Users Guide

ManualsBrandsDell ManualsKitchen Entertainment CenterOptiPlex GX240

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