Dell Vostro 3446 Disassembly

In this guide, I will explain how to disassemble the Dell Vostro 3446 to remove the DVD drive, hard drive, keyboard, palm rest, wireless card, RAM, heat sink, cooling fan, speakers, and motherboard.

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• • Unlock and remove the battery.

• • The Dell Vostro 3446 comes with a 40Wh battery.

• • Remove the screw securing the service cover. Use a pry bar to slowly pry open the service cover and remove it.
  • Under the service cover, you can access the hard drive, RAM, and wireless card.

• • Use your nails to pry open the clips on both sides of the memory module, and the memory module will automatically pop out.

• • The laptop comes with a Samsung 4GB memory module.

• • Remove the screw securing the hard drive assembly. Lift the black tape and slide it to the left to disconnect it from the motherboard.

• • The laptop features a 500GB Seagate hard drive.

• • Disconnect the two antenna cables and remove the screw securing the wireless card.

• • Wireless card

• • Remove all screws from the bottom cover.

• • Pull out the DVD drive.

• • Turn over your laptop. Insert a plastic pry tool under the keyboard and slowly pry it up. Lift the keyboard and disconnect the keyboard cable from the motherboard.

• • The keyboard has been removed.

• • Disconnect the two cables and remove the three screws securing the palm rest.

• • Insert a plastic pry tool under the palm rest and slide it to completely separate the palm rest from the laptop.
    Before fully removing the palm rest, you must also disconnect the touchpad ribbon cable from the motherboard.

• • The USB board is connected to the motherboard via a white data cable.

• • Disconnect the white cable.

• • The USB board has been removed.

• • The speaker is fixed by a holder. Disconnect the speaker cable and remove the speaker.

• • Two speakers

• • Remove all screws securing the motherboard and disconnect all cables from the motherboard. You can remove the motherboard.

• • You can see that the heat sink is very long. Loosen the five screws. You can remove the heat sink.

• • The cooling system has been removed.

The processor of the Dell Vostro 3446 is soldered directly onto the motherboard, so it cannot be upgraded.

Dell Vostro 3446 internal parts