laptop overheats, tips?

[bessonberry]

the ribbon broke off, so i can't reattach it. the palm rest cable has 5 or so metal stripes, but those have pealed off the cable as well. so basically the whole cable is screwed.

it's a dell inspiron m5030.

 

[setishock]

You really need this:

ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-prod...op/inspiron-15-n5030_service manual_en-us.pdf