Dell Inspiron 15 7537Dell Laptop
Dell Inspiron 15 7537 Disassembly and RAM, HDD Upgrade Options
In this post, I will explain how to disassemble the Dell Inspiron 15 7537 to remove and replace the keyboard, battery, hard drive, RAM, palm rest, wireless card, cooling fan, bottom case, and motherboard.
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Remove six screws from the bottom case.
Separate the bottom case from the LCD hinges.
Here’s the bottom case
When the bottom case is removed, you can get access to the battery, hard drive, wireless card, and two RAM.
Remove three screws securing the battery
Lift up the black tape and remove the battery.
The laptop comes with a 58wh Li-ion battery, Dell P/N: F7HVR.
Remove two screws securing the hard drive.
Lift up and remove the hard drive module.
Dell Inspiron 15 7537 hard drive module
The laptop comes with a Samsung 1000GB 5400 RPM SATA3 hard drive.
Remove one screw securing the wireless card.
Unplug two antenna cables.
Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 wireless card with Bluetooth 4.0, Dell P/N: 09VVTM.
Turn over the laptop and remove the keyboard.
Remove all screws securing the palm rest.
Disconnect four cables from the motherboard.
Remove the middle frame.
Under the middle frame, you can get access to the speaker, touchpad, USB board, heat sink, and cooling fan.
USB board connecting to the motherboard by a data cable, Dell P/N: 097M4H
The USB cable
Separate two clips and the RAM will pop up.
Dell Inspiron 15 7537 features two SK Hynix 4GB PC3L-12800S 1600MHz memory.
Remove six screws securing the heat sink.
Disconnect the fan cable from the motherboard. You can remove the heat sink.
Intel® Core™ i7-4500U processor (4M Cache, up to 3.00 GHz)
Remove the motherboard.
Hello there!
Nice guide. I have 1 question. What is this port for? Was it used before disassembly? https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ucemg9ktpa9n99/port.PNG
I am finding a workaround for how to connect mSata SDD to this notebook.
Thank you for your answer. Daniel
I would also like to update the 7537 with the mSATA SSD. As we can see, there is only one missing connector on the USB daughter board. So my question is: if I solder the missing connector to the daughter board, will the mSATA still work?
Did you solder the mSATA connector? work?
It is a half-mini PCI-Express. You can probably upgrade it, but you have to remove the wireless LAN card.
Hi, I have 2 questions. Can we change the CPU to 4700hq or 4700mq? And
Can we add a second HDD
Yes, you can change to 4700mq, but no way to add a second HDD.
@Kamil
I haven’t soldered the mSata connector yet, but I have it at home waiting to be soldered. I ordered from China for around 2$
Ok, I’ve disassembled my 7537 to take a look at what’s going on with this mysterious mSATA/USB board. Is it possible to solder the mSATA connector which I’ve bought?
First, my mSATA connector doesn’t fit the board connections because the pins on my connector are on both sides. It has to be another mSATA connector with pins only on one side.
Second, I think on the lower side of the board you can see that there are some chips missing (maybe the mSATA controller chips), so I don’t think mSATA will work with only a soldered connector.
I’ve made a picture from the board:
http://abload.de/image.php?img=7537msata5wke6.jpg
Thank you! I’ve searched for hours for this information!
Hello friends. Did anyone really try to change the processor of the 7537 to a better one? I chatted with Dell today, and they told me that it is not possible to change the processor on 7537 to another one.
The CPU can not change.
Hey guys,
For some weird reason, my 7537 came with 6GB of RAM. Do you think I can upgrade it to 8GBx2 = 16GB of rum? Are there any DDR or BUS limitations?
Also, mine came with a 500GB 5400RPM HDD. Do you think installing a 7200RPM will be a problem? What about hybrid SSHD? Will that be a problem?
My CPU: http://s22.postimg.org/oehic7g9d/cpu.png
My RAM: http://s22.postimg.org/tomh3i0i9/ram.png
I ordered mine from Dell with 16GB RAM, so yes, it should be no problem!