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Contents

1 Working on Your Computer................................................................................6

Before Working Inside Your Computer................................................................................................6

Turning Off Your Computer..................................................................................................................7

After Working Inside Your Computer................................................................................................... 8

2 Removing and Installing Components............................................................. 9

Recommended Tools............................................................................................................................9

System Overview...................................................................................................................................9

Removing the Power Supply Unit (PSU)............................................................................................. 12

Installing the Power Supply Unit (PSU)............................................................................................... 13

Removing the Front Cover..................................................................................................................13

Installing the Front Cover....................................................................................................................14

Removing the Hard Drive....................................................................................................................14

Installing the Hard Drive...................................................................................................................... 17

Removing the Left Cover.....................................................................................................................17

Installing the Left Cover...................................................................................................................... 18

Removing the Intrusion Switch...........................................................................................................18

Installing the Intrusion Switch.............................................................................................................19

Removing the PCI Card.......................................................................................................................19

Installing the PCI Card........................................................................................................................ 20

Removing the Slimline Optical Drive................................................................................................. 20

Installing the Slimline Optical Drive....................................................................................................23

Removing the Memory Shroud.......................................................................................................... 23

Installing the Memory Shroud............................................................................................................ 24

Removing the Memory....................................................................................................................... 25

Installing the Memory......................................................................................................................... 25

Removing the Coin-Cell Battery........................................................................................................ 25

Installing the Coin-Cell Battery.......................................................................................................... 26

Removing the Heatsink.......................................................................................................................26

Installing the Heatsink......................................................................................................................... 27

Removing the HeatSink Fan................................................................................................................28

Installing the Heatsink Fan..................................................................................................................28

Removing the PCIe Card Retention................................................................................................... 28

Installing the PCIe card retention.......................................................................................................29

Removing the System-Fan Assembly.................................................................................................29

Installing the System-Fan Assembly...................................................................................................34

Removing the I/O Panel and the USB 3.0 Ports................................................................................ 34

Installing the I/O Panel and the USB 3.0 Ports.................................................................................. 36

Chipset	Intel C612
Processor Options	Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 product family with up to 22 cores per processor
Memory	Up to 1TB DDR4 ECC/non-ECC (16 DIMM slots)
Storage Options	SATA, SAS, SSD
Graphics Options	NVIDIA Quadro, AMD FirePro
Power Supply	685W, 1300W
Operating System	Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu
Expansion Slots	7 PCIe slots (x16, x8, x4)
Ports	USB 3.0, USB 2.0
Networking	Integrated Intel I217 Gigabit Ethernet controller

Dell Precision Tower 7910 User Manual

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