Adding Or Replacing An Optical Drive - HP CQ5110F - Presario - 3 GB RAM Upgrade And Service Manual

3 Disconnect the power cable, data cable, and the sound cable, if present, from the
back of the optical drive that you want to remove.
For most drive cables, use a gentle rocking motion to remove the plug.
For Serial ATA drive cables, press the latch (select models only) in the center of
each plug, and then pull the plug out of the drive connector.
Parallel ATA drive
4 Pull the drive out through the front of the chassis.

Adding or replacing an optical drive

1 If you are replacing an existing drive, remove it. See "Removing an optical drive" on
page 8.
2 If you are adding a drive to an empty lower optical drive bay, you must remove the
knockout plate from the bay. To do this, insert a flat-head screwdriver into the knockout
plate slot (A), and then rotate the screwdriver to break the knockout plate out of the
chassis. Discard the knockout plate.
Serial ATA drive
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