Dell Alienware Aurora R4 Owners Manual
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www.dell.com | support.dell.com/manuals Alienware Aurora-R4 Owner’s Manual Regulatory model: D01M Regulatory type: D01M004 book.book Page 1 Wednesday, May 16, 2012 2:37 PM
Notes, Cautions, and Warnings NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your product. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data, and tells you how to avoid the problem. WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. ____________________ Information in this document is subject to change without notice. © 2011 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction of these materials in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of Dell Inc. is strictly forbidden. Trademarks used in this text: Dell™ and the DELL logo are trademarks of Dell Inc. Alienware ® is a registered trademark of Alienware Corporation. Microsoft®, Windows®, and the Windows start button logo are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/ or other countries. Other trademarks and trade names may be used in this document to refer to either the entities claiming the marks and names or their products. Dell Inc. disclaims any proprietary interest in trademarks and trade names other than its own. 2011 - 12 Rev. A00 book.book Page 2 Wednesday, May 16, 2012 2:37 PM
Contents3 Contents 1 Before You Begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Turn Off Your Computer and Connected Devices . . . . 13 Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Recommended Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2 After Working Inside Your Computer. . . . 15 3 Technical Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Front View of Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Back View of Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Inside View of Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 System-Board Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Master I/O Board Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Top Lighting-Board Components . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 4 Left Side-Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Removing the Left Side-Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Replacing the Left Side-Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 book.book Page 3 Wednesday, May 16, 2012 2:37 PM
4Contents 5 Hard Drive(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Removing the Hard Drive(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Replacing the Hard Drive(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 6 Hard-Drive Fan Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Removing the Hard-Drive Fan Assembly . . . . . . . . 33 Replacing the Hard-Drive Fan Assembly . . . . . . . . 34 Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 7 Optical Drive(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Removing the Optical Drive(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Replacing the Optical Drive(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 8 Media-Card Reader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Removing the Media-Card Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Replacing the Media-Card Reader . . . . . . . . . . . 43 book.book Page 4 Wednesday, May 16, 2012 2:37 PM
Contents5 Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 9 PCI Shroud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Opening the PCI Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Closing the PCI Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 10 Drive-Bay Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Removing the Drive-Bay Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Replacing the Drive-Bay Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 11 PCI-Express x1 Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Removing the PCI-Express x1 Card . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Replacing the PCI-Express x1 Card . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 12 PCI-Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 book.book Page 5 Wednesday, May 16, 2012 2:37 PM
6Contents Removing the PCI-Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Replacing the PCI-Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 13 Graphics Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Removing the Graphics Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Replacing the Graphics Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Installing Dual Graphic Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Connect the Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 14 Memory Module(s). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Removing Memory Module(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Replacing Memory Module(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 15 Memory Fan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Removing the Memory Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Replacing the Memory Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 book.book Page 6 Wednesday, May 16, 2012 2:37 PM
Contents7 Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 16 Processor Liquid-Cooling Assembly. . . . 71 Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Removing the Processor Liquid-Cooling Assembly . . . 71 Replacing the Processor Liquid-Cooling Assembly . . 72 Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 17 Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Removing the Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Replacing the Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 18 Power-Supply Unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Removing the Power-Supply Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Replacing the Power-Supply Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 19 Coin-Cell Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 book.book Page 7 Wednesday, May 16, 2012 2:37 PM
8Contents Removing the Coin-Cell Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Replacing the Coin-Cell Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 20 Theater-Lighting Batteries (ALX Chassis Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Removing the Theater-Lighting Batteries . . . . . . . . 93 Replacing the Theater-Lighting Batteries . . . . . . . . 94 Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 21 System-Board Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Removing the System-Board Assembly . . . . . . . . . 95 Replacing the System-Board Assembly . . . . . . . . . 96 Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Entering the Service Tag in BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 22 Master I/O Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Removing the Master I/O Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Replacing the Master I/O Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 book.book Page 8 Wednesday, May 16, 2012 2:37 PM
Contents9 Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 23 Top Lighting-Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Removing the Top Lighting-Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Replacing the Top Lighting-Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 24 Right-Side Top Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Removing the Right-Side Top Panel . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Replacing the Right-Side Top Panel . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 25 Right-Side Middle Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Removing the Right-Side Middle Panel . . . . . . . . . 113 Replacing the Right-Side Middle Panel . . . . . . . . . 114 Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 26 Right Lighting-Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 book.book Page 9 Wednesday, May 16, 2012 2:37 PM
10Contents Removing the Right Lighting-Board. . . . . . . . . . 117 Replacing the Right Lighting-Board . . . . . . . . . . 118 Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 27 Right-Side Bottom Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Removing the Right-Side Bottom Panel . . . . . . . . 121 Replacing the Right-Side Bottom Panel . . . . . . . . 123 Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 28 Top Vent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Removing the Top Vent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Replacing the Top Vent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 29 Front Bezel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Removing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Replacing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 book.book Page 10 Wednesday, May 16, 2012 2:37 PM