Personal grounding methods and equipment ..................................................................................

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Grounding the work area ..................................................................................................................

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Recommended materials and equipment ........................................................................................

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Operating guidelines ...........................................................................................................................................

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Routine care .........................................................................................................................................................

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General cleaning safety precautions ................................................................................................

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Cleaning the Computer Case .............................................................................................................

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Cleaning the keyboard ......................................................................................................................

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Cleaning the monitor .........................................................................................................................

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Cleaning the mouse ...........................................................................................................................

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Service considerations ........................................................................................................................................

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Power supply fan ...............................................................................................................................

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Tools and software Requirements ...................................................................................................

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Screws ...............................................................................................................................................

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Cables and connectors ......................................................................................................................

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Hard Drives ........................................................................................................................................

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Lithium coin cell battery ...................................................................................................................

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SATA hard drives ..................................................................................................................................................

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SATA hard drive cables ........................................................................................................................................

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SATA data cable .................................................................................................................................

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SMART ATA drives ................................................................................................................................................

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Cable management ..............................................................................................................................................

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4 Removal and replacement procedures – Microtower (MT) chassis ....................................................................

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Preparation for disassembly ...............................................................................................................................

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Access panel ........................................................................................................................................................

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Front bezel ...........................................................................................................................................................

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Optical drive bezel blank .....................................................................................................................................

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Battery .................................................................................................................................................................

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Memory ................................................................................................................................................................

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DIMMs ................................................................................................................................................

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DDR3-SDRAM DIMMs .........................................................................................................................

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Populating DIMM sockets ..................................................................................................................

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Installing DIMMs ................................................................................................................................

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Expansion cards ...................................................................................................................................................

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Drives ...................................................................................................................................................................

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Drive positions ...................................................................................................................................

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Removing a slim optical drive ...........................................................................................................

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Installing a slim optical drive ............................................................................................................

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Removing a hard drive ......................................................................................................................

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Installing a hard drive .......................................................................................................................

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