard bay. Remove the two screws in the lower-left, one in the upper-left, one in the upper-middle and one in the bottom-middle of the keyboard bay.
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Slide a flat-head screwdriver under the palm rest and pry upward. The palm rest is a plastic piece that wraps around the touch pad and the area where the
Dell Inspiron N5010 Laptop Keyboard used to be. Remove the palm rest.
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Lift and remove the hard drive, located in the lower-left corner of the Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop. The hard drive is a 4-inch by 3-inch silver metal piece.
