Alienware AURORA R11 Service Manual page 5

Removing the front AlienFX LED board..................................................................................................................... 86
Installing the front AlienFX LED board....................................................................................................................... 86
Power-button board.......................................................................................................................................................... 87
Removing the power-button board............................................................................................................................. 87
Installing the power-button board...............................................................................................................................88
System board...................................................................................................................................................................... 89
Removing the system board......................................................................................................................................... 89
Installing the system board............................................................................................................................................91
Entering the Service Tag in the BIOS setup program................................................................................................. 93
3 Device drivers......................................................................................................................................95
Operating system............................................................................................................................................................... 95
Downloading the audio driver.......................................................................................................................................... 95
Downloading the graphics driver......................................................................................................................................95
Downloading the USB driver............................................................................................................................................ 96
Downloading the WiFi driver............................................................................................................................................96
Downloading the media-card reader driver..................................................................................................................... 97
Downloading the chipset driver........................................................................................................................................ 97
Downloading the network driver...................................................................................................................................... 98
4 System setup....................................................................................................................................... 99
System setup.......................................................................................................................................................................99
Entering BIOS setup program........................................................................................................................................... 99
Navigation keys..................................................................................................................................................................99
Boot Sequence................................................................................................................................................................... 99
System setup options....................................................................................................................................................... 100
Clearing CMOS settings.................................................................................................................................................. 102
Clearing forgotten password........................................................................................................................................... 103
5 Troubleshooting.................................................................................................................................104
System diagnostic lights................................................................................................................................................... 104
Recovering the operating system.................................................................................................................................... 104
Flashing BIOS (USB key)................................................................................................................................................. 104
Flashing the BIOS.............................................................................................................................................................105
WiFi power cycle..............................................................................................................................................................105
Flea power release........................................................................................................................................................... 105
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