Chapter 6: Working With System Board Components; Accessing The System Board - IBM Aptiva Handbook

Working with system board components
To work with the hardware components on the system
board, you must first unplug the system and remove the
tower cover. If you have not removed the cover from
your tower, see "Opening the tower" on page 61.
Before you can begin work with system board
components, you might need to remove adapter cards,
drives, and the riser card. Then once you have
completed your hardware changes and put the cover
back on the tower, you might need to verify or update
Setup Utility configuration.
To access, work with, and update configuration for the
hardware components on your system board, complete
the instructions in the following sections:
•
"Accessing the system board" on page 63
•
"If you need to remove the riser card" on page 64
•
"Identifying the parts of the system board" on
page 65
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"Installing an upgrade processor" on page 68
•
"Installing cache memory modules" on page 69
•
"Installing system memory modules" on page 71
•
"Replacing the system battery" on page 74
•
"Updating the Setup Utility" on page 75

Accessing the system board

To access the section of the system board you need to
work with, you might need to remove adapter cards and
drives. You might also need to remove the riser card.
With the system board exposed, you can work with the
processor, the cache and system memory modules, and
the system battery.
If you need to remove adapter cards and drives, see
"Chapter 7: Working with adapter cards and drives" on
page 77 for these instructions. If you need to remove the
riser card, see "If you need to remove the riser card" on
page 64.
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