Service Manual
Table Of Contents
- Alienware Aurora R9 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
- Power-button board
- System board
- Device drivers
- System setup
- Troubleshooting
Removing the power-button board.......................................................................................................................85
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..........................................................................................91
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.................................................................................................................................94
Downloading the network driver................................................................................................................................95
4 System setup.................................................................................................................................... 96
System setup............................................................................................................................................................ 96
Entering BIOS setup program...................................................................................................................................96
Navigation keys.........................................................................................................................................................96
Boot Sequence..........................................................................................................................................................96
System setup options................................................................................................................................................97
Clearing CMOS settings............................................................................................................................................99
Clearing forgotten password................................................................................................................................... 100
5 Troubleshooting............................................................................................................................. 102
Enhanced Pre-Boot System Assessment (ePSA) diagnostics................................................................................102
Running the ePSA diagnostics...........................................................................................................................102
System diagnostic lights..........................................................................................................................................102
Recovering the operating system............................................................................................................................103
Flashing BIOS (USB key)........................................................................................................................................103
Flashing the BIOS...................................................................................................................................................103
WiFi power cycle.....................................................................................................................................................104
Flea power release..................................................................................................................................................104
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