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
Steps
1. Lay the computer on the right side.
2. Slide the power-supply unit cage release latches to the unlock position.
3. Lift the power-supply unit cage and rotate the power-supply unit cage away from the chassis.
4. Lift the graphics bridge that connects the graphics cards.
5. Lift to release the graphics-card bracket from the chassis.
6. Press the releasing clip on the power-cable connectors and disconnect the power cables from the graphics card.
7. Push the securing tab on the PCIe slot away from the graphics card, grasp the card by its top corner, and ease it out of the slot
on the PCI-Express x8 slot.
8. Push the securing tab on the PCIe slot away from the graphics card, grasp the card by its top corner, and ease it out of the slot
on the PCI-Express x16/x8 slot.
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