Dell Inspiron 11-3147Dell Laptop

Dell Inspiron 11-3147 Disassembly and SSD, RAM, HDD upgrade options

In this guide, I’ll explain how to disassemble Dell Inspiron 11-3147 to remove and replace the battery, hard drive, RAM, touchpad, wireless card, heat sink, cooling fan, speaker, and motherboard.

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Step 1: Remove the bottom case
    • Remove nine screws from the bottom case.

    • Carefully remove the bottom case, you can use a guitar pick to pry up the case.

Step 2: Remove the battery
    • Under the bottom case, you can find the hard drive, battery, RAM, wireless card, speakers, heat sink and cooling fan.

Remove three screws securing the battery. You can remove the battery.

 

  • The laptop using an 11.1v, 43wh Li-ion battery, Dell P/N: GK5KY.

 

 

  • The battery has been removed.

 

Step 3: Remove the RAM
    • Separate the clips. The memory will pop up automatically. Take it away from its slot.

    • It comes with a Samsung 4GB PC3L-12800S memory.

Step 4: Remove the hard drive module
    • Remove the screws securing the hard drive module. Disconnect the SATA cable from the motherboard.

  • The SATA cable
  • The laptop featured a Seagate 500GB 5400 RPM hard drive.
Step 5: Remove the heat sink and cooling fan
    • Remove four screws securing the heat sink. You can remove the heatsink/cooling fan module.

    • Dell Inspiron 11-3147 heatsink/cooling fan module

Step 6: Remove the wireless card
    • Disconnect two antennas and remove one screw securing the wireless card. Take it away from its slot.

    • the wireless card

Step 7: Remove the motherboard
    • The sub-board is connecting to the motherboard via a cable.

    • The cable, remove it.

    • Disconnect touchpad cable and speaker cable. Remove the screws securing the motherboard.
    • Now you can remove the motherboard.

    • The Intel processor

Step 8: Other details
    • The motherboard has been removed.

    • touchpad

    • the sub-board

    • the speaker

For more guides, check out the ell Inspiron 11-3147 device page.

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24 Comments

  1. Hi , can you please help me , I want to replace the 4 gb ram module for the dell inspiron i3147 , but when i try to open it after removing the 9 screws , the botton wont go out , i tried to pried with the flat screwdriver but no luck, it wont come out from the rear or the sides. Can you please help me?
    Fernando

  2. Hi

    I’m wondering how I can reseat the keyboard ribbon cable and where exactly it is and can be accessed easily (hopefully). My internal keyboard stopped working but the USB external KB I have does work. Also strangely enough when the bottom is off the keyboard works +/- ok.

    Best

    Harold

  3. I’m looking at a couple of options from Hynix and Samsung but neither one is showing the ‘S’ at the end of the number, but are just listed as 8GB PC3L-12800.

    Also planning on swapping the drive to the largest hybrid I can get, which I think will probably have 32gb ssd on a 1tb 7mm drive. Any suggestions outside of these two which will bring meaningful improvements?

  4. Hi – I’m wondering how complicated it would be to replace just the plastic display cover which is developing hairline cracks; the display itself works fine. Dell is offering to replace that part with an onsite tech, but I’m wondering if it’s an involved job that could screw things up in the machine, which otherwise works ok.

  5. I want to replace the “stock” Wifi/Bluetooth card with a “better one” – what Intel card can be a replacement ? Most I see have two screw holes and the in place card has only one mounting screw.

  6. in Step 1: Remove the bottom case
    remove nine screws from the bottom case

    what size of all screws? all have the same size or not? thanks

    1. I have the same problem, the (A,Q,1, Tab, Caps Lock) some times dont work, i have to press it several times for they to work

  7. I need to make sure the monitor display connection is tightly connected, since I’ve got a vertical line appearing on my screen. I’ve successfully switched out the memory & HDD in the past but can’t locate the display cable connection. Where is it – help please???

  8. Any recommendation for a replacement SSD, i was looking at the
    Crucial MX300 525GB SATA 2.5″ 7mm (with 9.5mm adapter) Internal SSD
    CT9016090
    525GB 2.5-inch internal SSD • SATA 6.0Gb/s • 530 MB/s Read, 510 MB/s Write

  9. So I just replaced the power adapter cable in my Inspiron 11 3147 because the battery was not charging. That of course entails taking the motherboard out. When I got everything put back together it started charging just fine. I very quickly discovered that there was now a problem with the Bluetooth though. The mouse I’ve been using for ages no longer worked. The computer showed as being paired. I checked the mouse batteries. I removed the mouse and tried to re-add it. Doesn’t find it. I took this mouse and was actually able to pair it with my iPad Pro and use it so that rules out the mouse. Is there a particular cable I may have not gotten attached all the way or something? Everything else on it seems to work normally.

  10. I just want to say thank you.
    this guide helped me to replace the charging port on this laptop!

    thank you VERY MUCH.

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