Remove keyboard and clean fan inside Dell Latitude D600 laptop

Here’s how you can remove the keyboard and clean the cooling fan and heatsink inside your Dell Latitude D600 laptop without taking it to the laptop repair place, check out this tutorial. It’s very easy and will not take more then 10-15 minutes.

If the fan works fine, there is no need to remove it for cleaning. You can blow off the dust with compressed air. Just buy a can of compressed air, you can find it in any local computer store, and spray it inside the fan until it’s clean and there is no dust left.

The author of this tutorial says:

Here is the heatsink/heatpipe/blower assembly. I would highly recommend NOT removing any of this. There is one screw directly on the fan, but it WILL NOT allow you to remove the fan. You have to remove the entire heatsink. If you do this, you should replace the thermal compound between he heatsink and the processor core. This is not recommended.

This is not as scary as it sounds. In order to remove the heatsink, you’ll have to loosen four screws witch are labeled “1″ through “4″ and then carefully lift up the heat sink assembly. You can remove the heat sink if you want to replace the thermal compound between the heat sink and the CPU.

If the fan is defective and will not spin, most likely you’ll have to replace the fan. In this case you’ll have to disassemble the laptop down to the motherboard because the fan is secured by two screws and one of them is hidden under the palm rest. In order to remove the fan, you’ll have to remove the palm rest first.

Are you looking for Dell Latitude D600 spare parts? Try here.

UPDATE:

I just published another more comprehensive guide for removing and replacing the cooling fan in a Dell Latitude D600 notebook.

 

 

Static electricity can kill your laptop. I recommend wearing an anti-static wrist strap while working with internal parts of your laptop.

 

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