Replacing The Peripheral Board; Removing The Peripheral Board; Installing The Peripheral Board; Figure 70. Removing The Peripheral Board - Dell 3250 Product Manual

Replacing the Peripheral Board

The peripheral board resides next to the SCSI backplane board. See Figure 51 for help in locating
components.

Removing the Peripheral Board

1. Remove the peripheral bay from the chassis. For instructions, see Removing the Peripheral Bay.
2. Disconnect the flex cables and power cables from the peripheral board.
3. Loosen the two retaining screws on the peripheral board
4. Slide the board rearward to remove it. See Figure 70.
5. Place the peripheral board on a clean ESD-protected work surface or in antistatic packaging.
6. If you are replacing a DVD-ROM or CD-ROM drive, continue with Servicing the DVD-
ROM/CD-ROM Drive before replacing the peripheral board.

Installing the Peripheral Board

1. Carefully align the peripheral board in the two nylon slots from the rear of the peripheral bay.
2. Slide the peripheral board into the bay and align the two captive screws.
3. Secure the peripheral board in the peripheral bay by tightening the captive screws.
4. Reconnect the peripheral interface ribbon cable from the SCSI backplane board to J1D1 on the
peripheral board, The DC Y-cable from the SCSI backplane board to J2B1 on the peripheral
board.
5. Connect the CD/DVD drive DC power cable.
6. Connect the IDE ribbon cable at position J4D1 to the DVD/CD-ROM IDE interface.
7. Follow the instructions under Installing the Top Cover.

Figure 70. Removing the Peripheral Board

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