Dell Inspiron 2350 User manual

Inspiron 23
Owner’s Manual
Computer model: Inspiron 2350
Regulatory model: W07C
Regulatory type: W07C002
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Notes, Cautions, and Warnings
NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better
use of your computer.
CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates potential damage to hardware or loss of
data if instructions are not followed.
WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage,
personal injury, or death.
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© 2013 Dell Inc.
Trademarks used in this text: Dell™, the DELL logo, and Inspiron™ are trademarks of
Dell Inc.; Microsoft®and Windows®
are registered trademarks of Microsoft corporation in the
United States and/or other countries; Bluetooth®is a registered trademark owned by
Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and is used by Dell under license; Intel®and Intel SpeedStep®are registered
trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and other countries.
2013 - 08 Rev. A00
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Contents | 3
Contents
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Safety Instructions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Recommended Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
After Working Inside Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . 11
Removing the Memory Module(s). . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Replacing the Memory Module(s). . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Removing the Base Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Replacing the Base Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Removing the Computer Base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Replacing the Computer Base . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Removing the Coin-Cell Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Replacing the Coin-Cell Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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Removing the Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Replacing the Hard Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Removing the USB Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Replacing the USB board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Removing the Speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Replacing the Speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Removing the Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Replacing the Fan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Removing the Heat Sink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Replacing the Heat Sink. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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Removing the Wireless Mini-Card . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Replacing the Wireless Mini-Card . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Removing the Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Replacing the Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Removing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Replacing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Entering the Service Tag in the BIOS. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Removing the Back Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Replacing the Back Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Removing the Converter Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Replacing the Converter Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
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Removing the Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Replacing the Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Removing the Microphones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Replacing the Microphones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Removing the Power-Button Assembly . . . . . . . . 51
Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Replacing the Power-Button Assembly . . . . . . . . 52
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Removing the Control-Buttons Board . . . . . . . . . 53
Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Replacing the Control-Buttons Board . . . . . . . . . 54
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Removing the Stand Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Replacing the Stand Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
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Removing the Display Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Replacing the Display Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
System Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Entering System Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
System Setup Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
System Setup Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Clearing Forgotten Passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Clearing CMOS Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Display-Settings Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Flashing the BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
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8| Contents
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Before You Begin | 9
Before You Begin
CAUTION: To avoid losing data, save and close all open files and exit all
open programs before you turn off your computer.
1Save and close all open files and exit all open programs.
2Move your mouse pointer to the upper-right or lower-right corner of the screen to
open the Charms sidebar, and then click Settings→ Power→ Shut down.
NOTE: If you are using a different operating system, see the documentation
of your operating system for shut-down instructions.
3Disconnect your computer and all attached devices from their electrical outlets.
4Disconnect all telephone cables, network cables, and attached devices
from your computer.
5After the computer is unplugged, press and hold the power button for 5 seconds to
ground the system board.
CAUTION: Place the computer on a soft and clean surface to avoid scratching
the display.
6Place the computer face down on a flat surface.
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10 | BeforeYouBegin
Safety Instructions
Use the following safety guidelines to protect your computer from potential damage and
ensure your personal safety.
WARNING: Before working inside your computer, read the safety information
that shipped with your computer. For more safety best practices, see the
Regulatory Compliance home page at dell.com/regulatory_compliance.
WARNING: Disconnect all power sources before opening the computer cover or
panels. After you finish working inside the computer, replace all covers, panels,
and screws before connecting to the power source.
CAUTION: To avoid damaging the computer, make sure that the work surface is
flat and clean.
CAUTION: To avoid damaging the components and cards, handle them by their
edges and avoid touching pins and contacts.
CAUTION: Only a certified service technician is authorized to remove the
computer cover and access any of the components inside the computer. See the
safety instructions for complete information about safety precautions, working
inside your computer, and protecting against electrostatic discharge.
CAUTION: Before touching anything inside your computer, ground yourself by
touching an unpainted metal surface, such as the metal at the back of the
computer. While you work, periodically touch an unpainted metal surface to
dissipate static electricity, which could harm internal components.
CAUTION: When you disconnect a cable, pull on its connector or on its pull-tab,
not on the cable itself. Some cables have connectors with locking tabs or
thumb-screws that you must disengage before disconnecting the cable.
When disconnecting cables, keep them evenly aligned to avoid bending any
connector pins. When connecting cables, make sure that the connectors and
ports are correctly oriented and aligned.
CAUTION: To disconnect a network cable, first unplug the cable from your
computer and then unplug the cable from the network device.
CAUTION: Press and eject any installed card from the media-card reader.
Recommended Tools
The procedures in this document may require the following tools:
•Phillips screwdriver
•Torx T8 screwdriver
•Plastic scribe
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After Working Inside Your Computer | 11
After Working Inside Your Computer
CAUTION: Leaving stray or loose screws inside your computer may severely
damage your computer.
1Replace all screws and make sure that no stray screws remain inside your
computer.
2Place the computer in an upright position.
3Connect any external devices, cables, cards, and any other part(s) you removed
before working on your computer.
4Connect your computer and all attached devices to their electrical outlets.
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12 | Removing the Memory Module(s)
Removing the Memory Module(s)
WARNING: B efore working inside your computer, read the safety information
that shipped with your computer and follow the steps in "Before You Begin" on
page 9. After working inside your computer, follow the instructions in
"After Working Inside Your Computer" on page 11. For more safety best practices,
see the Regulatory Compliance home page at dell.com/regulatory_compliance.
Procedure
1Loosen the captive screw that secures the memory-module cover to the base cover.
2Slide and lift the memory-module cover off the base cover.
NOTE: If the memory module accidentally slips and falls in the computer base,
remove the base cover to retrieve the memory module. See "Removing the
Base Cover" on page 15".
1 captive screw 2 memory-module cover
3basecover
2
3
1
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Removing the Memory Module(s) | 13
3Use your fingertips to spread apart the securing clips on each end of the
memory-module connector until the memory module pops up.
4Remove the memory module from the memory-module connector.
1 memory-module connector 2 memory module
3 securing clips (2)
1
2
3
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14 | Replacing the Memory Module(s)
Replacing the Memory Module(s)
WARNING: B efore working inside your computer, read the safety information
that shipped with your computer and follow the steps in "Before You Begin" on
page 9. After working inside your computer, follow the instructions in
"After Working Inside Your Computer" on page 11. For more safety best practices,
see the Regulatory Compliance home page at dell.com/regulatory_compliance.
Procedure
1Align the notch on the memory module with the tab on the memory-module
connector.
2Insert the memory module into the memory-module connector, and press the
memory module down until it clicks into place.
NOTE: If you do not hear the click, remove the memory module and reinstall it.
3Insert the tabs on the memory-module cover into the slots on the base cover and
then slide the memory-module cover into place.
NOTE: Make sure that the captive screw on the memory-module cover aligns
with the screw hole on the base cover.
4Tighten the captive screw that secures the memory-module cover to the base
cover.
1tab 2notch
2
1
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Removing the Base Cover | 15
Removing the Base Cover
WARNING: B efore working inside your computer, read the safety information
that shipped with your computer and follow the steps in "Before You Begin" on
page 9. After working inside your computer, follow the instructions in
"After Working Inside Your Computer" on page 11. For more safety best practices,
see the Regulatory Compliance home page at dell.com/regulatory_compliance.
Procedure
1Loosen the captive screw that secures the base cover to the computer base.
2Remove the screws that secure the base cover to the computer base.
1 captive screw 2 base cover
3screws(8)
1
2
3
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16 | Removing the Base Cover
3Starting from the right side, pry up the base cover to release the ports on the
system board from the slots on the base cover.
4Lift the base cover off the computer base.
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Replacing the Base Cover | 17
Replacing the Base Cover
WARNING: B efore working inside your computer, read the safety information
that shipped with your computer and follow the steps in "Before You Begin" on
page 9. After working inside your computer, follow the instructions in
"After Working Inside Your Computer" on page 11. For more safety best practices,
see the Regulatory Compliance home page at dell.com/regulatory_compliance.
Procedure
1Slide the slots on the base cover into the ports on the system board and snap the
base cover into place.
2Replace the screws that secure the base cover to the computer base.
3Tighten the captive screw that secures the base cover to the computer base.
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18 | Removing the Computer Base
Removing the Computer Base
WARNING: B efore working inside your computer, read the safety information
that shipped with your computer and follow the steps in "Before You Begin" on
page 9. After working inside your computer, follow the instructions in
"After Working Inside Your Computer" on page 11. For more safety best practices,
see the Regulatory Compliance home page at dell.com/regulatory_compliance.
Prerequisites
Remove the base cover. See "Removing the Base Cover" on page 15.
Procedure
1Disconnect the antenna cables from the wireless mini-card.
2Using the pull-tabs, disconnect the display cables from the system board.
1 wireless mini-card 2 antenna cables (2)
3 pull-tabs (2) 4 display cables (2)
1
2
4
3
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Removing the Computer Base | 19
3Remove the screws that secure the computer base to the stand assembly.
4Lift the computer base slightly and slide the display cables and antenna cables
through the slot on the computer base.
5Lift the computer base away from the stand assembly.
1 screws (2) 2 slot
3computerbase
3
1
2
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20 | Replacing the Computer Base
Replacing the Computer Base
WARNING: B efore working inside your computer, read the safety information
that shipped with your computer and follow the steps in "Before You Begin" on
page 9. After working inside your computer, follow the instructions in
"After Working Inside Your Computer" on page 11. For more safety best practices,
see the Regulatory Compliance home page at dell.com/regulatory_compliance.
Procedure
1Slide the display cables and antenna cables through the slot on the computer base.
2Place the computer base on the stand assembly and align the screw holes on the
computer base with the screw holes on the stand assembly.
3Replace the screws that secure the computer base to the stand assembly.
4Connect the display cables to the system board.
5Connect the antenna cables to the wireless mini-card.
Postrequisites
Replace the base cover. See "Replacing the Base Cover" on page 17.
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