IBM Aptiva Handbook

viii Table of contents
Part 3: Upgrading and replacing hardware ...........................................53
Chapter 5: Before you unplug and open the tower ...............................................55
Planning your hardware changes .............................................................................................................................56
Planning a sequence for hardware changes ......................................................................................................56
Recording your changes ......................................................................................................................................57
Viewing and reconfiguring system resources .........................................................................................................57
Anticipating potential conflicts ............................................................................................................................57
Preventing specific conflicts between Plug and Play and non-Plug and Play hardware ...........................58
Preparing for other possible conflicts ............................................................................................................59
Working with online configuration utilities ........................................................................................................59
Automatic and manual updates to the Setup Utility ....................................................................................59
Starting and using the Windows 95 Device Manager ..................................................................................60
Opening the tower .....................................................................................................................................................61
Inside the tower .........................................................................................................................................................62
Chapter 6: Working with system board components ............................................63
Accessing the system board .....................................................................................................................................63
If you need to remove the riser card ........................................................................................................................64
Identifying the parts of the system board ................................................................................................................65
Installing an upgrade processor ...............................................................................................................................68
Installing cache memory modules ...........................................................................................................................69
Inserting a new module .......................................................................................................................................69
Replacing an existing module .............................................................................................................................70
Installing system memory modules .........................................................................................................................71
Installing a dual inline memory module .............................................................................................................71
Replacing a dual inline memory module ............................................................................................................73
Replacing the system battery ...................................................................................................................................74
Updating the Setup Utility ........................................................................................................................................75
For a cache memory module ...............................................................................................................................75
For system memory modules ..............................................................................................................................75
For the system battery .........................................................................................................................................75

IBM Aptiva Specifications

General

CPU	Intel Pentium
RAM	8 MB to 64 MB
Operating System	Windows 95
Graphics	S3, ATI
Optical Drive	CD-ROM
Ports	Serial, Parallel, PS/2
Expansion Slots	ISA, PCI