Contents 11
14 Adding and Replacing Parts . . . . . . . . . 163
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Recommended Tools
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Turning Off Your Computer
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Before Working Inside Your Computer
. . . . . . . 164
Hard Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Removing the Hard Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Replacing the Hard Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Returning a Hard Drive to Dell
. . . . . . . . . . . 168
Optical Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Removing the Optical Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Replacing the Optical Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Central Control Cover
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Removing the Central Control Cover
. . . . . . . . 171
Replacing the Central Control Cover
. . . . . . . . 171
Keyboard
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Removing the Keyboard
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Replacing the Keyboard
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Memory
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Removing the Memory Module
. . . . . . . . . . 174
Replacing the Memory Module
. . . . . . . . . . 176
Modem
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Subscriber Identity Module
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Wireless Mini-Cards
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Removing a WLAN Card
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Replacing a WLAN Card
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
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