Comments on: How to take apart Dell Vostro 1510 notebook

By: dood

dood — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:32:24 +0000

Pranav,
I managed to reset the bios (or cmos, I don’t really know the difference) by disconnecting the cmos battery.
Follow the guide above, but skip step 3 (removing the ram) and step 6 (removing the heat sink).
Careful with the cable connectors. Some of them work like the penultimate picture of step 8 (removing the keyboard) where you need to hinge the black bit away from the board. I didn’t realise this and broke the connector for the touchpad . I’m trying to fix it now.
When you get to the cmos battery, leave the battery where it is (stuck to the board with a pad) and pull out the wires where they go into the white connecter on the board. I thought that part of the connector was a plug and /nearly/ broke it, but it isn’t, just pull the wires straight out.
I left it unplugged for about an hour and a quarter. I’m sure you don’t need to leave it that long, but after taking so long just to get to the battery, I didn’t want to risk having to take it all apart again.
Plug the wires from the battery back in and put it all back together.
Next time it started up, it gave a checksum error and reset to the factory defaults.
Hope this helps! It’s a hell of a job just to reset a bios, but better than losing 450 quid’s worth of lappie!

By: Laptop Tech

Laptop Tech — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:47:14 +0000

Pranav,

Do you have any suggestions on resolving a bad flash? Is there any way to reset the BIOS memory to factory?

If the laptop was flashed with a wrong version or failed while upgrading the BIOS, most likely you’ll have to replace the motherboard.
You can try removing the CMOS battery for a while.

By: Pranav

Pranav — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:49:59 +0000

Hi,

Do you have any suggestions on resolving a bad flash? Is there any way to reset the BIOS memory to factory?

By: Laptop Tech

Laptop Tech — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:51:36 +0000

Afshin,

Is it possible to change the graphics card on Vostro 1510 or is it integrated to the motherboard?

I doubt that you can upgrade the card. I just looked and the service manual for Vostro 1510 and they don’t mention the VGA board anywhere. I guess it’s built into the motherboard.

By: Afshin

Afshin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:11:13 +0000

Hi,

Is it possible to change the graphics card on Vostro 1510 or is it integrated to the motherboard? The 8400 VGA of my notebook is damaged and I need to replace it.

By: Laptop Tech

Laptop Tech — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:44:06 +0000

Anibal,

I’m looking for some specification about put 2 hard drives in Vostro 1510. It’s possible?

I doubt it. It looks like this model has only one hard drive connector.

By: Anibal

Anibal — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:25:19 +0000

Hi!

I’m looking for some specification about put 2 hard drives in Vostro 1510. It’s possible? Thanks for advices.

By: suresh

suresh — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:18:50 +0000

how to activate my laptop dell vostro 1500 model mini hsdpa slot , i insart mobile 3g SIM card but not detect i allredy down load all driver ,but not working , so how to use this mini slot , mini [sim] slot near to battery

As per Review Dell Vostro 1500 laptop
{In terms of communication the laptop can be equipped with a HSDPA mini-PCI card that will allow 24 hours free access to the internet without any annoying external hardware. }

By: Laptop Tech

Laptop Tech — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:26:07 +0000

Bysoftie,

Do you know whre the cmos-ram is located. Have to reset or replace it after wrong bios update.

Sorry, cannot help. I don’t work on component level.

By: Bysoftie

Bysoftie — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:15:40 +0000

Do you know whre the cmos-ram is located. Have to reset or replace it after wrong bios update.