Chapter 2: Installation
Loading the Processor into the Socket | North Center Edge |
1.Use your thumb and your index finger to hold the CPU at the North
Center Edge and the South Center Edge of the CPU.
2.Align CPU Pin1 (the CPU corner marked with a triangle) against the socket corner that is marked with a triangle cutout.
South Center Edge gold dot
3.Align the CPU key that is the semi-
circle cutout below a gold dot against
the socket key, the notch on the CPU Key (semi- same side of the triangle cutout on circle cutout)
the socket. | below the circle. |
4.Once aligned, carefully lower the CPU straight down to the socket. (Do not drop the CPU on the socket. Do not move the CPU horizontally or vertically. Do not rub the CPU against the surface or against any pins of the socket to avoid damage to the CPU or the socket.)
5.With the CPU installed in the socket, inspect the four corners of the CPU to make sure that the CPU is properly installed. Then, close the load plate.
6.Use your thumb to gently push the load lever down to lock it.
7.If the CPU is properly installed into the socket, the plastic cap will be automatically released from the load plate when the clip is pushed in the clip lock. Remove the plastic cap from the motherboard.
!Warning: Please save the plastic PnP cap. The motherboard must be shipped with the PnP cap properly in- stalled to protect socket pins. Shipment without the PnP cap properly installed will cause damage to the socket pins.
Corner with a
triangle cutout CPU Pin1
Load Lever
CPU in the CPU socket
Plastic cap is released from the load plate if the CPU properly in- stalled.