Maintenance and Service Guide
Table Of Contents
- Computer features
- Illustrated parts catalog
- Routine care, SATA drive guidelines, and disassembly preparation
- Removal and replacement procedures
- Computer Setup (F10) Utility
- Troubleshooting without diagnostics
- Safety and comfort
- Before you call for technical support
- Helpful hints
- Solving general problems
- Solving power problems
- Solving hard drive problems
- Solving media card reader problems
- Solving display problems
- Solving audio problems
- Solving printer problems
- Solving keyboard and mouse problems
- Solving hardware installation problems
- Solving network problems
- Solving memory problems
- Solving CD-ROM and DVD problems
- Solving USB flash drive problems
- Solving front panel component problems
- Solving Internet access problems
- Solving software problems
- POST error messages
- Password security and resetting CMOS
- Using HP PC Hardware Diagnostics
- Backing up, restoring, and recovering
- Power cord set requirements
- Statement of memory volatility
- Specifications
- Index
6. To install a new expansion card, hold the card just above the expansion socket on the system board, and
then move the card toward the rear of the chassis (1) so that the bottom of the bracket on the card
slides into the small slot on the chassis. Press the card straight down into the expansion socket on the
system board (2).
NOTE: When installing an expansion card, press rmly on the card so that the whole connector seats
properly in the expansion card socket.
7. Rotate the slot cover retention latch back in place to secure the expansion card.
8. Connect external cables to the installed card, if needed. Connect internal cables to the system board, if
needed.
9. Reassemble the computer.
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