Service Manual
Table Of Contents
- Alienware Aurora R12 Service Manual
- Contents
- 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
- Right tron-light board
- 2.5-inch hard drive
- 3.5-inch hard drive
- 2.5-inch hard-drive cage
- 3.5-inch hard-drive cage
- 550 W power-supply unit
- 1000 W Power-supply unit
- Coin-cell battery
- Memory modules
- Single-graphics card
- Solid-state drive
- Front bezel
- Top bezel
- Bottom cover
- Processor fan and heat-sink assembly
- Processor liquid-cooling 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 power-button board.............................................................................................................................84
Installing the power-button board...............................................................................................................................85
System board......................................................................................................................................................................86
Removing the system board......................................................................................................................................... 86
Installing the system board........................................................................................................................................... 88
Entering the Service Tag in the BIOS setup program.................................................................................................90
Chapter 3: Device drivers...................................................................................................................... 92
Operating system............................................................................................................................................................... 92
Downloading the audio driver.......................................................................................................................................... 92
Downloading the graphics driver......................................................................................................................................92
Downloading the USB driver.............................................................................................................................................93
Downloading the WiFi driver............................................................................................................................................93
Downloading the media-card reader driver.....................................................................................................................94
Downloading the chipset driver........................................................................................................................................95
Downloading the network driver......................................................................................................................................95
Chapter 4: System setup........................................................................................................................97
System setup.......................................................................................................................................................................97
Entering BIOS setup program........................................................................................................................................... 97
Navigation keys..................................................................................................................................................................97
Boot Sequence................................................................................................................................................................... 97
System setup options..........................................................................................................................................................98
Clearing CMOS settings.................................................................................................................................................. 100
Clearing forgotten password............................................................................................................................................101
Chapter 5: Troubleshooting................................................................................................................. 102
SupportAssist diagnostics.................................................................................................................................................102
System diagnostic lights................................................................................................................................................... 102
Recovering the operating system.................................................................................................................................... 102
Flashing BIOS (USB key)................................................................................................................................................. 103
Flashing the BIOS.............................................................................................................................................................103
WiFi power cycle..............................................................................................................................................................103
Flea power release........................................................................................................................................................... 104
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