- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Working inside your computer
- Removing and installing components
- Recommended tools
- Screw list
- Major components of Precision 7960 Tower
- Backplanes supported on Precision 7960 Tower
- Left-side cover
- Front bezel
- Front optical-drive and hard-drive bezel
- Front optical-drive and hard-drive inner bezel
- Top cover
- Front I/O-bezel
- Front I/O-board
- Rear bezel
- Air shroud
- Memory fan
- Memory module
- Heat sink
- Processor
- Coin-cell battery
- External storage flexbay (Hard drive)
- Removing the front 2.5-inch hard-drive assembly
- Installing the front 2.5-inch hard-drive assembly
- Removing the front 3.5-inch hard-drive assembly
- Installing the front 3.5-inch hard-drive assembly
- Removing the rear 2.5-inch hard-drive assembly
- Installing the rear 2.5-inch hard-drive assembly
- Removing the rear 3.5-inch hard-drive assembly
- Installing the rear 3.5-inch hard-drive assembly
- Removing the external 2.5-inch hard-drive caddy
- Installing the external 2.5-inch hard-drive caddy
- Removing the external 3.5-inch hard-drive caddy
- Installing the external 3.5-inch hard-drive caddy
- M.2 solid-state drive module
- External storage flexbay (Solid-state drive)
- Slim optical-drive
- PCIe holder
- Front fan
- Rear fans
- Expansion card
- Removing the powered graphics-card
- Installing the powered graphics-card
- Removing the non-powered graphics card
- Installing the non-powered graphics card
- Removing the UltraSpeed Duo card
- Installing the UltraSpeed Duo solid-state drive
- Installing the UltraSpeed Duo card
- Removing the UltraSpeed Quad card
- Installing the UltraSpeed Quad solid-state drive
- Installing the UltraSpeed Quad card
- Removing the Thunderbolt 4 PCIe card
- Installing the Thunderbolt 4 PCIe card
- Removing the wireless card
- Installing the wireless card
- Speaker
- Right-side cover
- Power-supply unit
- Power-distribution board
- Front-NVMe module
- Rear-NVMe module
- Front SATA/SAS module
- Rear SATA/SAS module
- Front SATA hard-drive modules
- System board
- Rail kit
- Drivers and downloads
- BIOS Setup
- Troubleshooting
- Getting help and contacting Dell
Precision 7960 Tower Service Manual
Updating the BIOS in Windows
About this task
CAUTION:If BitLocker is not suspended before updating the BIOS, the BitLocker key is not recognized the next time you reboot the computer. You will then be prompted to enter the recovery key to proceed, and the computer displays a prompt for the recovery key on each reboot. Failure to provide the recovery key can result in data loss or an operating system reinstall. For more information, see the Knowledge Base Resource
updating the BIOS on Dell systems with BitLocker enabled.
Steps
- Go to Dell Support Site.
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Go to
Identify your product or search support. In the box, enter the product identifier, model, service request or describe what you are looking for, and then click
Search.
NOTE: If you do not have the Service Tag, use the SupportAssist to automatically identify your computer. You can also use the product ID or manually browse for your computer model.
- Click Drivers & Downloads. Expand Find drivers.
- Select the operating system installed on your computer.
- In the Category drop-down list, select BIOS.
- Select the latest version of BIOS, and click Download to download the BIOS file for your computer.
- After the download is complete, browse the folder where you saved the BIOS update file.
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Double-click the BIOS update file icon and follow the on-screen instructions.
For more information, search in the Knowledge Base Resource at Dell Support Site.
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