Dell Alienware Aurora R4 User manual

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Alienware Aurora-R4
Owner’s Manual
Regulatory model: D01M
Regulatory type: D01M004
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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.
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2011 - 12 Rev. A00
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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