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Replacing the cover and connecting the cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Chapter 5. Installing internal options - microtower model . . . . . . . 41
Removing the cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Locating components
Moving the power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Identifying parts on the system board
Installing memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Installing adapters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Installing internal drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Installing a Rope Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Replacing the cover and connecting the cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Chapter 6. Updating the computer configuration . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Verifying that an option is installed correctly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Configuring PCI adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Configuring startup devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Erasing a lost or forgotten password (clearing CMOS) . . . . . . . . . . 56
Appendix A. Changing the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Appendix B. Updating System Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
System programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Recovering from a POST/BIOS update failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Appendix C. System address maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
System memory map
I/O address map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
DMA I/O address map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Appendix D. Interrupt request and direct memory access channel
Appendix E. Notices and trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Television output notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
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Installing DIMMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Drive specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Installing a drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
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assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
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