Lots of folks saying the fans were dirty - they were fine. The light colouring you're seeing is the metal underside of the keyboard _through_ the fans. There's a little surface dust on the fan blades, sure, but this doesn't block airflow. I don't consider it worthwhile to spend another 30mins removing and opening up the fan housing to carefully detail-clean the rotors. Actual fluff and dust bunnies, those should definitely be cleaned, but none of that was present.

I did exactly the same repair to my daughter’s laptop following one of your earlier videos. Great success. Cheers mate..

I've had to replace ALL PLASTICS on this exact model - the bottom cover was cracked and the LAN port plastic was completely loose, the screen lid had the exact same problem as here, the keyboard was missing 2 keys (W and A) and some other keys were simply not registering a button press.... and sadly, in this model, the keyboard is an integral part of the palmrest. So yeah, the only OG parts left were the motherboard with its cooling, the speakers, touchpad ... and the display with webcam. $350 in parts plus 3 hours of labour. We should've charged the customer a bit more than we did, but seing as the laptop's value was around $700, we thought to cut him a bit of a deal. Fun times.

I repaired hinge on my laptop. Thank you!

To think your video comes out the day before someone contacts me to repair the exact same laptop for a similar issue. This has adequately prepared me for the repair process.

New plastic cabinet & hinges too. The owner will love it. Excellent work. A sincere congratulations. Thank you very much for sharing. All the best.

Another successful rebuild, and I always love the attention to detail! Cheers!

I've bought from Cambridge Accesories before and would recommend them. Their grading scheme is fair - Grade 'A' will be practically perfect and, in my experience, even grade 'C' components will have some signs of wear but no damage.

My wife body slammed my laptop “accidentally “ and the plastic housing cracked around most of the screws. I probably broke the rest prying it apart. This was the EXACT repair video that I needed. However, it just convinced me that doing it correctly was too much work. I just drilled 10 holes through the back and secured the hinges to the back cover with 8 zip ties. Took like 5 minutes. Now I have the most beautiful red neck gaming rig . . . Until the hinges fail.

nice!.. satisfying sound of the glue pull tab!

Thanks again Graham another fine video.

Done watching, thank you very much for the informative repair video. I have learned significantly more troubleshooting & repair lessons in this tutorial video and to your other repair videos as well compared to my ENTIRE 4 YEARS OF COLLEGE due to the rotten & outdated standards of education here in the Philippines. I hope you will soon have a mini-series for Schematic & Boardview-free Voltage/Power Rail Tracing[12V/18-20V Main Voltage Rail, 5V, 3.3V, CPU/GPU Core Voltage Rail, DRAM Voltage Rail, IGPU Voltage Rail, System Agent/Northbridge Voltage Rail, PCH Voltage Rail, BIOS Voltage Rail, Battery Power Rail], Proper method of testing/checking of potentially faulty MOSFETs & ICs/Controller Chips, CPU/GPU/PCH Reballing and BIOS Bin File Editing.

Modern laptops are .... not used here. Rocking old stuff Like a Lenovo T-500 with SSD and GNU Linux, and hoping for some lifespan. We live on the wrong side of the pond to have you fixing things for me, grin.

Dude, you got a Dell!

Great job again.

Unsure if this is just coincidence, but just got an issue about this laptop just recently. Video is perfect for me! Unsure if it’s the hinges themselves that’s the issue (VERY recently happened & learning about it), but at the least I saw that the latches that snap into place for the lid & bezel, parts of it have snapped. Will take time to see if I can fix it (hopefully it goes successfully), but your video will help immensely.

great, easy to follow video. he didn't miss any steps, no weird jumps or anything. would've been nice to have some text to let us know that the video made a small mistake at the part where you put the wires on incorrectly around the hinges, so that we wouldn't also have to accidentally make the same mistake. However, not a problem and it was an easy fix. thanks for the video

I have a G3, It's not the strongest laptop ever made but that thing has been abused. I'm surprised you didn't clean the fan while it was apart.

Awesome mate Best regards Andrew

Yes, the manufacturers are just not quite there when it comes to build quality. Balancing build cost/weight/reliability is never quite what you want. If you're aware of the structural weaknesses (and care about it enough) then you can have a laptop last a lot longer. Several guidelines are: - Don't open a laptop hinge when it is excessively cold. Ensure you haven't left something on the keyboard before closing the lid. Never carry a laptop when it's open by the screen section - and so on... These problems were partly negated with things like ruggedization for example in the Panasonic tough-book series. But this comes at a high cost and they generally are a lot heavier than a standard laptop and a lot harder to service. They are also generally purchased for use in much worse environments than a laptop would normally see so they tend not to last longer anyway. Edit: On a personal experience point I would ensure the web-cam PCB is secured and there's a little bit of slack in the cable - they do work loose over time through opening and closing the lid and suddenly the customer has no web-cam.

All laptops made in the last 6 years do this for a pass time unfortunately. Saying that 840/820 g3/4 elitebooks are faultless with hinges Great repair as always Graham

Beefy laptop! Lot of weight on those hinges

Just picked this laptop up locally for $40 as it has the same problem . Good thing parts are cheap for this unit.

GREAT VIDEO ON HE 5570 INSPIRON HINGES - I REALLY HAVE TO ASK YOU FOR A FAVOUR - THE HINGES THAT HAVE A NUT TO ADJUST THE STRENGTH NEED TO OPEN AND CLOSE THE NOTEBOOK - WHAT SIZE WOULD THE TOOL BE? PLEASE? TKS!!!! AGAIN - THE VIDEO IT IS A 10!!!!!

This happens to loads of our corporate Vostro i5-3510's, all the time. Its a manufacturing defect, but Dell repeatedly deny it and wont replace it under warranty. We've sent s**tloads of the things away for repairs and got more use out of them, but it shouldnt be happening in the first place.

The old HP Spectre XT is a hinge nightmare, i have changed hundreds and also panels

I needed extra screws for a laptop that my brother had tried cleaning and then some screws were missing and others were just wrong. The only place I found them at retail was Temu. Otherwise it's only wholesale by the thousands.

Very nice - Must have cost them a fair bit to get that fixed, but it's worth it. After shopping around for months, (Even considering a micro PC with Ryzen 6800HS for £420), I decided to get an older quality laptop (A Gigabyte Aero 14 with i7 7700 & GTX 1050 Ti for £230), and get it upgraded to WIIN 11 because I don't like the idea that RAM is soldered onto the mother board of modern laptops, especially after paying a fortune for a modern one that's capable of running games. Iv'e got some Thermal Grizzly - Kryonaut but I'm just waiting for a T6 torx to arrive to get the back off, but was unsure about the amount of thermal paste ide have to use - So watching your vid is helpful - Good work, well done.

The screen connector can be 40-pin for touch-enabled panels too. Don't ask me how I know that (i will be big sad again).

I took mine and just put bolts through

Hello sir , I don’t recall if I have commented to you I know I the live streaming I did those need to return but just wanted to say hello from Miami Florida USA

Спасибо большое!Очень информативное видео.

Since you have it a part why not take time to clean the fans

Why did you not clean the dust in the fans ??

Is that a miniware screwdriver you are using? I am considering getting one but its quite pricey especially for "I just can't be bothered to turn my perfectly fine wera screwdriver". Do you like it?

i manually opened a hing on my laptop when i did the same cable mistake and without opening yhe whole lid i broken the sceen, right near the hinge, would be safer if you just reopened the lid to change the cables

Hi sorry to Ask on a unrelated vidéo but i don't manage to found the JCMOS on a Toshiba sattelite c55 c 131. Non battery CMOS ans no jumper founded . Could you help me?

Dell have had some huge issues with hinges and garbage inserts these past few years haven't they... I don't get what is so hard about it. I even have a Dell with an entirely aluminium chassis but for some idiotic reasons they still attached plastic holding the brass inserts which inevitably cracks, they didn't used to do this before around 2017. Dell do tend to use a 40 pin eDP connector for 120Hz+ displays these days, there are some 120Hz with 30 pin models though.

One of the fans looked like it was pretty jammed up with dust?

Is the gpu fan clogged with dust?

U could just use epoxy glue to glue hinges.

Thst right hand fan was buggging me Graham, you blew the back panel vents but the fan needed a good blow too, any good job mate.

The fans looked pretty gross.lol

I've had my laptop, Asus GL502, for about 7 years and it has no problems at all despite being used every day so when you say modern laptops are crap you should have said "some".

Strange looking macbook this time 😂. Enjoyed the video

I can repair that broken area with permanent solution, with unnoticeable work.

Dell make a THIRD line of gaming laptops?. Is XPS and Alienware not enough?!

Adam I cant believe you failed to clean out the fans - the most important item for heat pipe cooling. All that for nothing. Meaning a partially blocked air flow wont move air Especially for a high powered unit like that one...

I like to request a windows 11 service video please. Thanks !✌

i will fix old ones.

Hi adaman, i was creating full courses, i hope you like it too

well nice but probably lenovo laptops are probably better because of the hinge

parts are mega cheap for his model!

use wd40