Removing And Replacing The Front Bezel - Dell OptiPlex GX1 Installation Manual

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Installing Drives: Dell™ OptiPlex™ GX1 and GX1p Mini Tower Managed PC Systems
Overview

Removing and Replacing the Front Bezel

Removing and Replacing Front-Panel Inserts
Connecting Drives
Overview
Your Dell computer has six drive bays for installing the following types of drives (see
The externally accessible drive bays at the front of the computer consist of one 3.5-inch drive bay (dedicated to a 3.5-inch diskette drive) and
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three 5.25-inch bays that can hold up to three half-height, 5.25-inch devices—typically tape drives or CD-ROM drives. Alternately, 3.5-inch
devices can be installed in the 5.25-inch bays using adapters available from Dell.
The two hard-disk drive bays can each hold a 3.5-inch enhanced integrated drive electronics (EIDE) or small computer system interface
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(SCSI) hard-disk drive. Together, the bays can hold one 1-inch-high (or smaller) drive and one 1.6-inch-high (or smaller) drive.
The next three sections contain information that you will need in several installation procedures. The remaining sections cover each type of drive
installation.
NOTE: In all of the following procedures, left and right refer to your left and right as you face the front of the computer.
Figure 1. Drive Locations
Removing and Replacing the Front Bezel
The bezel is secured to the front of the chassis by two tabs and two hooks. The tab release for the bezel is at the top of the computer chassis and
can be accessed only with the computer cover removed (see
pressing the tab release marked with the icon (see Figure 2).
Figure 2. Removing the Front Bezel
Installing a Drive in a 5.25-Inch Drive Bay
Installing an EIDE Hard-Disk Drive
Installing SCSI Devices
Figure 1):
"Removing the Computer Cover"). With the cover removed, release the bezel by