Chapter 2: Installation
2-3
Socket Key
(Socket Notch)
South Center Edge
North Center Edge
Socket clip
CPU in the CPU socket
Plastic cap
is released
from the
load plate
if the CPU
is properly
installed.
3. Use your thumb and your index fi nger
to hold the CPU at the North Center
Edge and the South Center Edge of
the CPU.
4. Align CPU Pin1 (the CPU corner
marked with a triangle) against the
socket corner that is marked with a
triangle cutout.
5. Align the CPU key that is the semi-
circle cutout below a gold dot against the
socket key, the notch on the same side of
the triangle cutout on the socket.
6. 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.)
7. With the CPU inside the socket,
inspect the four corners of the CPU
to make sure that the CPU is properly
installed.
8. Use your thumb to gently push the
socket clip down to the clip lock.
9. If the CPU is properly installed into
the socket, the plastic cap will be auto-
matically released from the load plate
when the clip is pushed into the clip
lock. Remove the plastic cap from the
motherboard.
(Warning: Please keep the plastic
cap. The motherboard and the CPU
must be shipped with the plastic cap
properly installed to protect the CPU
pins. Shipment without the CPU plastic
cap properly installed will void the war-
ranty.)
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CPU Key
(semi-circle
cutout) below
the circle.
CPU Pin1
Corner with a
triangle cutout
gold dot