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
Steps
1. Align the notch on the solid-state drive with the tab on the solid-state drive slot.
2. Insert the solid-state drive at a 45-degree angle into the system board.
3. Press the other end of the solid-state drive down and replace the screw (M2x2.5) that secure the solid-state drive to the system
board.
Next steps
1. Install the
single-graphics card.
2. Install the left-side cover.
3. Follow the procedure in
After working inside your computer.
4. Verify if the storage device is installed correctly (optional):
● If you are replacing a storage device which does not have the operating system installed, follow the steps in Identifying
storage device in device manager.
● If you are replacing a storage device that had the operating system installed, follow the steps in Identifying your storage
device in system setup (BIOS).
NOTE: To install the operating system on to your storage device, see Reinstall Windows 10 to the Dell factory image
using recovery media in the knowledge base article 000176966.
Front bezel
Removing the front bezel
Prerequisites
1. Follow the procedure in Before working inside your computer.
2. Remove the left-side cover.
3. Remove the top-cover.
4. Remove the right-side cover.
5. Remove the
single-graphics card.
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