Written By: James Rintamaki on February 6, Comments Just purchase a Dell Mini 1012 with the new Atom N450 chip? Want to upgrade the memory, hard drive, or pci-e cards but realized that Dell did not provide a service manual to assist in dismantling it (like they have for most other computers they sell)? Luckily, it’s as simple as removing 4 screws and the keyboard to replace the memory, and then 5 additional screws and prying off the palm rest bracket to get to the pci-e slots! (note — should you decide to follow this guide, do so at your own risk – I take no responsibility for anything you may damage in the process HD Video Guide: Don’t want to watch the video guide? Continue on with the step by step picture guide below! Remove the keyboard The first step is to remove the keyboard. It is held in by (3) screws on the underside of the laptop, as well as it’s data cable. Start out by flipping over the netbook and removing the battery by pressing the clips left and right [blue] to unlock it (then, remove it). Next, remove the (3) keyboard screws [red] – the one in the middle may not easily come out, but you need not worry about it as it will fall out once you actually remove the keyboard. — while you’re at it, go ahead and remove the (4) bottom screws as well (green) – these hold on the palm rest and you’ll need to take them out eventually anyway — With the screws removed, flip it back over and open the screen to like a 90 degree angle and rest the laptop on it’s side. Take a small screw driver (or anything similar) and stick it through one of the left or right (depending what side the laptop is resting on) screw holes. This will push the keyboard out a bit so you can grab a hold of it on the other side in order to pull it out. Don’t pull the keyboard too far away because it is connected to the motherboard by a cable. With the keyboard a bit.
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