Einleitung

With the required tools and time, a Dell XPS 10 can be fixed in under an hour.

"Do not use metal tools to pry connectors off the board. You can cause a short circuit and fry your motherboard if you do so."

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    • Slide one of the plastic opening tools in the crack on the side of the device with the windows button.

    • Slide the other plastic opening tool facing the opposite way in the crack next to the first one and pry the back cover off a little bit at a time or slide them around the edge as necessary.

    • Finally, slide the two plastic opening tools all around the case until it is open.

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    • Unscrew the three black, 4mm screws with a phillips screwdriver size PH 0 (one of which is under the gold colored ribbon cable.)

    • Unscrew the three gray, 3mm screws with the same screwdriver (phillips screwdriver size PH 0.)

    • Unplug the connector the connects the battery to the mother board.

    • Make sure to use a plastic opening tool instead of a metal spudger to avoid any unnecessary accidental shorting out of components.

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    • Unscrew the two screws shown circled in red in the picture.

    • Use a #0 Phillips screwdriver to remove the two 4 mm screws

    • Lift up the plug that connects the camera to the motherboard using the plastic opening tool as shown in the pictures.

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    • After the rear facing camera is removed, you may now remove the front facing camera.

    • Use the nylon spudger to disconnect the cable on the motherboard.

    • Make sure you use the black plastic spudger to pry up the aluminum tape holding the front facing camera. Be careful as the tape is fragile.

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    • Use the black spudger to remove all of the ribbon cables except for the wide orange cable.

    • Use a plastic opening tool to remove the orange cable.

    • Use a #0 Phillips screwdriver to remove the two 3 mm screws.

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    • Continue to disconnect all of the ribbon cables from the motherboard.

    • Using the black spudger, remove the aluminum tape from the wide black cable. Be careful not to tear the tape as it is fragile.

    • Use a #0 Phillips screwdriver to remove the final two 3 mm screws.

Abschluss

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

James

Mitglied seit: 04/10/16

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