Dell Inspiron 13-7347Dell Laptop
Dell Inspiron 13 7000 7347 Disassembly and SSD, RAM, HDD Upgrade Options
In this guide, I’ll explain how to disassemble the Dell Inspiron 13 7000 7347. I will remove the battery, RAM, hard drive, wireless card, palm rest, heat sink, cooling fan, and motherboard.
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- Laptop model: Dell Inspiron 13-7347, P/N: T4GTV A00, made in China.
Step 1: Remove the bottom case
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- Remove ten screws from the bottom case.
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- Pry up and remove the bottom case.
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- After removing the bottom case, you can access the battery, hard drive, RAM, wireless card, speakers, heat sink, and cooling fan.
Step 2: Remove the battery
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- Remove two screws securing the battery.
- Dell Inspiron 13-7347 comes with an 11.1v, 43wh Li-ion battery. Dell part number: GK5KY.
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- Remove the battery
Step 3: Remove the touch stylus
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- Pull out the touch stylus.
Step 4: Remove the RAM
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- Dell Inspiron 13-7347 only has one RAM slot.
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- The Dell Inspiron 13-7347 has a Samsung 8GB PC3L-12800s 1600MHz RAM.
Step 5: Remove the hard drive
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- Remove the screws securing the hard drive, disconnect the SATA cable from the motherboard, and remove the hard drive.
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- Seagate 500GB 5400RPM hard drive
Step 6: Remove the wireless card
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- Disconnect two antenna cables and remove one screw. You can remove the wireless card.
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- The wireless card
Step 7: Remove the cable
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- The little board connects to the motherboard via a cable.
- The cable
Step 8: Remove heat sink and cooling fan
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- Remove two screws securing the cooling fan. Loosen three screws securing the heat sink.
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- The heat sink and cooling fan have been removed.
Step 9: Remove the motherboard
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- Now, you can access the motherboard.
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- The motherboard is very small.
Could you check if the HDD cage could take a 9mm HDD?
I appreciate your help, and thanks for the excellent guide.
Roz, you can have a look at this review. http://www.ultrabookreview.com/5395-dell-inspiron-13/
I think you should go for a 7mm SSD.
The Samsung 840 Pro and Evo are both 7mm.
I have one of these. I swapped out the hard disk with a Samsung SSD 840 EVO 500Gb 7mm. It was very easy, and I am very happy with the result. Apart from the improved performance, it also means that it runs silently most of the time (as the fan doesn’t come on very often) and improves battery life.
Hey, you say you switched your HDD with an SSD? I’ve been trying to do the same and encountered an error at startup. No system image works. It seems the BIOS is rejecting the SSD. Many people have been having this issue. Could you possibly give your tale of accomplishment?
Would you make a video of the steps for how you did that, or point me to one that already exists?
Hi, I also want to install the Samsung 840 EVO SSD. I know the existing drive is 7mm. Will the housing fit a 9.5mm drive?
Thanks!
Just a quick update on this, you can fit a 9.5mm hard drive into the Dell 7347, but only if you remove it from the hard drive enclosure mounting brackets, or if you were to cut off the end of the enclosure bracket that sticks out to the left. The mounting bracket is what prevents the laptop from closing. However, the 9.5mm drive is so tight in there, and there is no need for a mounting bracket.
I can confirm that. Just put a 9,5mm hard drive in. A faulty Inspiron 13 7348 was purchased with no hard drive or HDD enclosure/bracket. I managed to clip the back cover on and screw everything down, and the hard drive is so tight against the back cover that it won’t move.
Do you know if an mSATA card will work in the WLAN slot? Thx
Stupid question, but is the CPU soldered?
Yes! The CPU is soldered to the motherboard.
I think I’ll put in an SSD as well. Right now, I’m looking around for a replacement stylus that fits that slot, as my 3-year-old daughter bit the tip off of mine, which rendered it useless. If anyone has a stylus and they don’t ever use it, I’ll pay you $20 for it! Or if someone knows where I can find a stylus identical to the stock stylus, please share. Dell does not carry the stylus as a separate part.
They do. I just ordered one. Give me your email, and I’ll send you the part.
Hey, I’m going to change the HDD to an SSD. Can I use the Win8.1 OEM license for a clean install? How can I get the key, and which ISO version will I need?
Ok, I just bought this and upgraded it to a Samsung 7mm 120GB drive. The 9mm will not have enough clearance. Please do not open this computer with a flat head. I’m scared of the things you guys are posting. Use a credit card or a guitar pick. run along the seams. Get a 16GB USB flash drive. Install the Dell recovery utility and create bootable media. Then, after the bootable media is verified by booting from it, you should replace the hard drive with a 7mm drive. NOT a 9mm.
Hi Robert,
This definitive confirmation that a 9mm SSD would not fit will be very useful for us who plan to buy an SSD for this laptop.
Appreciate your time to comment on this!
I have a Samsung Evo 500Gb SSD in mine. It’s fantastic.
Only issues
The Samsung Migration software is pretty basic and couldn’t adequately detect the hard disk already in the notebook. However, Drive Clone 10 Free (http://www.farstone.com/software/drive-clone.php) cloned all the partitions on the original drive. No need to reinstall anything :). There is probably other software that can do this as well (e.g., EaseUS).
However, although the computer runs fine, some of the recovery partitions are obviously not quite right, as I cannot produce rescue media, so the previous reviewer’s recommendation to do this first is wise. I still have the original hard drive intact, so I can swap that back in and create the bootable media if I ever need to (or when I have time).
I was wondering if it is possible to upgrade components such as the i3 Core to an i5 or better or the 4GB of RAM to 8GB of RAM? I know there are versions of this with 8GB of RAM and obviously better cores than the i3 mine came with. Thanks for the help, and sorry for the silly question. I received this as a Christmas gift and just want to upgrade parts.
You can almost certainly upgrade the RAM though you will have to take out the 4GB and replace it with 8GB. You cannot add more RAM as there is only one slot.
Thank you for this. It is very helpful.
Do you know if there are any larger batteries for this?
THNX
Thanks for the teardown. I’m interested in checking if I can upgrade the 8GB RAM to a higher capacity later, and if so, what is the maximum RAM this motherboard can support?
It supports 8GB of RAM. About the maximum RAM. You should contact Dell to confirm it.
8GB RAM is the maximum, unfortunately.
Hi,
Has anyone tried to install a 16GB RAM bank? Won’t it boot? Will it see only 8GB?
I know that the CPU supports 16GB of RAM.
Thanks
Hi,
I have tried installing 12GB of RAM (8GB+4GB), and it works without issue. So, I think that installing up to 16GB of RAM will also work.
Great! In the meantime, I’ve changed my Idea and I’ve ordered an XPS 15 (4K screen seems very nice).
SA, which model do you have? I was under the impression there was only 1 RAM slot, not room for an 8+4 stick.
Would there be any batteries with a higher capacity that would be compatible? Forgive my ignorance, but what would be the prospective problems with a larger capacity battery?
If there aren’t any problems with it, does anyone know of a battery that would work? I would love to put a 60Wh battery in instead of the 43Wh one that is in by default.
If you still own this, can you tell me if the SD card slot supports the SD3.0 or SD4.0 standards and what the maximum speed it can achieve is? (i.e., Is it worth buying a big SD card to act as extra storage?) This info is never provided on any machines, but it’s useful for photographers! Does it have the extra row of UHS-II pins, or will it reach UHS-I speeds with a good SD card (around 100Mb/s)?
Does Dell Inspiron (7353) support DDR4 RAM? it’s powered by a 6th-generation Intel Core i7 6500U Skylake processor. Please let me know. Thank you
Dell Inspiron (7353) does not support DDR4 RAM.
Any support for DDR4 SODIMM in this model is unannounced.
Yes, it will fit. The processor supports it. However, as this is still a new model, the only way to find out is to try it for yourself. I have ordered this model and have a stick of DDR4 SODIMM. If it works, I’ll update it.
I have installed a single 16GB SODIMM and it works great. This is what I bought. http://smile.amazon.com/dp/B013VPQEE6/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=3EOWMVH67PJY5&coliid=I3SXCG95DPQ3WT
What brand was it? The link to the one you got is no longer offered.
Please do let me know if it works. If it does, this will be a groundbreaking discovery. 😉
@Darkpacifist. Please do let me know if the DDR4 RAM works. 🙂
The RAM works great and is even lower priced than before.
@Darkpacifist. Did the DDR4 RAM work? Can you provide me with the link to the DDR4 where you purchased it from (model number)? Thanks
Hi. If anyone still has the 13″ 7347 Inspiron and has torn it down. I spilled coffee on the keyboard and ordered a replacement. I can not find a how-to anywhere online on how to change just the keyboard and not the frame or palm rest, as a whole. Has anyone gone farther than the directions above and gotten to or replaced the keyboard? Thanks!
To replace the keyboard on a Dell Inspiron 13-7347, you need to remove all internal parts to access the keyboard. You can download a service manual from the Dell website.
Thank you, David. I will look for that.
I cannot find any manuals that show how to remove the keyboard from the keyboard palm rest unit. Does anyone have any information on this process? Thank you.
I am still looking for instructions on how to remove the keyboard from the palm rest frame and just replace the keyboard only. Does anyone know how to replace the keyboard part of the frame?
My 13-7347 has a 1080×720 display, but I am aware that another version has a 1980×1020 display. Since my screen has an issue, can I upgrade to a new display?