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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.
March 11th, 2009 at 8:32 am
How do you replace the bottom case of a Dell D600 ?
March 15th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Thierry,
I guess you are asking about the base assembly aka base cover.
In order to replace the base assembly, you’ll have to disassemble the whole laptop apart and remove the motherboard.
You’ll find step-by-step laptop disassembly instructions in the service manual for Dell Latitude D600. Follow this link.
October 15th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Thank you!
Really good stuff, made my life easy!
Thank you very much,
Paulo.
October 14th, 2010 at 9:11 am
Thank u for this very simple info.
I will do this
June 29th, 2011 at 12:37 pm
Thanks a lot for this tutorial. It really helped me get to know my laptop better and do some maintenance as well.
October 23rd, 2011 at 7:32 pm
I have a Dell D610. Will the fan cleaning instructions here related to the D600 generally also apply to D610?
October 24th, 2011 at 6:59 am
@ Daug,
Yes, it will be similar. The following guide explains how to remove keyboard from a Dell D610 laptop. Here’s the link:
http://www.insidemylaptop.com/upgrade-memory-dell-latitude-d610-laptop/
In order to clean the cooling fan you’ll have to do the following:
1. Remove the keyboard.
2. Clean the fan and heatsink using compressed air. I don’t think it’s necessary to remove the heat sink unless you want to apply new thermal grease on the CPU.
December 17th, 2011 at 12:05 pm
which problem disturbing my Pc, since when i place power baton it is on for few time then switching off again .Help me
December 23rd, 2011 at 1:15 pm
@ ADAM MKINGA,
Maybe bad memory? Can you remove memory modules one by one and test the laptop with each module separately?