User`s manual

D-2
SC213 Chassis Manaual
Safety Guidelines
To avoid personal injury and property damage, carefully follow all the safety
steps listed below when accessing your system or handling the compo-
nents.
D-1 ESD Safety Guidelines
Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) can damage electronic com ponents. To prevent dam-
age to your system, it is important to handle it very carefully. The following measures
are generally sufcient 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 backplane and daughter cards by their 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.•
D-2 General Safety Guidelines
Always disconnect power cables before installing or removing any components •
from the computer, including the backplane.
Disconnect the power cable before installing or removing any cables from the •
backplane.
Make sure that the backplane is securely and properly installed on the mother-•
board to prevent damage to the system due to power shortage.
D-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.