wednesday, 15 april 2026
... motherboard back into my Dell Latitudue 7290, the i7-8650U was having some ...

sunday, 7 december 2025
7290 Replaced battery, we'll see how long this one lasts. The battery did not come with the cable that connects the battery to the motherboard, luckily I had removed it from the old battery. F12 to access the bios on power on. Porting OpenBSD where to start with a new arch

friday, 5 december 2025
... , when removed today. Battery 7290 Realtalk ...

friday, 3 october 2025
... BIOS upgrade went smoothly and the 7290 is now running "1.42.0" from ...

wednesday, 4 june 2025
Dell Latitude 7290 Motherboard upgrade to i7-8650U from i5. The new dmesg shows the update. The motherboard replacement was simple and straight forward, the reason it was not done sooner was I need to order new thermal paste when swapping the motherboards. Ordered NT-H2 Thermal Paste. Might put the i5 motherboard in a 7280 model…

wednesday, 28 may 2025
Dell 7290 i7 Bought a Dell 7290 i7 laptop off ebay - it claimed to be working, minus hard disk, the keyboard appeared to have random key presses, luckily the i7 motherboard seems to be working fine so I need new thermal paste and then replace the i5 motherboard.

friday, 15 november 2024
Dell 7290 Tech Specs

tuesday, 27 august 2024
... boot According to Wikipedia the 7290 is a 2018 model (went out of support ...