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OK, folks I'm going in now. I hope I don't screw up!
Good instructions, DocBrown... Thank you for color coding stuff for us remedial students.
OK, folks I'm going in now. I hope I don't screw up!
Good instructions, DocBrown... Thank you for color coding stuff for us remedial students.
Is this it? My fingers are all pinched and swollen from trying to get the side back on. It will only re-attach on the top part, not the bottom.
If this is what is under the HD, we have NO slot here for an add-in video card except for the first white PCI in post #53.
I see a round large watch battery that maintains the CMOS/Bios memory info. The aluminum finned heatsink is probably on top of the CPU (Central Processor Unit). I see Dimm 1 to the right side of the pic which indicates a RAM memory slot/chip.
The square Intel chip could be for the onboard video or for onboard sound.
I am sorry about your fingers. Yes, some computer cases are a pain to open & put back together.
Is this the only pic you took with the harddrive out of the way ? Which side of this pic is the back of the computer ?
That's what's under the box that I surmise is the hard drive. It was in the back lower left part of the computer, and it readily lifted up when I pinched the two blue clips... Do you mean that I can't upgrade this thing?
I finally did get the side back on. Got a free manicure in the process.
Thrash picked the pci express slot out right here, you can just see it, it`s definetly a pci express slot like I said the specs say it is.
It`s black nottaclue, the video card only goes in one way, the card and the slot both have a key/notch you use to line it up, and of course the end with the video ports go to the back of the pc so you can plug the video cable in.
Your card and the slot are both PCI-Express, now let`s get that card in there
You can do it.
You can see here my Quadro 600, your Dell is just silly with where they put the hard drive, my ssd is under the power supply, but you get the jist of it. If you`re gonna use the blue vga port you have to use both low profile brackets, like I already told you.
And you don`t use a hex wrench, you use a 3/16" socket, like I`ve already told you But I suppose you could use a pair of pliers if that`s all you have, just be careful.
And here`s Mike`s picture again showing you how it should look when you`re done, if you`re gonna use your vga cable and the blue vga port. Don`t forget to connect the gray ribbon cable from it to the video card again.
Last edited by AddRAM; 22 Apr 2015 at 17:47.
Well, OK, then. Is this card usable or not? What do I need to take a picture of? I'm sorry to be dense, but I'm not understanding what else I have to photograph, or where it is.
Will you guys forget about the white pci slot, Doc look at the card again, it and the black pci express slot on the board match up perfectly, there is no AGP slot on that board.
Nota, I can see the black pci express slot right there in your picture, that`s where the new card goes.
Last edited by AddRAM; 22 Apr 2015 at 17:47.