Laptop User Manual

10 Contents
12 Adding and Replacing Parts . . . . . . . . . 137
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Recommended Tools
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Turning Off Your Computer
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Before Working Inside Your Computer
. . . . . . . 138
Hard Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Removing the Hard Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Replacing the Hard Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Returning a Hard Drive to Dell
. . . . . . . . . . . 142
Optical Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Removing the Optical Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Replacing the Optical Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Hinge Cover
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Removing the Hinge Cover
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Replacing the Hinge Cover
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Keyboard
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Removing the Keyboard
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Replacing the Keyboard
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Memory
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Removing the DIMM A Memory Module
. . . . . . 148
Replacing the DIMM A Memory Module
. . . . . 149
Removing the DIMM B Memory Module
. . . . . . 150
Replacing the DIMM B Memory Module
. . . . . 152
Subscriber Identity Module
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Wireless Mini Cards
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Removing a WLAN Card
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Replacing a WLAN Card
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157