Dell XPS 8500 User manual

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Dell™ XPS™ 8500

Owner’s Manual

Regulatory model: D03M

Regulatory type: D03M005

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Notes, Cautions, and Warnings

NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better

use of your product.

CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or

loss of data, and tells you how to avoid the problem.

WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage,

personal injury, or death.

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Information in this document is subject to change without notice.

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registered trademark owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and is used by Dell under license.

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2012 - 04 Rev. A00

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Contents

1 Before You Begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Turn Off Your Computer and Connected Devices . . . . 13

Safety Instructions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Recommended Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2 After Working Inside Your Computer. . . . 15

3 Technical Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Front View of Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Back View of Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Inside View of Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

System-Board Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

4 Computer Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Removing the Computer Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Replacing the Computer Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

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5 Memory Module(s). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Removing Memory Module(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Replacing Memory Module(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

6 Front Bezel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Removing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Replacing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

7 Graphics-Card Bracket (optional) . . . . . 35

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Removing the Graphics-Card Bracket. . . . . . . . . . 35

Replacing the Graphics-Card Bracket. . . . . . . . . . 36

Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

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8 Graphics Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Removing the Graphics Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Replacing the Graphics Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

9 PCI-Express x1 Card(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Removing the PCI-Express x1 Card(s) . . . . . . . . . . 44

Replacing the PCI-Express x1 Card(s). . . . . . . . . . 46

Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

10 Wireless Mini-Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Removing the Mini-Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Replacing the Mini-Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

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11 Mini-Card Antennas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Removing the Mini-Card Antennas . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Replacing the Mini-Card Antennas . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

12 mSATA Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Removing the mSATA Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Replacing the mSATA Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

13 Hard Drive(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Removing the Primary Hard-Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Replacing the Primary Hard-Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Removing the Hard Drive Cage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Replacing the Hard Drive Cage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

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Removing the Secondary Hard-Drive . . . . . . . . . . 65

Replacing the Secondary Hard-Drive . . . . . . . . . . 66

Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

14 Optical Drive(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Removing the Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Replacing the Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Secondary Optical-Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Installing a Secondary Optical-Drive . . . . . . . . . . 70

Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

15 Media-Card Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Removing the Media-Card Reader . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Replacing the Media-Card Reader . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

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16 Top Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Removing the Top Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Replacing the Top Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

17 Top I/O Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Removing the Top I/O Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Replacing the Top I/O Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

18 Front USB Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Removing the Front USB Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Replacing the Front USB Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

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19 Power Button Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Removing the Power Button Module . . . . . . . . . . 90

Replacing the Power Button Module . . . . . . . . . . 91

Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

20 Chassis Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Removing the Chassis Fan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Replacing the Chassis Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

21 Processor Fan and Heat-Sink Assembly . 97

Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Removing the Processor Fan and Heat-Sink Assembly. 97

Replacing the Processor Fan and Heat-Sink Assembly 99

Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

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22 Processor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Removing the Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Replacing the Processor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

23 Coin-Cell Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Removing the Coin-Cell Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Replacing the Coin-Cell Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

24 Power-Supply Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Removing the Power-Supply Unit . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Replacing the Power-Supply Unit . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Postrequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

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