the1trujok3r Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 Brian, Since you have done the tear up and down of the M18x so many times can you do a video before you return yours on how to disassemble and paste the processor and gpu's?I've never done it and I've seen some of the other video's but the M18x is a different beast to tear down and I think a video would be a huge help.Thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Brian Posted May 23, 2011 Founder Share Posted May 23, 2011 Sure, thats exactly what I planned to do tonight anyway. I'm getting an exchange rather than returning it so I'll be holding on to this unit for at least another 10 days until my exchange arrives (with hopefully no issues). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mw86 Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 (edited) That's great of you Brian. The M18X is posted at Dell.com and it shows a basic tear down depending on what you are replacing and removing there can be a lot of steps. I checked it out and it's a delicate flower in areas and one wrong move and you pull a Brian. Joking. With Brians experience all of us should take heed... If it can happen that easily for Brian... It's more than likely to happen to anyone who has little experience in a intricate system like this good thing Brian said he'd make a video and save ourselves the heartache. This thing really is that bad. You have to be careful with the small thin plastic brackets that make up some of the keyboard surrounding, there's tabs and everything is delicate in removal. Under the keyboard you can get to the secondary dimms of memory. Under the bottom plate you have access to the first dimms of memory, the hard drives and all fans even for dusting. The prob will be for repasting. You have to remove a lot just a couple steps shy of a mother board replacement. Edited May 24, 2011 by mw86 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the1trujok3r Posted May 24, 2011 Author Share Posted May 24, 2011 Yeah. Brian said he's tearing it down in 15 mins now so it will be nice to see the vid. Also I don't think he did anything it was what he was trying to fix direct from the factory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mw86 Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Yeah. Brian said he's tearing it down in 15 mins now so it will be nice to see the vid. Also I don't think he did anything it was what he was trying to fix direct from the factory True I also think Dell needs to use stronger plastics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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