Comments on: How to take apart Dell Vostro 1220

By: umer

umer — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 11:11:25 +0000

My wifi dont work after opening please help me what i do

By: umer

umer — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 10:17:10 +0000

Hi every one i removed the wifi wire like 3 cabels from the back side but now i dont know where to connect them again please help me

By: bollos

bollos — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:43:07 +0000

aah sry, i see you’ve already answered the ‘loose gray lead’ thing, ah well, i’ll have to break the box open again and try and see what it is :/

By: bollos

bollos — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:39:39 +0000

thx for this 🙂

i’ve put this back together but the wireless isn’t working but the device is fine in device manager, but the gray lead at the wireless module end isn’t connected to anything and i can’t remember if it was before and also can’t work out where it’s connected in these photos! it gets out of the box via ethernet np, so i’m really suspicious it’s this loose gray lead.

By: Pieter

Pieter — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:29:15 +0000

Great instructions, it helped me a lot changing the harddrive. Many tnx.
Yes the grey cable does not connect.

Regards, Pieter

By: Russ

Russ — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 04:23:57 +0000

Many thanks. I spent several hours w/Dell and their instructions. They never mentioned the disconnect the wires and how can you get the palm rest off if you don’t. They are twits.
Thanks again.

By: Ezequiel

Ezequiel — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:18:06 +0000

Your guide helped me BIG time. Thanks for the effort

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 31 May 2012 09:04:05 +0000

An excellent guide, thank you. Supplements the Dell documentation as this guide has more comments and shows that it is not necessary to remove the screen for some jobs in the innards. The Dell docs are worth a read too: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/vos1220/en/sm/parts.htm

I was trying to get to the fan to clean it. I followed your photos and comments. I got stuck trying to remove the palm rest though. I was able to lift and unclip the back and sides but the front didn’t want to come away. Rather than force and break it, I removed dust I could see in the fan and reassembled the laptop. More info on the clips or securing method at the front would be really useful.

Thanks for a great step through.

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:54:11 +0000

In my Dell Vostro 1000 I want to upgrade the processor. Can you help me with what is the highest I can go as far as processor. If you can post some pictures of how to change the processor.

By: avan ivan

avan ivan — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:39:04 +0000

Super it really helps me to remove keyboard..

Thanks for uploading this guidelines.