
10 Contents
12 Adding and Replacing Parts . . . . . . . . . 129
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Recommended Tools
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Turning Off Your Computer
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Before Working Inside Your Computer
. . . . . . . 130
Hard Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Removing the Hard Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Replacing the Hard Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Returning a Hard Drive to Dell
. . . . . . . . . . . 134
Optical Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Removing the Optical Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Replacing the Optical Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Hinge Cover
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Removing the Hinge Cover
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Replacing the Hinge Cover
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Keyboard
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Removing the Keyboard
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Replacing the Keyboard
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Memory
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Removing the Memory Module
. . . . . . . . . . 139
Replacing the Memory Module
. . . . . . . . . . 141
Modem
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Subscriber Identity Module
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Wireless Mini Cards
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Removing a WLAN Card
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Replacing a WLAN Card
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Internal Card with Bluetooth
®
Wireless
Technology
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148