Dell Alienware Aurora R4 Manual de usuario

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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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