Owners Manual

Table Of Contents
Related references
Safety instructions on page 71
Related tasks
Before working inside your system on page 72
Removing the cooling shroud on page 79
Installing the cooling shroud on page 80
After working inside your system on page 72
Processors and heat sinks
Use the following procedures when:
Removing and installing a heat sink
Installing an additional processor
Replacing a processor
NOTE: To ensure proper cooling, you must install a processor blank in any empty processor socket.
Removing a heat sink
Prerequisites
1. If installed, remove the full-length PCIe card(s).
2. Remove the cooling shroud.
Steps
1. Loosen one of the screws that secure the heat sink to the system board.
Allow some time (approximately 30 seconds) for the heat sink to loosen from the processor.
2. Remove the screw diagonally opposite to the screw that you first removed.
3. Repeat step 1 and 2 for removing the remaining two screws.
4. Remove the heat sink.
Figure 65. Removing a heat sink
1.
retention screw (4) 2. heat sink
3. processor socket 4. retention screw slot (4)
128 Installing and removing system components