Preventing electrostatic damage to equipment .................................................................. 25
Personal grounding methods and equipment .................................................................... 25
Grounding the work area ................................................................................................... 25
Recommended materials and equipment .......................................................................... 26
Operating guidelines .......................................................................................................................... 26
Routine care ....................................................................................................................................... 27
General cleaning safety precautions ................................................................................. 27
Cleaning the Computer Case ............................................................................................ 27
Cleaning the keyboard ....................................................................................................... 27
Cleaning the monitor .......................................................................................................... 28
Cleaning the mouse ........................................................................................................... 28
Service considerations ....................................................................................................................... 28
Power supply fan ............................................................................................................... 28
Tools and software Requirements ..................................................................................... 28
Screws ............................................................................................................................... 29
Cables and connectors ...................................................................................................... 29
Hard Drives ........................................................................................................................ 29
Lithium coin cell battery ..................................................................................................... 29
SATA hard drives ............................................................................................................................... 30
SATA hard drive cables ...................................................................................................................... 30
SATA data cable ................................................................................................................ 30
SMART ATA drives ............................................................................................................................ 30
Cable management ............................................................................................................................ 31
5 Removal and replacement procedures – Microtower (MT) chassis ................................................................ 32
Preparation for disassembly ............................................................................................................... 32
Access panel ...................................................................................................................................... 33
Front bezel ......................................................................................................................................... 34
Optical drive bezel blank .................................................................................................................... 35
Memory .............................................................................................................................................. 36
DIMMs ............................................................................................................................... 36
DDR3-SDRAM DIMMs ...................................................................................................... 36
Populating DIMM sockets .................................................................................................. 36
Installing DIMMs ................................................................................................................ 37
Expansion cards ................................................................................................................................. 39
Drives ................................................................................................................................................. 43
Drive positions ...............................................
.................................................................... 45
Removing a slim optical drive ............................................................................................ 45
Installing a slim optical drive .............................................................................................. 46
Removing a hard drive ....................................................................................................... 47
Installing a hard drive ......................................................................................................... 48
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