Comments on: Dell Vostro 1000 complete disassembly to fix overheating

By: brian

brian — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:23:09 +0000

I can’t think you enough for this tremendous guide.

In the midst of installing new hardware and software, I was consistently getting overheating shutdowns, and was concerned that it was to do with the hardware I was using. Thankfully, you set me straight.

Thanks again.

By: jeff

jeff — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:13:21 +0000

Thanks Andreas, these are very useful instructions. It’s much easier when you know that someone has been there before!

The little connector that you couldn’t identify goes to the lid opening sensor.

I think it does matter which way round you connect the WLAN antenna cables. On my machine, the cable colours are identified by little triangles printed on the circuit board.

By: mihai

mihai — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:54:33 +0000

oh by the way, i’m in nuremberg.

By: mihai

mihai — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:54:14 +0000

hey whats up man. i see you’re in germany. on my lcd, the little hinge on the right side broke. i found some hinges on ebay, but i’d need to take the screen apart. how would i do that as i don’t see any screws anywhere.

By: mitch

mitch — Sun, 31 May 2009 03:20:23 +0000

Just followed your instructions to clean a fan on a vostro 1500. Was able to clearly follow your instructions, and had very little difficulty getting to the fan. I could not, however, completely free the keyboard cable, but was able to sufficiently move things out of the way and work on the inside. Thanks for presenting things so clearly.

By: ollie

ollie — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:32:33 +0000

The Dell Service Manual is pretty good too. You can see it here:
http://support.euro.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/vos1000/en/sm_en/index.htm

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:48:22 +0000

I have a Vostro 1000 and I play games on it for hours, and it always overheats. It just shuts off in the middle of when I’m doing something. I might try to do this but I’m lazy and probably will break it. :/

By: anas

anas — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:22:21 +0000

hey. i have a vostro 1000 laptop. it was working fine untill i downloaded a game and started playing it a lot. the first day i played about 2 hours stright and then the computer gave a beep and then shut off. i waited about 5 min and turned on the computer and then after 10 min it shut off. i think the problem is with the fan. i don’t know how to fix. please help.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:17:40 +0000

just curious, as i dont feel like opening mine – does anyone know if the socket in this unit is upgradable/seated by zif socket or if it’s soldered to the motherboard? i have the sempron 3600 cpu and it’s killing me lol

By: TRGfunds

TRGfunds — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:52:25 +0000

Wow, I just read this and immediately shut my vostro down and totally disassembled it and reassembled it in less than 15 minutes! thank you so much! Now I know how to upgrade the processor! AWESOME