Dell 620 manual

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    www .dell.com | support.dell.com Dell Precision™ W orkStation 620 System Memor y Upgrade 0E137a00.book Page 1 Thursday, May 3, 2001 1:36 PM[...]

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    0E137a00.book Page 2 Thursday, May 3, 2001 1:36 PM[...]

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    www .dell.com | support.dell.com Dell Precision™ W orkStation 620 System Memor y Upgrade 0E137a00.book Page 1 Thursday, May 3, 2001 1:36 PM[...]

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    Notes , Notice s , a nd Cautio ns Thro ughout thi s guide, bloc ks of te xt ma y be ac compani ed by an icon a nd printed in bold t ype o r in it ali c t ype . The se bl oc ks are note s, no tices , a nd c auti ons, and they ar e used as follows: NO TE: A NO TE indic ates important inform ation that helps y ou mak e bet ter use of yo ur compute r s[...]

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    support .dell.com System Memo r y Upgr ad e 1 Dell P recision™ W o rkStatio n 620 System Memory Upgrade Thi s docum ent pro vides instr uctions f or upgra ding the Ra mbus in line memo r y mod- ules (RIM Ms) on the Dell P recision W orkStation 620. Dell P recisio n 620 sy stems support d ual, direct, Rambus dy namic rando m-access memor y (RDRAM)[...]

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    2 Sy stem M em or y Up grade d. Se lect the appro priate opera ting sy stem (OS) and lan guage f or the computer to be upd ated. e. Selec t FlashBIO S Updates for th e downl oad category . f. C l i ck Go and f ollo w the ins tr uctions on screen to cre ate a disk et te containi ng the BIOS update fil es. NO TE: F or some D ell sy stems, you are gi [...]

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    support .dell.com System Memo r y Upgr ad e 3 to go ou t (see the i nternal s y stem boa rd lab el that i s at tac hed to the co v er of y our compute r). 3. G round y ourse lf by touc hing an unp ainted metal surf ace o n the c hassis, su c h as the metal aro und the ca rd-slot op enings at the bac k of the com puter , befo re touc hing an ything [...]

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    4 Sy stem M em or y Up grade F igure 1. RIMM Socket Design ation s RIMM1 _A RIMM2_A RIMM3_B RIMM4_B riser board MEC co ver channe l A channe l B 0E137a00.book Page 4 Thursday, May 3, 2001 1:36 PM[...]

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    support .dell.com System Memo r y Upgr ad e 5 RIMM Installation Guidelines Y ou must install RIMMs in pairs . T his means that the RIMM in ea c h soc ket o n one MEC mu st be the sam e memory capaci t y , density , and s peed as the corre spondin g RIMM in th e same soc ket on the other ME C. Also, f or either c hannel A or B of eac h MEC, if one s[...]

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    6 Sy stem M em or y Up grade T o upgr ade me mor y , pe r form th e fol lowing step s. NOTICE : See “Pr otecti ng Agai nst El ectr ostatic Disc harge” in yo ur System Informa ti on Guide . CAUTION : Before you remove your co mputer cover , see “Saf ety Fir st—For Y ou and Y o ur Computer ” in your system User ’s Guide . 1 . If y ou ha v[...]

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    support .dell.com System Memo r y Upgr ad e 7 1 1 . R econnect the computer a nd periph erals to thei r pow er sources, an d tu rn them on. As th e sy stem boots, it detect s the pres ence of the ne w RIMMs and au tomati- cally changes t he syste m conf igur at ion in formati on in syst em setup. NO TES: A dding or re movi ng RIMMs c auses the f ol[...]

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    8 Sy stem M em or y Up grade 1 5. R un the Dell D iagnosti cs to v erify that th e memory modules are operating prope rly . NO TE: F or info rmation on troublesh ooting an d run ning the D ell Diag nostics, see “ T roubl eshoo ting ” in the User ’ s Guid e. Installing a RIMM NOTICE : B ef ore you upgr ade RI MMs , you must upgr ade the BI OS.[...]

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    support .dell.com System Memo r y Upgr ad e 9 Re mo v i n g a R I M M NOTICE : T o avoid da mage to th e m e m or y mo dul e, press th e s ec ur ing clip s with e qual fo rce ap plied at eac h end of th e soc k et. T o remove a RIM M, pr ess th e sec urin g cli ps out ward s imul ta neous ly un til t he RI MM diseng ages from the soc ket ( see Figu[...]

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    www .dell.com | support.dell.com 00E137 A00 Printed in the U.S.A . P/N 0E137 R ev . A00 0E137a00.book Page 2 Thursday, May 3, 2001 1:36 PM[...]