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Article Number: 000129747

Latitude 5290 Teardown removal guide for customer replaceable units (CRUs)

Summary: The following article is a guide to the removal and installation of the Dell Latitude 5290 laptop parts that Dell allows anyone to do.

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Article Content

Symptoms

These guides take you step by step through the safe removal of the Customer Replaceable Unit (CRU) parts of a Latitude 5290 laptop. (CRUs are the parts of the laptop that do not need an engineer to remove or replace.) The guides include pictures referencing what is involved.

Table of Contents:

  1. CRU Removal Guide
  2. Removal Instructions

Cause

Removal Guide

 

If these guides do not cover what you are looking to do, you must reference your System Manual.

The article below provides information about safe practices to consider before working with electrical equipment.


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Resolution

Removal Instructions

 

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Required Tools

1 Small Phillip's head screwdriver 2 Plastic Scribe
3 Small Flat head screwdriver    
 
Note: Using a large Phillips or Flat Head screwdriver may result in damage to the head of the screws. This would make their removal impossible without specialty tools. Tools that are not available to our onsite engineers.

 

  1. Pre-Removal instructions before removing the Main Access Panel:

    1. During installation or removal of any hardware always ensures that all data is backed up properly.

    2. Disconnect any telephone, network, or USB cables from the computer.

    3. Disconnect the computer and all attached devices from their electrical outlets.

  2. Turn the laptop over on its lid and loosen the eight (8) captive screws that secure the cover to the base [1].

Cover

  1. Using a plastic scribe pry up the cover at the rear edge of the laptop [2] and lift it away from the base.

Cover 02

 

  1. Pre-Removal instructions before removing the Battery:

    1. During installation or removal of any hardware always ensures that all data is backed up properly.

    2. Disconnect any telephone, network, or USB cables from the computer.

    3. Disconnect the computer and all attached devices from their electrical outlets.

    4. Remove the Bottom Access Panel.

  2. With the laptop closed and sitting on its side, disconnect the battery cable from the motherboard [1] and unroute the cable from the routing channel.

  3. Loosen the captive securing screw from the right-hand side of the battery [2].

Battery

  1. Lift the battery up and out of the laptop [3].

Latitude 5290 Battery removal - Duration 0:40 - English Only

 

  1. Pre-Removal instructions before removing the Keyboard:

    1. During installation or removal of any hardware always ensures that all data is backed up properly.

    2. Disconnect any telephone, network, or USB cables from the computer.

    3. Disconnect the computer and all attached devices from their electrical outlets.

    4. Remove the Bottom Access Panel and Battery.

  2. With the laptop open and using a plastic scribe, pry the keyboard lattice up from the edge closest to the LCD [1]. Lift it up and away from the keyboard [2].

KEYBOARD

  1. Close the laptop and turn it over onto its lid. Lift the latch and disconnect the main keyboard cable from the motherboard [1] and then do the same for the backlight cable [2].

KEYBOARD 02

  1. Turn the laptop over onto its base and open the lid. Remove the five (5) screws that secure the keyboard to the laptop [1].

KEYBOARD 03

  1. Using a plastic scribe, pry the keyboard up from the touchpad edge and lift it away from the laptop [2]. (Watch out for the keyboard cables when removing the keyboard from the laptop.)

KEYBOARD 04

Latitude 5290 Keyboard removal - Duration 0:57 - English Only

 

  1. Pre-Removal instructions before removing the Coin Cell Battery:

    1. During installation or removal of any hardware always ensures that all data is backed up properly.

    2. Disconnect any telephone, network, or USB cables from the computer.

    3. Disconnect the computer and all attached devices from their electrical outlets.

    4. Remove the Bottom Access Panel and Battery.

  2. Close the laptop and turn it onto its lid and disconnect the coin-cell battery cable from the motherboard [1]. Peel the coin-cell battery off the adhesive backing and lift it out of the laptop [2].

Coin-Cell

 

  1. Pre-Removal instructions before removing the Memory:

    1. During installation or removal of any hardware always ensures that all data is backed up properly.

    2. Disconnect any telephone, network, or USB cables from the computer.

    3. Disconnect the computer and all attached devices from their electrical outlets.

    4. Remove the Bottom Access Panel and Battery.

  2. With laptop sitting on its lid, pull the clips securing the memory DIMM away from each other. The DIMM appears at an angle from the motherboard [1].

Memory

  1. Lift the module up and out of the memory connector [2].

Note: Repeat steps two and three for any additional Memory DIMMs located in the laptop.

 

 

  1. Pre-Removal instructions before removing the Solid State Drive (SSD) Card:

    1. During installation or removal of any hardware always ensures that all data is backed up properly.

    2. Disconnect any telephone, network, or USB cables from the computer.

    3. Disconnect the computer and all attached devices from their electrical outlets.

    4. Remove the Bottom Access Panel and Battery.

  2. With the laptop on its lid, peel off the adhesive mylar shield from the SSD card [1]. (Be careful when taking this off, you need it for when you install the new card.)

  3. Remove the single screw that secures the card to the laptop [2].

SSD

  1. Slide the SSD card out of the connector and lift it out of the laptop [3].

 

Note: Those computers with the 2230 SSD fitted are used with a specific holder to secure that card in place. For those with this holder in their computer, follow the instructions below.

  1. Pre-Removal instructions before removing the Solid State Drive (SSD) Holder:

    1. During installation or removal of any hardware always ensures that all data is backed up properly.

    2. Disconnect any telephone, network, or USB cables from the computer.

    3. Disconnect the computer and all attached devices from their electrical outlets.

    4. Remove the Bottom Access Panel and Battery.

  2. With the laptop sitting on its lid, remove the single securing screw from the SSD holder [1]. Slide the holder and card out of the connector and lift it out of the laptop [2].

SSD 02

 

  1. Pre-Removal instructions before removing the Solid State Drive (SSD) Frame:

    1. During installation or removal of any hardware always ensures that all data is backed up properly.

    2. Disconnect any telephone, network, or USB cables from the computer.

    3. Disconnect the computer and all attached devices from their electrical outlets.

    4. Remove the Bottom Access Panel, Battery, and the SSD Card.

  2. Having removed the SSD card, remove the single screw securing the SSD frame to the laptop [1].

SSD 03

  1. Lift the SSD frame away from the laptop [2].

Latitude 5290 Solid-State Drive removal - Duration 0:45 - English Only

 

  1. Pre-Removal instructions before removing the Hard Disk Drive (hard drive):

    1. During installation or removal of any hardware always ensures that all data is backed up properly.

    2. Disconnect any telephone, network, or USB cables from the computer.

    3. Disconnect the computer and all attached devices from their electrical outlets.

    4. Remove the Bottom Access Panel and Battery.

  2. With the laptop on its lid, disconnect the hard drive cable from the motherboard [1].

HDD

  1. Remove the four (4) screws that secure the hard drive to the laptop [2].

  2. Take the drive out of the laptop and remove the hard drive cable from the back of the drive.

  3. Remove the four (4) screws that secure the hard drive bracket to the drive and remove it.

Latitude 5290 Hard Drive removal - Duration 0:47 - English Only

 

  1. Pre-Removal instructions before removing the SIM Card:

    1. During installation or removal of any hardware always ensures that all data is backed up properly.

    2. Disconnect any telephone, network, or USB cables from the computer.

    3. Disconnect the computer and all attached devices from their electrical outlets.

  2. Insert something long and thin, like a straightened paper clip or SIM card removal tool into the hole. The hole is located on the bottom-left corner of the SIM card tray [1].

  3. Pull the SIM card tray out [2].

SIM

  1. Place the SIM on the card tray [3] and put the card back into the side of the chassis until it clicks in place.

 

  1. Pre-Removal instructions before removing the WWAN CARD (3G, Cellular):

    1. During installation or removal of any hardware always ensures that all data is backed up properly.

    2. Disconnect any telephone, network, or USB cables from the computer.

    3. Disconnect the computer and all attached devices from their electrical outlets.

    4. Remove the Bottom Access Panel and Battery.

  2. With the laptop sitting on its lid, remove the single screw that secures the card bracket to the motherboard. The bracket is located at the rear left-hand side corner of the laptop [1].

  3. Remove the bracket from the laptop [2] and disconnect the antenna cables from the WWAN card [3]. (The antenna cables end in a press stud connector, they pop on and off with a little pressure.)

WWAN

  1. Slide the card out of the connector on the motherboard and lift the card out of the laptop [4].

 

  1. Pre-Removal instructions before removing the WLAN Card (WiFi, Wireless):

    1. During installation or removal of any hardware always ensures that all data is backed up properly.

    2. Disconnect any telephone, network, or USB cables from the computer.

    3. Disconnect the computer and all attached devices from their electrical outlets.

    4. Remove the Bottom Access Panel and Battery.

  2. With the laptop sitting on its lid, remove the single screw that secures the card bracket to the motherboard. The screw is located below the heat sink fan-in the laptop [1].

  3. Remove the bracket from the laptop [2] and disconnect the antenna cables from the WLAN card [3]. (The antenna cables end in a press stud connector, they pop on and off with a little pressure.)

WLAN

  1. Slide the card out of the connector on the motherboard and lift the card out of the laptop [4].

Additional Information

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Article Properties

Affected Product

Latitude 5290

Last Published Date

05 May 2023

Version

5

Article Type

Solution

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