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Dell Latitude E6540 disassembly and RAM, HDD upgrade options

In this guide, I’ll explain how to disassemble Dell Latitude E6540 to remove the hard drive, DVD drive, palm rest, keyboard, ram, wireless network, cooling fan, and motherboard. Refer to this guide. You can upgrade, repair and clean your Latitude E6540.

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Remove two screws securing the hard drive and pull out the hard drive.

The Dell Latitude E6540 features a Seagate 500GB SSHD hard drive.

Unlock and pull out the optical drive.

Matshita UJ8C2 SATA optical drive

Remove all screws from the bottom case.
Pry up and remove the bottom case.
Under the bottom case, you can get access to the RAM, CMOS battery, wireless card and cooling fan.

Remove two RAMs.

The Dell Latitude E6540 comes with two SK Hynix 4GB DDR3L-12800S RAMs.

Remove one screw securing the wireless card and unplug two antenna cables. You can remove the wireless network card.

The laptop features an Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N 6235 wireless card, DELL P/N: 05K9GJ.

Turn over the laptop. Remove all screws securing the keyboard, Lift up the keyboard and disconnect the keyboard cable. You can remove the keyboard.

In the next step, we will remove the heat sink and cooling fan.

Remove seven screws securing the heat sink and disconnect the fan cable from the motherboard. You can remove it.

Graphics card

Intel processor

Speaker module

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12 Comments

  1. Nice guide, but doesn’t show how to remove the part above the keyboard. My power button is pressed in, wasn’t forced in, just pressed it one day and it just ‘went’ down, and stayed down. Not sure how to open it to fix just that problem.

    1. hey have the same problem with the Latitude E6540 Power button been press down and stayed down, just wondering if you ever found a fix for it i would really appreciated.
      Thx

        1. i discovered that it is connected to the motherboard, so the solution is to get another motherboard and replace. a very great disadvantage

        2. I am looking for a solution to this exact problem as well.

          Did anyone ever figure out how to take apart the area where the power button is?

  2. You forgot to include the screen disassembly. There are no external screws on the display bezel of this model so removing the screen can be a bit tricky.

  3. And must you remove the DVD drive first? (IT installed the screw in the DVD drive’s eject button – thus not allowing the entire drive to be removed.)