User`s guide
Expansion and Option Devices
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Installing and Removing Modules
Your notebook has the added feature of being capable of supporting two hardware
expansion modules: the 12X CD-ROM/FDD Combination module or the secondary
battery module.
Modules are installed in the notebookâs expansion bay. For information about removing
and replacing modules, please refer to the following table.
Module Swapping
The following table details the action needed when swapping modules.
Removing Module... Inserting Module... Action
12X CD-ROM/FDD
Combination
Secondary Battery Place the notebook in
suspend before swapping.
Secondary Battery 12X CD-ROM/FDD
Combination
Power off system. System
needs to reboot to recognize
CD-ROM.
Removing the Modules
For step by step information on removing any one of the modules from the expansion bay,
please refer to the following:
1. Slide the locking button in the direction of the arrow shown in step 1 of figure
6-3. This will unlock the Module Release latch.
2. Slide and hold the Module Release latch in the direction of the arrow shown in
step 2 of figure 6-3.
3. Holding the Module Release latch in this position, slide the module out of the
expansion bay. Please see step 3 in figure 6-3.
4. Install the desired module. Move the locking button back to its original
position.