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    DVD / Bluray Drive Swap Guide/Help

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by hitokiri1, Apr 22, 2010.

  1. hitokiri1

    hitokiri1 Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey guys, I have to send back my studio XPS 1645 the thing is I have a Bluray drive in the system but the original configuration is a DVD slot load drive. I would like to take the bluray drive out and put the original slot load drive back in (a dell tech did this for me last time) I was wondering if anyone knows of a guide or a wants to walk me through the process of doing a drive replacement.

    any help would be appreciated. so far i've only gone as far as removing the LCD Connectors and heatsync to apply thermal paste. Hopefully this is not overly complicated however I do know that it requires going in from the top and bottom to change the drive.

    Anyway. thanks.
     
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    oh great thanks! that actually seems pretty simple.
     
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    yea actually doesn't seem to bad, i had a dell tech replace the bad dvd drive in my 1645 and he pulled the heat sink off the cpu/gpu...now looking at the directions is there any reason he should have even pulled the heat sink?

    When you swap your drives let me know if you have to pull the heatsink...

    As a result i now have heat issues with my gpu and somewhat with the cpu...so they are coming back out :(
     
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    yeah whenever i've had techs come out and move the heatsink i always end up with fans blowing out of control because they never put the thing on correctly the second time. Or they never re apply thermal paste they just stick the old garbage back on there.
     
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