HP BRIO 82XX, BRIO 83XX User Manual

Upgrade Guide

Online Guide Date: Autumn1997

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Associated Documentation

The following HP publications will also be useful to you.

• Advanced Setup Guide - online book giving technical specifications, and setup and configuration information for your

computer.

• Getting Support - paper book explaining how to obtain HP support. The book also contains safety and warranty

information.

• Questions & Answers - paper document that answers the most commonly asked questions.

• Learning About Your HP PC - online help giving information about your computer.

For a list of available documentation, double-click on the icon on the desktop or press the information key on your (enhanced) keyboard.

If your computer is up and running but you are experiencing problems, refer to the online support center (see page 5

HP Centers

Double-click on the icon on the desktop, or click on the start menu and then HP Centers, or press the key on your keyboard, to open the HP Centers window.

Once you have opened the HP Centers window, you can access and use the following centers:

• Communications - communicate easily with the outside world

enable/disable fax reception, set up your answering machine, dial a phone number, and listen to your voice messages.

. You can set up your fax program, send a fax,

• Data Protection - make sure your data is secure and protected. You can protect your PC from viruses, back up your

data, maintain your hard disk (for example, scan it for errors), and restrict access to your PC.

• Network - share and access local network resources

modems, CD-ROM drives, Internet connections, and so on.

. You can easily share and access printers, folders and files, fax

• Welcome - discover what you can do with your PC and how to personalize it. You can register your PC, check your PC

settings, follow a PC tour, and see what documentation is available to you.

• Support - solve computer problems with the support tools and services provided by HP. You can diagnose hardware

problems, recover software applications that were preinstalled on your PC, access HP online support services, and run Windows 95 troubleshooting tools.

1. Communications features are only available on communications models.

2. To use a local area network (LAN), you need to install a network card and software.

HP Centers

Contents

1 Why Upgrade?

How To Use This Online Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Notice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Associated Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

HP Centers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Upgrading Your HP PC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Upgrading the Main Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Upgrading the Video Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Installing Expansion Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Installing Storage Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Upgrading the Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Upgrading the BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

2 Installing Accessories in Your Computer

Supported HP Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

System Board Jumpers and Switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Backing Up Your Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Removing and Replacing the Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Installing Main Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Installing Video Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Installing Video Memory on the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Installing Expansion Cards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Installing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Installing a Network Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Removing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Installing Storage Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Installing an Additional Hard Disk Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Installing a Floppy Disk Drive, CD-ROM Drive, Zip Drive, or Tape Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Installing a Processor Upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Changing the Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Why Upgrade?

1 Why Upgrade?

Upgrading Your HP PC

Your computer uses some of the latest hardware technology to achieve outstanding performance. If required, performance can be even further enhanced thanks to this computer’s upgradeable design.

Main Memory Main memory is the workspace of the computer. It is in this workspace that the processor stores all work in progress. You

can increase the size of the computer’s workspace by adding more main memory.

To find out more about upgrading the main memory, refer to “Upgrading the Main Memory” on page 12.

Video Memory Video memory stores everything that you see on your computer screen. In order to provide a solid image on the screen,

the screen image has to be continually refreshed. The computer’s graphics system uses the image stored in video memory to refresh the screen.

Increasing the amount of video memory enables higher screen resolutions, higher refresh rates and many more colors for existing resolutions, enhancing and accelerating graphics-intensive applications.

To find out more about upgrading the video memory, refer to “Upgrading the Video Memory” on page 13

Expansion Cards An expansion card, or accessory board, is a component that usually adds some specialized function to a computer. For

example, installing a network card can, in conjunction with the necessary software and cables, connect a computer to a network.

To find out more about installing expansion cards, refer to “Installing Expansion Cards” on page 14

Storage Devices A storage device is a device that stores software (for example, applications, programs, the operating system, data, and so

on). Hard disk drives, CD-ROM drives, tape drives, Zip drives, and floppy disk drives are all examples of storage devices.

To find out more about installing storage devices, refer to “Installing Storage Devices” on page 15.

1 Why Upgrade?

Upgrading Your HP PC

Processor The processor is the primary computational chip inside the computer. It can be thought of as the computer’s brain. It may

be upgraded to provide more power for processor-intensive applications.

To find out more about installing a processor upgrade, refer to “Upgrading the Processor” on page 16.

Upgrading the Main Memory

1 Why Upgrade?

Upgrading the Main Memory

How Much Main Memory Does My Computer Have?

Why Add More Main Memory?

How Much Main Memory Can I Add?

Will Adding Memory Always Improve

The amount of main memory that your computer has depends on the particular model that you have. To see how much main memory is installed, restart your computer and press when Press <F2> to enter SETUP is displayed at the bottom of the screen. This displays a series of screens that show the computer’s configuration. The amount of main memory installed is shown on the Main screen in the Memory fields.

By adding more memory you can significantly improve the computer’s performance. If your computer does not have enough memory, it uses hard disk space as virtual memory which allows large applications to execute even though the physical memory is not sufficient. Virtual memory, however, is approximately 200 times slower than main memory.

The amount of main memory your computer requires depends on the operating system and the applications you use. You will need more memory if you use memory-hungry applications (for example, image processing and desktop publishing applications) or if you run several applications at the same time.

Your computer is capable of supporting up to 128 MB of main memory, using four memory module sockets on the system board.

Adding memory will not always improve performance. If your computer has sufficient memory, installing extra memory will not improve performance.

Performance?

For instructions on how to add main memory modules, refer to “Installing Main Memory” on page 27.

Upgrading the Video Memory

1 Why Upgrade?

Upgrading the Video Memory

How Does Video Memory Work?

How Much Video Memory Does My Computer Have?

Why Increase the Amount of Video Memory?

How Much Video Memory Can I Add?

The image on the screen is made up of tiny dots called pixels. Each pixel has a color, and every color is represented by a value. Video memory stores the color value of every pixel.

The screen resolution determines how many pixels make up a displayed screen. The number of pixels required is typically very large (for example, 300,000 pixels for a standard VGA screen with a resolution of 640

The amount of video memory that your computer has depends on the particular model that you have. You may have 1 MB or 2 MB of video memory installed on the system board. To find out how much video memory is installed, from Windows 95 select the Display icon from the Control Panel and click the Settings tab, then select the Advanced Properties button.

Increasing your display resolution will increase the total number of pixels needed to define an entire screen. Similarly, increasing the number of displayable colors will increase the amount of data required to display the pixels. Increasing either of these parameters will increase your requirement for video memory.

More video memory makes it possible to obtain higher screen resolutions, higher refresh rates (the frequency at which the screen’s horizontal lines are recharged), and many more colors for existing resolutions.

If your computer has 1 MB of video memory on the system board, you can increase it to 2 MB. To find out how much video memory is installed, from Windows 95 select the Display icon from the Control Panel and click the Settings tab, then select the Advanced Properties button.

× 480).

For instructions on how to upgrade the video memory, refer to “Installing Video Memory” on page 30

Installing Expansion Cards

1 Why Upgrade?

Installing Expansion Cards

What Is an Expansion Card?

How Many Expansion Cards Do I Have?

Why Add More Expansion Cards?

Expansion cards have sockets at one end which, once the card is installed, are accessible from the back of the computer. There are two types of expansion cards that you can install in your computer: Industry-Standard Architecture (ISA)

cards and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) cards. PCI cards use the computer’s PCI bus (information pathway), and ISA cards use the computer’s ISA bus. The PCI bus is faster than the ISA bus.

The number of expansion cards that your computer has depends on the particular model that you have. You can tell how many cards are installed by looking at the back of your computer and counting the number of slots that are occupied. This is the number of expansion cards that are installed.

These three upper expansion card slots are not available.

Expansion card slots

Back of computer

Adding more expansion cards will increase the capability of your computer.

How Many Expansion Cards Can I Install?

Your computer supports up to five cards.

Note

For instructions on how to add an expansion card, refer to “Installing Expansion Cards” on page 33

The three upper expansion card slots cannot be used.

Installing Storage Devices

1 Why Upgrade?

Installing Storage Devices

How Many Storage Devices Does My Computer Have?

Why Add More Storage Devices?

How Many Storage Devices Can I Add?

Your computer is supplied with one hard disk drive mounted on an internal shelf, and one front-access 3.5-inch floppy disk drive. There may also be a CD-ROM drive installed.

Adding additional storage devices is often necessary when, for example, a large amount of information needs to be frequently accessed.

The number of storage devices that you can add to your computer is determined by the number of mounting shelves that are unused and by the number of storage device interface channels that are unused.

In addition to the 3.5-inch floppy disk drive and a hard disk drive, your computer has four front-access device shelves available for new drives (note that one of these shelves may already be occupied by a CD-ROM drive). There is also one internal shelf available, which may be used for an additional hard disk drive.

The on-system board electronics have a total of six interface channels that can support up to six storage devices—two FDD (Floppy Disk Drive) devices and four IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) devices.

Note

You can install a non-IDE device such as a SCSI drive but you will also need to install an interface card and software for it.

For instructions on how to add a storage device, refer to “Installing Storage Devices” on page 45

Upgrading the Processor

1 Why Upgrade?

Upgrading the Processor

What Is the Processor?

Why Upgrade the Processor?

What Is the Fastest Processor I Can Install?

The processor communicates with other parts of the computer via three buses (information pathways):

• the processor’s local bus

• the PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) bus

• the ISA (Industry-Standard Architecture) bus

Each bus connects functional components of the computer which have similar data-handling requirements. The three buses operate at different speeds and are connected via bridges. (A bridge converts data from one bus into a format that is suitable for the destination bus.)

The speed at which the processor can perform tasks is determined by the processor’s internal speed; the faster the internal speed, the faster tasks can be performed. Replacing the processor by one with a faster internal speed will improve the performance of your computer.

New, faster processors are being developed all the time. Check with your HP-authorized support agent or reseller to find out what is the fastest processor that you can install in your computer.

For instructions on how to install a processor upgrade, refer to “Installing a Processor Upgrade” on page 56.

1 Why Upgrade?

Upgrading the BIOS

What Is the BIOS? The BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) is the set of programs that automates the computer’s components. The BIOS is

stored in a chip on the system board.

The BIOS simplifies the instructions necessary for the operating system and the programs running on your computer, thereby reducing their size and making the system more efficient.

Why Upgrade the BIOS?

How Do I Upgrade the BIOS?

Hewlett-Packard are continually improving the BIOS in their computers, introducing new features and making them more efficient. You can therefore keep your own computer up-to-date by upgrading the BIOS.

To upgrade your system BIOS, download the appropriate BIOS utility from our Web support site.

World-Wide Web URL http://www.hp.com/go/smallbizsupport

1 Why Upgrade?

Upgrading the BIOS

Installing Accessories in Your Computer

2 Installing Accessories in Your Computer

Supported HP Accessories

This chapter describes how to install memory, storage devices (such as a hard disk drive, floppy disk drive, CD-ROM drive, Zip drive, or tape drive), and expansion cards in your computer.

Your computer might have one or more expansion cards preinstalled. Some of the additional accessories that you can add to your computer are shown here.

Second 3.5inch Hard Disk Drive bay

Preinstalled

3.5-inch Floppy Disk Drive

(Drive A)

Preinstalled

3.5-inch Hard Disk Drive

(Drive C)

Expansion Cards

For example, a LAN card

† Sockets are shown filled. Empty sockets indicate that an upgrade is

possible.

Front Bezel

VESA Feature Connector

Video Memory Upgrade Modules

†

1 MB (2 × 512 KB modules)

Front-Access Device Shelves

· IDE CD-ROM Drive bay

· Tape or Zip Drive bay

· 5.25-inch Floppy or Hard Disk Drive bay

· Preinstalled 3.5-inch Floppy Disk Drive (Drive A)

· Second 3.5-inch Floppy Disk Drive bay

Backplane connector

Power Connectors (to power supply)

JP5

System Board

JP7

IDE and Floppy Drive Connectors

System Board Configuration Jumpers

Backup Battery Front Bezel Switch

JP37

DCBA

Connector Memory Module Order:

Left to right: A, B, C, D

Main Memory Upgrade Modules

8 MB, 16 MB or 32 MB

Front Bezel Fan Connector

Processor Fan Connector

Processor Upgrade

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