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Agp card brace – Dell Precision 220 User Manual

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6. If it is not already connected, connect the other end of the EIDE cable to the IDE1 connector on the system board.


NOTICE: You must match the colored strip on the EIDE cable with pin 1 on the IDE1 connector to avoid possible damage to
your system.

7.

Replace the computer cover

and

restart the system

.

8. If the drive you just installed is the primary drive, insert a bootable diskette into drive A.

9. Enter System Setup, and update Primary Drive 0 or Primary Drive 1.


After you update the System Setup settings, reboot the system.

10. Partition and logically format your drive before proceeding to the next step.


See the documentation for your operating system for instructions.

11. Test the hard-disk drive by running the Dell Diagnostics (see the online System User's Guide for more information).

12. If the drive you just installed is the primary drive, install your operating system on the hard-disk drive.


Refer to the documentation that came with your operating system.

AGP Card Brace

To access any expansion cards or components on the system board in the mini tower chassis, you must first remove the accelerated graphics port
(AGP) card brace that secures an AGP card in the AGP socket.

1. Remove the computer cover as instructed in "

Computer Cover

."

2. Remove the screw securing the AGP card brace to the chassis (see

Figure 17

).

Figure 17. AGP Card Brace Removal

1 DC power cable

2 Power input connector

3 Interface connector

4 Data cable

CAUTION: Before you remove the computer cover, see "

Precautionary Measures

."