Dell Alienware 14 User manual

Alienware 14
Owner’s Manual
Computer model: Alienware 14
Regulatory model: P39G
Regulatory type: P39G001
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Notes, Cautions, and Warnings
NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make
better use of your computer.
CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates potential damage to
hardware or loss of data if instructions are not followed.
WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage,
personal injury, or death.
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and the AlienHead logo are trademarks or registered trademarks 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;
Bluetooth®is a registered trademark owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and is used by
Dell under license.
2013 - 06 Rev. A00
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Contents | 3
Contents
1 Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Turn Off Your Computer and Connected Devices. . . . 9
Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Recommended Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2 After Working Inside Your Computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3 Removing the Base Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4ReplacingtheBaseCover. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5 Removing the Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6 Replacing the Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
7 Removing the Memory Module(s). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
8 Replacing the Memory Module(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
9 Removing the Secondary Hard-Drive (optional) . . . . 18
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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10 Replacing the Secondary Hard-Drive (optional) . . . . 22
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
11 Removing the Primary Hard-Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
12 Replacing the Primary Hard-Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
13 Removing the Wireless Mini-Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
14 Replacing the Wireless Mini-Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
15 Removing the mSATA card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
16 Replacing the mSATA card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
17 Removing the Palm Rest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
18 Replacing the Palm Rest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
19 Removing the Power-Button Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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20 Replacing the Power-Button Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
21 Removing the Status-Light Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
22 Replacing the Status-Light Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
23 Removing the Speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
24 Replacing the Speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
25 Removing the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
26 Replacing the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
27 Removing the Coin-Cell Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
28 Replacing the Coin-Cell Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
29 Removing the Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
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30 Replacing the Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
31 Removing the Subwoofer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
32 Replacing the Subwoofer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
33 Removing the Tron Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
34 Replacing the Tron Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
35 Removing the Power-Adapter Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
36 Replacing the Power-Adapter Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
37 Removing the Display Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
38 Replacing the Display Assembly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
39 Removing the Display Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
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40 Replacing the Display Bezel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
41 Removing the Display Hinges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
42 Replacing the Display Hinges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
43 Removing the Display Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
44 Replacing the Display Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
45 Removing the Camera Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
46 Replacing the Camera Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
47 Removing the Logo Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
48 Replacing the Logo Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
49 Removing the Display Light Boards . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
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50 Replacing the Display Light Boards. . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
51 Removing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
52 Replacing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Entering the Service Tag in the BIOS . . . . . . . . . . 91
53 Removing the Processor Heat-Sink. . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
54 Replacing the Processor Heat-Sink. . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
55 Removing the Processor Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
56 Replacing the Processor Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
57 System Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Entering System Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Boot Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
58 Flashing the BIOS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
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Before You Begin
Turn Off Your Computer and Connected
Devices
CAUTION: To avoid losing data, save and close all open files and exit
all open programs before you turn off your computer.
1Save and close all open files and exit all open programs.
2Follow the instructions to shut down your computer based on the operating system
installed on your computer.
•Windows 8:
Move your mouse pointer to the upper-right or lower-right corner of the screen
to open the Charms sidebar, and then click Settings→Power→
Shutdown.
•Windows 7:
Click Start and click Shut down.
Microsoft Windows shuts down and then the computer turns off.
NOTE: If you are using a different operating system, see the
documentation of your operating system for shut-down instructions.
3Disconnect your computer and all attached devices from their electrical outlets.
4Disconnect all telephone cables, network cables, and attached devices from
your computer.
Safety Instructions
Use the following safety guidelines to protect your computer from potential damage and
ensure your personal safety.
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 dell.com/regulatory_compliance.
WARNING: Disconnect all power sources before opening the
computer cover or panels. After you finish working inside the
computer, replace all covers, panels, and screws before connecting to
the power source.
CAUTION: To avoid damaging the computer, ensure that the work
surface is flat and clean.
CAUTION: To avoid damaging the components and cards, handle
them by their edges and avoid touching pins and contacts.
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CAUTION: Only a certified service technician is authorized to remove
the computer cover and access any of the components inside the
computer. See the safety instructions for complete information
about safety precautions, working inside your computer, and
protecting against electrostatic discharge.
CAUTION: Before touching anything inside your computer, ground
yourself by touching an unpainted metal surface, such as the metal
at the back of the computer. While you work, periodically touch an
unpainted metal surface to dissipate static electricity, which could
harm internal components.
CAUTION: When you disconnect a cable, pull on its connector or on
its pull-tab, not on the cable itself. Some cables have connectors with
locking tabs or thumb-screws that you must disengage before
disconnecting the cable. When disconnecting cables, keep them
evenly aligned to avoid bending any connector pins. When
connecting cables, ensure that the connectors and ports are
correctly oriented and aligned.
CAUTION: To disconnect a network cable, first unplug the cable from
your computer and then unplug the cable from the network device.
CAUTION: Press and eject any installed card from the media-card
reader.
Recommended Tools
The procedures in this document may require the following tools:
•Phillips screwdriver
•Torx T8 screwdriver
•Plastic scribe
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