Service Manual
Table Of Contents
- Alienware Aurora R11 Service Manual
- Working inside your computer
- Removing and installing components
- Inside view of your computer
- System-board components
- Recommended tools
- Screw list
- Left-side cover
- Top cover
- Right-side cover
- 2.5-inch hard drive
- 3.5-inch hard drive
- 2.5-inch hard-drive cage
- 3.5-inch hard-drive cage
- 460 W power-supply unit
- 850 W Power-supply unit
- Right tron-light board
- Processor liquid-cooling assembly
- Coin-cell battery
- Memory modules
- Solid-state drive
- Single-graphics card
- Dual-graphics card
- Front bezel
- Top bezel
- Bottom cover
- Processor fan and heat-sink assembly
- Processor
- Wireless card
- Antennas
- Front I/O-panel
- Front-chassis fan
- Top-chassis fan
- Front AlienFX LED boards
- Power-button board
- System board
- Device drivers
- System setup
- Troubleshooting
Removing the front AlienFX LED board......................................................................................................................87
Installing the front AlienFX LED board........................................................................................................................87
Power-button board.......................................................................................................................................................... 88
Removing the power-button board.............................................................................................................................88
Installing the power-button board...............................................................................................................................89
System board......................................................................................................................................................................90
Removing the system board.........................................................................................................................................90
Installing the system board........................................................................................................................................... 92
Entering the Service Tag in the BIOS setup program.................................................................................................94
Chapter 3: Device drivers...................................................................................................................... 96
Operating system............................................................................................................................................................... 96
Downloading the audio driver.......................................................................................................................................... 96
Downloading the graphics driver......................................................................................................................................96
Downloading the USB driver.............................................................................................................................................97
Downloading the WiFi driver............................................................................................................................................97
Downloading the media-card reader driver.....................................................................................................................98
Downloading the chipset driver........................................................................................................................................99
Downloading the network driver......................................................................................................................................99
Chapter 4: System setup...................................................................................................................... 101
System setup......................................................................................................................................................................101
Entering BIOS setup program..........................................................................................................................................101
Navigation keys.................................................................................................................................................................101
Boot Sequence..................................................................................................................................................................101
System setup options........................................................................................................................................................102
Clearing CMOS settings.................................................................................................................................................. 104
Clearing forgotten password...........................................................................................................................................105
Chapter 5: Troubleshooting.................................................................................................................106
SupportAssist diagnostics................................................................................................................................................ 106
System diagnostic lights...................................................................................................................................................106
Recovering the operating system.................................................................................................................................... 106
Flashing BIOS (USB key)................................................................................................................................................. 107
Flashing the BIOS............................................................................................................................................................. 107
WiFi power cycle..............................................................................................................................................................107
Flea power release............................................................................................................................................................108
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