Dell Inspiron 15 5547Dell Laptop
Dell Inspiron 15 5547 Disassembly and SSD, RAM, HDD Upgrade Options
In this guide, I’ll explain how to disassemble the Dell Inspiron 15 5547 to remove the RAM, hard drive, wireless card, keyboard, palm rest, heat sink, cooling fan, and motherboard.
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Remove two screws securing the service cover.
Under the cover, you can access the battery, hard drive, RAM, wireless card, and cooling fan.
Remove four screws. The battery can be removed.
Remove four screws securing the hard drive. Lift up the white tape and remove it.
Disconnect the hard drive SATA cable.
This Dell Inspiron 15 5547 features a Seagate 500GB 5400 RPM hard drive.
Disconnect the white cable.
Remove two screws securing the cooling fan and disconnect the cable from the motherboard.
Remove all screws.
Turn over your laptop. Release five plastic tabs on the top of the keyboard.
Lift up the keyboard and disconnect the keyboard cable.
Disconnect the power button cable and touchpad cable.
Remove ten screws securing the palm rest.
Remove the case.
Remove the wireless card.
Remove two screws securing the motherboard.
Disconnect the speaker cable.
Dell Inspiron 15 5547 motherboard
The CPU is soldering on the motherboard.
Graphics card
Hi, I bought this laptop. It’s good, but I wanna know about the fan. Where does it blow the air out? The problem I am facing is when I put it down on the surface, it seems I am blocking its fan air opening; it heats up that way. But I see the opening for the fan at the bottom of the display where it attaches. If it is coming out from the bottom, then this laptop is full of crap as there is no way we can use the laptop without putting it down.
Yes, the fan is at the bottom, but the rubber strips at the bottom and top lift the laptop up a bit, allowing the air to flow. When playing the game, I put a book under the back strip (not covering the fan, of course) so it has more room to flow.
I was wondering if I could add an MSata drive to this model. Some seem to have it from the factory, but mine doesn’t.
hey, I was wondering if you could help me fix the lag problem. I checked the specs of the AMDR7 M265 card; it clearly shows it works perfectly on 1366×768 resolution. Mine has 1920x1080p and I often get lag when playing games. Then I have to drag it down to 1366×768 to be able to play games. but the quality is way too bad. I know I have an HD screen, but is there any way I could play games on 1366 resolution as anyone with the same native resolution plays? If I buy an external monitor with low resolution. Will it solve my problem or do I have to get it replaced from Dell?
I got the same motherboard, only I got the 4-gen i7 processor.
I saw the graphics card too, but how can I remove the graphics card?
Is it even possible?
I took my computer apart up to take out the motherboard (I removed the bottom case, didn’t touch the motherboard) to fix one of the left (on the bottom, by the motherboard) hinge screw threads. After reassembly and pressing the power button, I get 8 beeps and a black screen. The Internet says this is an LCD issue, so I unplugged and plugged the display ( the wire with the black tape next to the fan) to make sure it was in place. Nothing. I got it to display through HDMI to another monitor once yesterday by holding D at startup, but not since. It’s not responding to esc, f12, d, fn. I don’t know what happened and I don’t know how to fix it. Please help.
I bought a Dell Inspiron 5547 Touch with Intel i5 and 8 GB RAM.
its bottom base is damaged, so I changed the bottom base, but I have one doubt: Are all inspiron5547 model bottom bases the same?
Pls reply me!
Yes, all the bottom cases of the 5547 are the same.
Hi, I just got this laptop for Christmas, and I’ve been having some problems connecting to my Wi-Fi. I’ve read that it might be a problem with the wireless card connection. Any idea if it is true?
P.D. I’ve already updated all the drivers.
You can try to replace the Wi-Fi card.
My Inspiron 15 5547 is not booting up. Windows turns up to login user, and the password screen starts blinking. I did a diagnostic test and found the hard drive is not connected. What should I do? Shall I remove the hard drive and re-connect it, and will it work?
Yes! you can try, but I think this problem is caused by the graphics card.
I have the Dell 5547 laptop, and I can’t get into the BIOS to reset it. Is there a way to do it directly on the motherboard?
You can remove the BIOS battery and reinstall it, and your BIOS will be reset.
I have this model. When I switch it on, it doesn’t get on. The CPU and graphic IC get hot, which seems to burn the whole board. So, what is the issue in this case?
Hello, friend
Recently, I dropped my laptop from my table. Afterward, I was unable to connect to Wi-Fi due to a crack near the power button. I contacted an engineer, who told me my laptop’s Wi-Fi antenna cable had broken. Please help me with how to replace the antenna cable. Is the cable replaceable? Thank you
Good day,
I tried to replace my hard drive with the same specifications as the existing one. The only difference is that it has a pre-installed Windows 7 Pro instead of Windows 10. The problem that I am encountering now is that when I turn on my laptop with HDD (Windows 7 installed), it only displays “Checking Media.fail,” and when I check my BIOS, the setting is like this.
UEFI Boot
UEFI onboard LAN IPv4
UEFI onboard LAN IPv6
I guess My HDD was not recognized.
I try to disable the secure boot. Please see the below setting:
Secure Boot :
Load Legacy Option ROM:
Boot List Option
What should I do to proceed with the windows?