Chapter 5: Advanced Serverboard Setup

3. Use your thumb and your index finger

 

to hold the CPU. Locate and align pin

 

1 of the CPU socket with pin 1 of the

 

CPU. Both are marked with a triangle.

 

4. Align pin 1 of the CPU with pin 1 of the

 

socket. Once aligned, carefully place

 

the CPU into the socket. Do not drop

 

the CPU on the socket, move the CPU

 

horizontally or vertically or rub the CPU

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against the socket or against any pins

 

of the socket, which may damage the

 

CPU and/or the socket.

 

5.With the CPU inserted into the socket, inspect the four corners of the CPU to make sure that it is properly installed and flush with the socket. Then, gently lower the silver CPU retention plate into place.

6.Carefully press the CPU socket lever down until it locks into its retention tab. For a dual-CPU system, repeat these steps to install another CPU into the CPU#2 socket (and into CPU#2, #3 and #4 sockets for a quad-CPU configuration).

Note: in single and dual-CPU configurations, memory must be installed in the DIMM slots associated with the installed CPU(s). Memory is limited to a maximum of 128 for single CPU and 256 GB for dual CPU configurations.

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