Dell GX620 - 3.6GHz Desktop 1GB RAM 80GB Windows XP... User manual

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Dell™ OptiPlex™ GX620 User’s Guide

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Contents
1 Finding Information
2 Before You Begin
Recommended Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Turning Off Your Computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Before Working Inside Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3 Chassis Intrusion Switch
Removing the Chassis Intrusion Switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Mini Tower Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Desktop Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Small Form Factor Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Ultra Small Form Factor Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Replacing the Chassis Intrusion Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Resetting the Chassis Intrusion Detector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4 Mini Tower Computer
About Your Mini Tower Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Front View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Back View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Back-Panel Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Inside Your Computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
System Board Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Jumper Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Mini Tower Computer Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Removing the Computer Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

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I/O Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Removing the I/O Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Replacing the I/O Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
General Installation Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
IDE Drive Addressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Connecting Drive Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Drive Interface Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Power Cable Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Connecting and Disconnecting Drive Cables . . . . . . . . . 47
Hard Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Removing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Installing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Adding a Second Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Drive-Panel Inserts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Floppy Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Removing the Floppy Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Installing the Floppy Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
CD/DVD Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Removing a CD/DVD Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Installing a CD/DVD Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
PCI and PCI Express Cards and Serial Port Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
PCI Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Installing a PCI Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Removing a PCI Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
PCI Express Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Installing a PCI Express Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Removing a PCI Express Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Serial Port Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Installing a Serial Port Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Removing a Serial Port Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Replacing the Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
DC Power Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Removing the Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Installing the Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

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5 Desktop Computer
About Your Desktop Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Front View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Back View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Back-Panel Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Inside Your Computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
System Board Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Jumper Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Desktop Computer Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Removing the Computer Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
I/O Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Removing the I/O Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Replacing the I/O Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
General Installation Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Connecting Drive Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Drive Interface Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Power Cable Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Connecting and Disconnecting Drive Cables . . . . . . . . 117
CD/DVD Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Removing a CD/DVD Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Installing a CD/DVD Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Floppy Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Removing a Floppy Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Installing a Floppy Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Hard Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Removing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Installing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
PCI and PCI Express Cards and Serial Port Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
PCI Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Installing a PCI Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Removing a PCI Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Installing a PCI Card in the Riser-Card Cage . . . . . . . . 131
Removing a PCI Card From the Riser-Card Cage . . . . . . 134

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PCI Express Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Installing a PCI Express x16 Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Removing a PCI Express x16 Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Serial Port Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Installing a Serial Port Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Removing a Serial Port Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Installing a Serial Port Adapter in the Riser-Card Cage . . . 141
Removing a Serial Port Adapter From the Riser-Card
Cage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Replacing the Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
DC Power Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Removing the Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Installing the Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
6 Small Form Factor Computer
About Your Small Form Factor Computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Front View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Back View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Back-Panel Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Inside Your Computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
System Board Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Jumper Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Small Form Factor Computer Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Removing the Computer Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
I/O Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Removing the I/O Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Replacing the I/O Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
General Installation Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Connecting Drive Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Drive Interface Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

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Power Cable Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Connecting and Disconnecting Drive Cables . . . . . . . . 177
Hard Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Removing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Installing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
CD/DVD Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Removing a CD/DVD Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Installing a CD/DVD Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Floppy Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Removing a Floppy Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Installing a Floppy Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
PCI and PCI Express Cards and Serial Port Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
PCI Express Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Installing a PCI Express Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Removing a PCI Express Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Serial Port Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Installing a Serial Port Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Removing a Serial Port Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Removing the Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Installing the Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
7 Ultra Small Form Factor Computer
About Your Ultra Small Form Factor Computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Front View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Side View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Back View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Back-Panel Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Connecting a VGA Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Connecting Two Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Inside Your Computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
System Board Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Jumper Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

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Cable Cover (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Attaching the Cable Cover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Removing the Cable Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Connecting the Power Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Badge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Ultra Small Form Factor Computer Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Removing the Computer Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Module Bay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Installing a Device When Your Computer Is Turned Off . . . . . . . . 221
Installing a Device When Your Computer Is Running
Microsoft® Windows® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Securing a Device in the Module Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
General Installation Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Connecting Drive Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Drive Interface Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Power Cable Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Connecting and Disconnecting Drive Cables . . . . . . . . 228
Hard Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Installing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
8 Advanced Features
LegacySelect Technology Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Manageability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Alert Standard Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Dell OpenManage™ IT Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Dell OpenManage Client Instrumentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Chassis Intrusion Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Option Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

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Padlock Ring and Security Cable Slot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Password Protection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
System Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Option Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Assigning a System Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Typing Your System Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Deleting or Changing an Existing System Password. . . . . 243
Administrator Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Option Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Assigning an Administrator Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Operating Your Computer With an Administrator
Password Enabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Deleting or Changing an Existing Administrator
Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Disabling a Forgotten Password and Setting a New Password . . . . . 245
System Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Entering System Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
System Setup Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
System Setup Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Boot Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Option Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Changing Boot Sequence for the Current Boot . . . . . . . 252
Changing Boot Sequence for Future Boots . . . . . . . . . 253
Booting to a USB Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Memory Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Floppy Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Clearing Forgotten Passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Clearing CMOS Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Hyper-Threading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
9Battery
Replacing the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

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10 Replacing the System Board
Removing the System Board: Mini Tower, Desktop, and Small Form
Factor Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Mini Tower System Board Screws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Desktop System Board Screws. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Small Form Factor System Board Screws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Replacing the System Board: Mini Tower, Desktop, and Small Form
Factor Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
11 Memory
DDR2 Memory Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Addressing Memory With 4-GB Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Removing Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Replacing/Adding Additional Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
12 Replacing the Computer Cover
13 Cleaning Your Computer
Computer, Keyboard, and Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Floppy Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
CDs and DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
14 Reinstalling Drivers and the Operating System
Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
What Is a Driver? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Identifying Drivers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Reinstalling Drivers and Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Using Windows XP Device Driver Rollback . . . . . . . . 278
Using the Optional Drivers and Utilities CD. . . . . . . . . 278