Latitude D520 Dell makes a simple job a royal pain!

[angry_geek]

A client wanted me to do a nuke and pave on an employee's laptop. She had quit, and the boss wanted it to be ready to go fresh for someone else. So I'm sitting here on a cloudy Sunday Afternoon working on it while watching movies. While working, I noticed it only had 1 gb of ram. Me being a professional geek, I have piles of ram, so I decided to upgrade her to 2 gb free of charge. Open the memory panel on the bottom of machine and . . .WTF! Only one slot with a 512 mb stick. I cussed for a while before deciding what to do next. I figured the other stick was either integrated on the mobo or hiding under the kb. Before dismantling the machine, I checked on Dell's website. Dell service manual confirmed it was hiding.

So, for anyone looking at D520 Latitude, the second memory slot is inder the keyboard. Open the lcd all the way. Pop the hinge cover off (plastic panel above the kb) by sliding a small flat screwdriver into the small slot on the right side. Gently pop it off. Remove 2 screws at top of kb. Now you have access to second slot. This will probably work on other Latitudes. This machine is only a year old, so we will probably see this quite a bit.

Thank you so much to the idiot designer at Dell who decided this was a good idea on a professional laptop.

 

[eggy53]

LOL You are still giving it for free?

 

[angry_geek]

LOL You are still giving it for free?

Yeah, I'll just call it a learning experience. Plus, this client pays me a LOT of money every year. So a few extra minutes and $20 worth of ram is no big deal.

 

[eggy53]

May I ask how much a year? Sorry for this question, its just curiosity

 

[angry_geek]

May I ask how much a year? Sorry for this question, its just curiosity

Average of $15,000.00. She was one of my first clients when I started out, so I take pretty good care of her.

 

[eggy53]

Average of $15,000.00. She was one of my first clients when I started out, so I take pretty good care of her.

I would too, lol My most profiting client generates me $800 only in maintenance services.

 

[geekhelp4u]

All of the business dell latitude machines have the second slot under the keyboard with exception to the new E series machines that have an entire access panel on the back.

 

[atlanticjim]

All of the business dell latitude machines have the second slot under the keyboard with exception to the new E series machines that have an entire access panel on the back.

Keeps the idiot employees or others from stealing the RAM chips. . pretty smart on Dell's part if you ask me.

 

[Blues]

All we use at my office is Dell Latitude D6x0 and D8x0 and I think all of them have both on the bottom side I will check the D630 next to me later and let you know if I am wrong.