SUPER MICRO Computer AOC-R1UG-IBQ manual Chapter Safety Guidelines, ESD Safety Guidelines

Chapter 1

Safety Guidelines

To avoid personal injury and property damage, carefully follow all the safety steps listed below when accessing your system or handling the components.

1-1 ESD Safety Guidelines

Electric Static Discharge (ESD) can damage electronic components. To prevent damage to your system, it is important to handle it very carefully. The following measures are generally sufficient to protect your equipment from ESD.

•Use a grounded wrist strap designed to prevent static discharge.

•Touch a grounded metal object before removing a component from the antistatic bag.

•Handle the add-on card by its edges only; do not touch its components, peripheral chips, memory modules or gold contacts.

•When handling chips or modules, avoid touching their pins.

•Put the card and peripherals back into their antistatic bags when not in use.

1-2 General Safety Guidelines

•Always disconnect power cables before installing or removing any components from the computer.

•Disconnect the power cable before installing or removing any cables from the system.

•Make sure that the add-on card is securely and properly installed on the motherboard to prevent damage to the system due to power shortage.

1-3 An Important Note to Users

All images and layouts shown in this user's guide are based upon the latest PCB Revision available at the time of publishing. The card you have received may or may not look exactly the same as the graphics shown in this manual.

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