Comments on: How to remove Dell XPS M1530 display assembly

By: frank s.

frank s. — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:29:18 +0000

Hi, I’ve got a dell xps m1730. It’s out of warranty as of March. 2 weeks ago I shut it down at dinner, after which I turned it on and received the dreaded “black screen of death” with the pointer in the middle. I tried rebooting, and got the same thing. I could not go into safe mode, or repair advanced mode, or f5, or f8, nothing. I called dell and paid for a one time support. We ran diagnostics out the ying yang, and got nothing. I backed up my important files, pictures etc., then tried to reinstall the operating system. It would not reinstall. They told me it was my hard drive. I purchased a new drive, did the install, and now all it does is boot up, goes into the windows recovery screen, then reboots. I can choose all the different options, but it does nothing more than reboot. I ran custom diagnostics on everything and it passes. They are telling me the only other option is to replace the motherboard. So, my question is what are your thoughts? Have you ever run into this? I’m so frustrated. Is replacing a motherboard doable? I have a desktop from 95 that I keep upgrading parts on, so I have some experience. What if I replace it and it doesn’t work? Then what, graphics card, sound card, ram, cpu? good god what else?

By: luftim

luftim — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:35:54 +0000

my left touchpad button works fine but it isnt clickin.. if somen one culd tell me what to do if i can repair it by my self pleess help

By: aubrey

aubrey — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 06:52:32 +0000

My daughter has a Dell M1530 and the screen started to go black about 2 weeks ago, after about 10 mintues in to using it. If you put the screen under a light you can see the system is still working, it is just so dim you can barely see it. Can you please tell me what we have to do to get it working right. My daughter thought it might be a fuse of lamp going out. I took it to Staples (what a rip off) they had it for over 24hrs and tell me they could replicate the problem and as soon as I took it home there it went again…Please help! thanks!!

By: Laptop Tech

Laptop Tech — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:56:13 +0000

Terry,

Is it possible to remove a laptop display assembly and only connect the external monitor?

Yes, it's possible. But... there are wireless card antenna cables running inside the display assembly. If you remove the display assembly, you'll have to disconnect wireless card cables too. Without them internal Wi-Fi card will not work. In this case you'll have to use an external wireless card. The laptop disassembly instructions also available in the Dell service manuals.

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:02:02 +0000

Is it possible to remove a laptop display assembly and only connect the external monitor?

Thanks,
Terry

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 09:28:55 +0000

Hi there,

I bought a new LCD screen for my XPS m1530 and got brave enough to attempt at changing it. I did everything right and was very careful. When I got it back together my computer started up or so you could hear the windows starting… my screen stayed grey and one side is darker than the other, but it is lit up and is grey. What could I have done wrong? I did not buy Dell parts I bought a generic brand but from a company that specializes in screens. Did I mess up the invertor while changing it out?

By: paul sheriff

paul sheriff — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:14:37 +0000

hi hope you can help ok my touch pad has stopped working or does work sometimes so i plan to do a repair so i found a site of how to take apart the m1530 i only got as far a s the keyboard and the 2 back panels and thought i would stop as it looks like i would have to take more of it apart than i though anyway put all back together and now my microphone does not work my sound works just no microphone and as the mikes are in the display don’t no what i have done so can any of you tell me where the mike wires got to to see if i have maybe pulled them out as cant see them anywhere cant even find where to buy new 1s

By: jay

jay — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:10:05 +0000

finally somebody that knows what they are talking about. Thank you, thank you thank you.

By: Laptop Tech

Laptop Tech — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:05:14 +0000

jay,

As I open the lid of the laptop to view the screen (logging in etc) the display would flicker and eventually turn off at a certain point, say about 1/3 of the way. if I close the lid back to that point I can see what is on the screen again. I took the LCD apart to check the display cable, it looks fine. I reseated the cable to the board just to be sure. The problem is still unchanged.

Could be bad video cable. Maybe it has a pinched wired inside the harness.
First, try reseating the video cable connector on the motherboard. If it doesn’t help, I guess you’ll have to try replacing the cable.

I noticed there seem to be a small magnet out of place, not sure where it came from and where it goes.

This magnet is a part of the lid close switch.
When the display is closed, the magnet activates the switch located inside the laptop base and because of that the laptop goes into hibernation/sleep mode (depends how you set it up).
This magnet should be installed inside the display panel, under the screen bezel. The place is about 2.5 inches on the left from the webcamera.
I have a Dell XPS M1530 on the bench right now and when I move my screwdriver along the screen bezel it sticks to the spot I mentioned. About 2.5″ on the left from the camera.

By: jay

jay — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:25:49 +0000

As I open the lid of the laptop to view the screen (logging in etc) the display would flicker and eventually turn off at a certain point, say about 1/3 of the way. if I close the lid back to that point I can see what is on the screen again. I took the LCD apart to check the display cable, it looks fine. I reseated the cable to the board just to be sure. The problem is still unchanged. I noticed there seem to be a small magnet out of place, not sure where it came from and where it goes. Any help for both problems would be appreciated.
I don’t think its the screen because when it comes on its perfect, It’s just when I move the lid.