Lenovo IDEACENTRE 300s series, Maintenance Manual

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Hardware components
The following illustration shows the components that make up your computer.
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1. Heat-sink and CPU fan 3. Optical disk drive and bay
2. System board 4. Hard disk drive
Identifying parts on the motherboard
The motherboard (sometimes called the planar or system board) is the main circuit board in your computer.
It provides basic computing functions and supports a variety of devices that are factory-installed or that
you can install later. The following illustration shows the location of connectors and components on the
front of the motherboard.
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ideacentre 300S Series Hardware Maintenance Manual