Thermal Cooling Assembly - Dell Inspiron 3800 System Reference Manual

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8. Verify that the PC Card ejectors do not extend from the PC Card slot.
9. Remove the following two screws from the system board assembly (see
The 4-mm screw with captive washer located on the far left side of the computer between the hard-disk
drive assembly and the PC Card slot.
The 4-mm screw with captive washer located on the far right side of the computer in front of the thermal
cooling assembly (TCA) and to the right of the microprocessor module.
NOTE: Locate these screws by looking for the white circles on the system board that outline the
captive washers.
Figure 23. System Board Assembly
10. Lift the system board assembly out of the bottom case assembly.
Be sure to transfer the memory module(s) to the replacement system-board assembly.
Insert the diskette that accompanied the replacement system board assembly into the diskette drive, and turn on the
computer. Follow the instructions on the display screen.
After replacing the system board assembly, be sure to enter the system's service tag number into the BIOS of the
replacement system-board assembly.

Thermal Cooling Assembly

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Figure 23):
1 System board assembly
2 Bottom case assembly
3 4-mm screws with captive
washers (2)