Upgrade and repair of dell inspiron 5368 2 in 1 for my son.

[kojack]

I finally got all the parts and time to complete the screen repair and upgrades on Colin's new to him dell. Here's a little flow chart of what I did.  I tried to attach pictures but they are all too big in file size.

 

First I gathered everything I needed to do the repairs and upgrades.  I got a new screen, 16gb of crucial ballistix ram, a 480gb kingston a400 ssd (trusty ssds for sata use), a new charger for the system, and some of my Noctua NH-T1 paste.

 

So starting with the screen. I popped apart the screen, which was very easy to do and disconnected all the sensors, camera, and ribbon cable for the panel. I reversed the steps on the new panel and snapped it all into place. One snap on the bottom corner is not going into place correctly so I will fix that after windows and all drivers and upgrades are done.  Fire it up, and LCD and touch is all working. Fix one...complete.

 

Moving on to part 2. I popped out the drive, ram and removed the cpu cooler from the system. I installed the new ram, ssd and cleaned off the crap paste that was on the cpu and gpu cores. I then put some NT-H1 paste on both cores, and installed the cooler again, applying even pressure on the screws going from opposite corners of the cooler. After that was all complete and a dusting was done, I closed up the bottom the system and got my windows 11 install key.

 

I fired up the system, boom...windows installing. Its now installed and I am working on adding the required drivers from Dell to get the system completely new and fresh.  I know one thing. The fans on the little 4405U cpu spin way more than my 1165g7 unit.  Ha ha.

 

Hopefully someone can tell me how to post multiple pictures here. 

 

 

 

 

[Aaron44126]

51 minutes ago, kojack said:

Hopefully someone can tell me how to post multiple pictures here.

 

There's rather limited space for direct uploads.  You can see what you have posted and your quota here: https://notebooktalk.net/attachments/

I find it best to just host images externally.  OneDrive is easy enough (use the "Embed" option in the web UI to get a URL to an image that you have uploaded).  If you paste a URL to an image in the compose box here, it will automatically be converted to an in-line picture.

[kojack]

Here is a photo of the finished project next to my notebook, and his old acer....