3 Contents
3 Installing Upgrades
Computer Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Opening the Computer Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Closing the Computer Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Expansion Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Installing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Removing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Installing an AGP Graphics Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Removing an AGP Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Expansion-Card Cage (Small Desktop Computer Only) . . . . . . 83
Removing the Expansion-Card Cage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Replacing the Expansion-Card Cage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
TAPI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Installing a TAPI Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Installing a TAPI Sound Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Installing DIMMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Removing DIMMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Removing the Heat Sink or Heat-Sink/Blower Assembly . . . . 93
Removing the Microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Installing the Microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Replacing the Heat Sink or Heat-Sink/Blower Assembly . . . . 100
Front Panel Inserts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Removing Front Panel Inserts—Small Form-Factor and Small Desktop
Computers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Removing Front Panel Inserts—Small Mini-Tower Computer . . 104
Replacing Front Panel Inserts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Internal Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
IDE Drive Addressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Connecting Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109