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Dell Latitude E6510 Speaker Replacement

Introduction

As a quick warning before you dive into replacing your speakers, this will be a long, hard task. By the time you will even see the speakers the laptop will be completely taken apart. Make sure to not lose your screws and ensure you have plenty of time and space before you follow this guide.

What you need

  1. Careful: steps 1-3 are sourced from a guide that's marked as in-progress.

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    • Open the laptop and locate the volume panel on the keyboard.

    • Use the spudger to get underneath the righthand side of the panel and gently pry up the side.

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    • Remove the detached volume panel from the keyboard.

    • Locate the two screws holding the keyboard in place. Then Remove these screws with a Philips PH1 head screwdriver.

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    • Locate the tab near the back of the keyboard.

    • Pull upwards on the tab to start removing the keyboard and then using both hands at the sides, pull until the keyboard comes free.

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  4. Careful: steps 4-6 are sourced from a guide that's marked as in-progress.

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    • Make sure the device is shutdown

    • Position the laptop upside down with the battery facing towards you.

    • Locate the battery latches circled in red.

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    • Gently slide both latches inward until you hear both latches release.

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    • Pull the battery towards yourself as shown until completely removed from the computer.

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  7. Careful: steps 7-11 are sourced from a guide that's marked as in-progress.

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    • Flip over laptop and locate door panel screws.

    • Remove the Screws.

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    • Slide and remove the access door.

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    • Locate the fan and two fan screws.

    • Remove the 2 screws using a PZ0 Phillip head screwdriver.

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    • Using a plastic spudger, gently pry the fan upwards.

    • Once the fan has been loosened, slowly remove the main fan component.

    • Do not pull too hard as their is still a wire attached.

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    • Locate the wire holding the fan in place and detach the clip.

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    • Remove the hard drive.

    • Pull the drive right and out of the computer.

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    • Remove the small battery.

    • Undo the blue circle first.

    • Pull out the end of the cord by the plastic part to avoid damage to the wire.

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    • Loosen but do not remove the silver screws surrounding the heat sink using a PZ1 screwhead.

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    • Remove the heat sink from the laptop.

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    • Push the silver clips on both sides of the memory cards outwards.

    • Gently pull the cards out one at a time.

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    • Unscrew the side panels on both sides and slide them off.

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    • Remove the screws of the back framework.

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    • Loosen the two highlighted screws, do not remove.

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    • Undo the cables until the are not attached to the back half of the keyboard.

    • Pull the cables backwards and to the side of the laptop.

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    • Undo the other side also.

    • The cables should only be loose, not removed.

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    • Partially open the laptop.

    • Side the top half of the laptop backwards towards yourself to undo it from the bottom half.

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    • Pry the frame work of the laptop off using a plastic splunger.

    • Proceed slowly, any screws that may have been missed can break your laptop if not removed.

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    • Remove the screws from the wireless detector.

    • Remove the detector.

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    • Remove the screws from the top and bottom of both speakers.

    • Remove the speakers.

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Conclusion

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

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