Ron Hardin wrote:

It turns out that you have to disassemble the
entire laptop to get at the cooling fan.

Step 25 remove cooling fan.

The odds of the machine working after that are
zero.

I backed up the HD just in case, and the HD swap
seems to have worked. The alternate machine came
up thinking it's the old machine, except for one
found new hardware (something about a network
controller) which it didn't find on the driver
disc from Dell anyway. But the machine seems to
work.

Albeit a bit slower because it's a 1.4GHz
processor instead of a 1.8GHz processor.
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