Dell XPS 730X User manual

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Dell™ XPS™ 730/730X Service Manual
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Model DCDO
November 2008 Rev. A00

Contents 3
Contents
1 Technical Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Inside View of Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
System Board Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Dell™ XPS™ 730 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Dell XPS 730X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Master Control Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2 Before You Begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Technical Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Recommended Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Turning Off Your Computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Safety Instructions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3 Replacing the Computer Stand . . . . . . . . 15
4 Replacing the Computer Cover . . . . . . . . 17
5 Replacing the Theater Lighting Unit . . . . 19
Replacing the Batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

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Replacing the Theater Lighting Card . . . . . . . . . . 20
6 Replacing Memory Module(s) . . . . . . . . 23
7 Replacing a PCI/PCI Express Card . . . . 27
Removing a PCI Express Graphics Card From a
Multi Graphics Card Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Installing Graphics Cards for Multi Graphics Card . . . 31
Replacing the PCI and PCI Express Cards. . . . . . . . 35
8 Replacing Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Replacing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Replacing the Drive Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Replacing a Floppy Drive (XPS 730 Only) . . . . . . . . 53
Replacing a Media Card Reader. . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
9 Replacing the Heat Sink Assembly . . . . 67
Replacing the Air Cooled Heat Sink Assembly . . . . . 67
Replacing the Liquid Cooling Heat Sink Assembly . . . 69
10 Replacing the Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Removing the Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Installing the Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

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11 Replacing Fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Removing the Card Slot and
Processor Fan Shrouds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Replacing the Card Slot Fan Assembly. . . . . . . 77
Replacing the Processor Fan Assembly . . . . . . 79
Replacing the Hard Drive Fan . . . . . . . . . . . 80
12 Replacing the Master Control Board . . . 83
13 Replacing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . 85
14 Replacing the Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . 89
15 Replacing the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
16 System Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Entering System Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
System Setup Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
System Setup Options—Dell™ XPS™ 730 . . . . . . . 97
System Setup Options—Dell XPS 730X . . . . . . . . . 99
Boot Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Option Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Changing Boot Sequence for the
Current Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Changing Boot Sequence for Future Boots . . . . 104

6Contents
Clearing CMOS Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Technical Overview 7
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Technical Overview
WARNING: Before working inside your computer, read the safety information
that shipped with your computer. For additional safety best practices information,
see the Regulatory Compliance Homepage at
www.dell.com/regulatory_compliance.
Inside View of Your Computer
1 optical drive bays (4) 2 floppy drive/media card reader
3 hard drive bays (4) 4 processor cooling solution: liquid
cooling assembly (shown) or air
cooling assembly
5 card fan
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1 CPU socket 2 system board CPU fan header
3 DIMMs 0 and 1 (DIMM 0-1) 4 DIMMs 2 and 3 (DIMM 2-3)
5 ATX power connector
(ATX_PWR)
6 IDE connector (IDE)
7 SATA ports 3-6 (SATA 3-6) 8 floppy header (FLOPPY)
9 BIOS debug codes (PORT 80
DECODER)
10 SATA ports 1-2 (SATA 1-2)
11 font panel connector (FRONT
PNL)
12 serial port header (SERIAL
PORT)-unused
13 reset CMOS jumper (RESET
CMOS)
14 internal USB header 1 (USB)
15 internal USB header 2 (USB) 16 1394 header
17 battery socket 18 power button (POWER)
19 reset button (RESET) 20 front panel audio header (FP
Audio)
21 PCI slot 1 (PCI SLOT 1) 22 PCIe x16 (Generation 2) slot 2
(PCIe x16_2)
23 PCI slot 2 (PCI SLOT 2) 24 PCIe x16 (Generation 1) slot 3
(PCIe x16_3)
25 PCIe x1 slot (PCIe x1) 26 PCIe x16 (Generation 2) slot 1
(PCIe x16_1)
27 PCIe x1 slot (PCIe x1) 28 internal eSATA header
29 CPU power header

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