TY so much my dude, especially the warning about the corner screws. Got given one today, buddy says it just wouldn't power out (he bought a new/upgraded laptop anyways). Pretty sure his old charger was dead. This Alienware was in storage for a bit. Borrowed a charger to diagnose, and heard sizzling bacon when I plugged it in... Your vid helped me find the fault. Iz a bad mofset or SOIC near the charger jack input :( suuuch a tease. Was totally gonna refurbish and keep this one!
Are the batteries of laptops supposed to be perfectly flat or are they aloud to be slightly convexed, and how long should the battery life on this type of computer with nothing running? Great video by the way.
Hey, I know this might be a late response, but the batteries should be flat. Once they are starting to become convex, they are becoming more of a risk than its worth. The deformation alone can damage the laptop structure and its components.
Yes, there is no other way. You cant really blow it with compressed air as the dust has compacted to cotton wool like matter. BTW this fan is fairly easy to access. There are some laptops where you have to fully disassemble it - even remove the motherboard.
I know this video is old but I just cleaned my alienware 15 r3 and now my keyboard isn't working, I just checked to see if everything is plugged in but nothing was out of place, any ideas?
I would like to ask of what is the cause of burning the dc jack of R2??? I remove the battery then i connect the charger and it turns out burn. It beeps 4times. What does it mean?
It's worth it. Still plays most games at 1080p with a good framerate on high settings and it is excellent for video editing etc still. I have upgraded mine to 32gb of ram and another ssd 1tb.
@ sellbroke, my nephew screwed up my laptop key (W) and now i have to press hard for it to work. i wanted to find a way to fix and disassemble the laptop and keys but you didn't cover the keyboard part. I'm not a computer guy and i kinda don't wanna risk disassembling my laptop. Do you know how to fix the key issue? Or does anyone here know how to fix it? I'd really appreciate it.
LoL CPU and GPU are soldered to a mainboard, what a pity... This COULD be a goog computer if you could replace cpu/gpu (broken one, or just add a never one).
Felt like i was preforming a surgery even with the help of the video :D
TY so much my dude, especially the warning about the corner screws.
Got given one today, buddy says it just wouldn't power out (he bought a new/upgraded laptop anyways).
Pretty sure his old charger was dead. This Alienware was in storage for a bit. Borrowed a charger to diagnose, and heard sizzling bacon when I plugged it in... Your vid helped me find the fault. Iz a bad mofset or SOIC near the charger jack input :( suuuch a tease. Was totally gonna refurbish and keep this one!
Are the batteries of laptops supposed to be perfectly flat or are they aloud to be slightly convexed, and how long should the battery life on this type of computer with nothing running?
Great video by the way.
Hey, I know this might be a late response, but the batteries should be flat. Once they are starting to become convex, they are becoming more of a risk than its worth. The deformation alone can damage the laptop structure and its components.
Hey would I have to suture anything back on? If not I might replace the fan myself.
I just want to clean my fan. And I have to do all of these things 😔
@Tony Peacham Came here for the same reason: I just want to clean my fans
Same man and what’s that wrist thing u need
Same here and there's not 1 video explaining how to clean fans for the AW 15 R3 / 15 R4...super annoying
Yes, there is no other way. You cant really blow it with compressed air as the dust has compacted to cotton wool like matter. BTW this fan is fairly easy to access. There are some laptops where you have to fully disassemble it - even remove the motherboard.
I need to replace one of my fans. I'd hope it wouldn't be so much work but replacing the battery was a chore as well.
I know this video is old but I just cleaned my alienware 15 r3 and now my keyboard isn't working, I just checked to see if everything is plugged in but nothing was out of place, any ideas?
step 1 : disconect batery
Do you have to remove the motherboard to remove/replace the two fans?
did you have to do it? I have the same question now
How can I change my wireless network adapter?
I would like to ask of what is the cause of burning the dc jack of R2??? I remove the battery then i connect the charger and it turns out burn. It beeps 4times. What does it mean?
can u show how to replace the battery please?
We did.... watch until 6:10, then reinstallation is exactly the reverse from there.
wow only one heat pipe for each, im going to guess the thermals sucked?
I just ordered it. Is it worth the money guys?
Not these days
It's worth it. Still plays most games at 1080p with a good framerate on high settings and it is excellent for video editing etc still. I have upgraded mine to 32gb of ram and another ssd 1tb.
It his can play games at 1080p with good framate sometimes can be little to loud, but if you have headphones you will not notice.
I bent a pin where the display plugs in because my dumb ass put the plug in the wrong way so I jammed a toothpick in there until it was straight
After disassemble and reassemble my Alien 15 laptop, it shows “checking media presence” on my screen. Do you know what happened?
Yes, go to bios and set your boot priority to windows boot manager.
@ sellbroke, my nephew screwed up my laptop key (W) and now i have to press hard for it to work. i wanted to find a way to fix and disassemble the laptop and keys but you didn't cover the keyboard part. I'm not a computer guy and i kinda don't wanna risk disassembling my laptop. Do you know how to fix the key issue? Or does anyone here know how to fix it? I'd really appreciate it.
You have to complete all the steps, please be careful with those 3 connectors underneath the motherboard just before getting access to the keyboard.
pretty sure u need a new keyboard. same thing happened to me
My w key is also fucked but it still works enough
Very good
nice
LoL CPU and GPU are soldered to a mainboard, what a pity... This COULD be a goog computer if you could replace cpu/gpu (broken one, or just add a never one).
Все показал, кроме того, как снять клавиатуру(((((