Dell Inspiron 14 7000Dell Laptop

Dell Inspiron 14 7437 disassembly and SSD, RAM upgrade options

I will show you how to disassemble Dell Inspiron 14 7437 to remove and replace the keyboard, SSD, RAM, palm rest, wireless card, cooling fan, bottom case, and motherboard. Refer to this guide, you can upgrade, repair and clean your Inspiron 14 7437.

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Remove all screws from the bottom case.

A total of eight screws on the bottom case

When all screws removed, the bottom case can be removed.

There is a spare 2.5-inch hard drive bay, mean you can add a 2.5-inch hard drive for your laptop.

Dell Inspiron 14 7437 with dual cooling fan

This Dell Inspiron 14 7437 features 58wh Li-ion battery, Dell P/N: 5KG27.

Remove the battery.

When the battery removed, you can access the keyboard and touchpad.

Intel® Dual Band Wireless-N 7260 wireless card, it supports 802.11n, dual-band, 2×2 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0.

Remove three screws securing the speaker modules and disconnect the cable from the motherboard.

Speaker modules

Motherboard

Built-in Memory, heat sink secured by three screws.

Dual cooling fan

Intel® Core™ i7-4500U 1.8 GHz processor (4M Cache, up to 3.00 GHz), Integrated Intel® HD Graphics 4400

Micron C400 256GB mSATA SSD

When the motherboard removed, you can remove and replace the keyboard for your laptop.

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9 Comments

  1. Hi there,

    this is René from germany. I’m not an IT expert. So, please can you tell me where the RAM is located? Can`t see it. I’ve read something about, that it is possible to extend the 8GB up to 16GB. Is that right?

    Best regards,

    René

    1. It is on the motherboard. Look at the 3d picture of the motherboard. I don’t know about expanding the RAM, but I don’t think so.
      Good Luck!
      ~V

    1. Have you got pixel lines coming up in your screen too? I’ve got that at the moment and looking for a strip down so I can replace it

  2. The worst laptop interior design ever. Whole design is bad. non-upgradable memory, Be very careful, as the cables love to just pull out with the slightest touch….good luck getting it back in. I was going to upgrade the Msata but no way… you take this laptop apart and being as flimsy as it is… you’ll never get it back right. I’ve got one in pieces at the moment. Should have stopped at the SSD. Thats easy, but be careful with the adapter to the drive, the ribbon it’s connected to LOVES to pull out and you’ll never get it back in. I had to source another from dell-parts.com. They have everything by model and sub model… even system correct screws. Anyhow, stick with the SSD upgrade … toss a Samsung EVO 850 or 850 Pro (not a huge delta, but best on the market imo – speed and reliabiity. Crucial is good as well – just a tad slower than the sammy. (example — testing on my machine) Crucial Read: 490, Write: 370MB/s – the 850 non-pro came in at 560MB/s read and 515MB/s write. So you lose a tad on write but the drive is usually about $50-75 cheaper than the 850. Also check the 840 for a deal.

    I got this machine via a dell trick… sent two machines (my main is a Latitude 7450 – 16gb ram, 1TB SSD (850PRO). I7-Core… with it this laptop came. I went to return and they said “if we sell it to you for $200 off will you keep it? ” lol no… I’ll pay $200 for this now well used machine in the last 30 minutes. Whats my RMA? got it for $250 shipped. Perfect for my 7 year old. The msata was 128GB… if you’re gonna put it in the hardest place to swap… put a bigger one in to start, dunno what dell was thinking. Should have put it where the Wifi card is, Otherwise… whole machine comes apart. That’s not going back together right.

  3. thanks for this video that I can finally locate the memory. the problem is can I upgrade this memory by myself…?

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