EDIT 29/12/24: Fixing the broken images!

I picked up this 2005 gaming Dell from a neighbour, cleaned it up ready to go to a new home. It was REALLY dust, lots of do haire etc. I don't know how it got so bad. It's like it got stored in someone's chicken shed/dog kennel with the fans on full blast for years. Though it might be useful to share some pics in case anybody wants to do the same. Some of the fittings are not mentioned in the manual but for a deep clean need to strip it right down.

Rough Summary of Pics

04 - Shows some of the cable routing - pretty dirty
05 - (routing from PSU)

06 - Some close up of the front panel connector
08 - Side panel fan

09 - Retention clip for cards

10 - Rear fans held in place with rubber grommets
11 - CPU heatsink retention clip (in green)
12 - More on that rear fan
13 - Motherboard layout
14 - Front panel connector
15 - 16 - This is the hinge assemble, same on both sides
17 - Front panel unclips, possibly had to undo the inner circuit board and decorative light fitting

The PSU had loads of fluff and hair in it so to get inot it

18 - Getting into PSU - Have to lift plastic and metal about here to slide off plastic slide bumper
18 - Lift off top

Side Panels
21 - 22 - Getting the plastic panels off side, similar thing where need to put a wedge in to separate plastic from metal in to key places so that the other attachments can unslot
23 - Interesting that thay made the L in Dell a different piece of plastivc

24 - 25 - All clean now

26 - 27 - Some of the cards in it. Now sporting a 120GB Sata SSD and a clean install of XP