Palm-Rest And Keyboard Assembly; Removing The Palm-Rest And Keyboard Assembly - Dell Latitude 3330 Service Manual

Palm-rest and keyboard assembly

Removing the palm-rest and keyboard assembly

Prerequisites
1. Follow the procedure in
2. Remove the base cover.
3. Remove the 3-cell battery
4. Remove the M.2 2230 solid-state drive
5. Remove the wireless card.
6. Remove the thermal fan.
7. Remove the thermal heat-sink.
8. Remove the coin-cell
9. Remove the display assembly.
10. Remove the I/O board.
11. Remove the power button
12. Remove the speakers.
13. Remove the touchpad.
14. Remove the system board.
NOTE: The system board can be removed with the thermal heat-sink attached to it in order to simplify the procedure
and preserve the thermal bond between the system board and the thermal heat-sink.
15. Remove the power-adapter
About this task
NOTE: The palm-rest assembly cannot be further disassembled once all the pre-removal parts procedures are completed. If
the keyboard is malfunctioning and is required to be replaced, replace the entire palm-rest assembly.
The image below shows the palm-rest assembly after the pre-removal parts procedures have been performed for any palm-rest
assembly replacement.
64 Removing and installing components
Before working inside your
or the 4-cell battery, whichever applicable.
or the M.2 2280 solid-state
battery.
or the power button with fingerprint
port.
computer.
drive, whichever applicable.
reader, whichever applicable.