Comments on: How to disassemble Dell Studio 1555

By: IML Tech

IML Tech — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 14:57:28 +0000

In reply to Riccardo. Thank you! I'm happy to help.

By: Riccardo

Riccardo — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 14:23:29 +0000

You’re my laptop guru! Thanks a lot mate!

By: Stephen Woodhouse

Stephen Woodhouse — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 18:49:48 +0000

Excellent guide thank you (I’ve made a PayPal donation).

My 1555 motherboard has an ATI graphics card. I plan to replace the Intel 8700 processor with a T9900. (And a RAM upgrade and SSD). How can I check compatibility of the new CPU?
Thanks, Stephen

By: Stephen Woodhouse

Stephen Woodhouse — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 12:08:34 +0000

Amazing guide thanks, I’ll make a donation. I have an old Dell 1555 and I’m upgrading the CPU (plus SSD and more RAM). I’ll use an Intel T9900 processor instead of the existing 8700.
I have a few questions – will I need to remove the screen to get to the CPU? I don’t see mention of thermal paste etc but I understand there is some paste between the CPU and the fan which needs to be removed then replaced with new. Is this necessary? Finally is there any advantage in using thermal shims?

Thanks

By: Siebrand

Siebrand — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:42:53 +0000

Excellent guide, and 100% accurate. Thanks!

By: sadi

sadi — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 02:49:30 +0000

thank u very much…..

By: jl

jl — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 21:37:23 +0000

I’ve just found one of these on top of a pile of rubbish at work, marked “beyond repair, out of warrantynd a compatible power supply and booted it up, gets through to windows but hangs before desktop comes up, booted again using linux live usb, seems to run well for a bit, boom, crash out of the blue, just goes black and off.

Opened it up, felt and smelt a bit hot, So there’s a little white connector floating at the end of a cable and what looks like a socket where it should be but there is too much plastic in the socket so the connector cant go in. scrape the socket so I can get the connector plugged on to its pins. Close t all up, Fan noisier than before, not so hot now.. doesn’t crash.. windows partition needs repair but that seems to be all.

I’d say looking at this that there was probably a batch sent out like this so if you have this problem and nothing else works..

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 19:13:52 +0000

I know I’m pretty late to this thread but my Studio 1555 starts up for about 30 seconds before shutting itself off. The time progressively gets shorter (sometimes it just shows the “CHKDSK” screen and then just turns off before I can select anything) and sometimes it won’t turn on at all. The AC adaptor and battery are both new and I’m afraid it’s a motherboard problem. I was hoping to check and see if anyone had a similar problem.

By: bileg

bileg — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 07:36:05 +0000

Where is locating Bios chip

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 20:11:45 +0000

Thank you so much for this step by step – it was very helpful!