Specifications
Table Of Contents
- Safety information
- Chapter 1. General information
- Chapter 2. Server setup road map
- Chapter 3. Product overview
- Chapter 4. Turning on and turning off the server
- Chapter 5. Configuring the server
- Chapter 6. Installing, removing, or replacing hardware
- Guidelines
- Removing the server cover
- Removing and reinstalling the front bezel
- Removing and reinstalling the PCI card bracket assembly
- Installing, removing, or replacing hardware
- Installing or removing a memory module
- Installing or removing the Ethernet card
- Installing or removing the RAID card
- Installing or removing the ThinkServer RAID 500 Upgrade Key for Advanced RAID
- Installing or removing the ThinkServer RAID 700 Battery
- Installing or replacing an optical drive
- Installing or removing a non-hot-swap hard disk drive
- Installing or replacing an internal RDX drive
- Installing or replacing a 2.5-inch solid-state drive
- Installing or replacing a hot-swap hard disk drive
- Installing or replacing a hot-swap redundant power supply
- Replacing the power distribution board and cage assembly
- Replacing the power conversion board
- Replacing the hot-swap hard-disk-drive backplane
- Replacing the non-hot-swap power supply assembly
- Replacing the cover presence switch
- Replacing the front panel board assembly
- Replacing the front system fan 1
- Replacing the rear system fan
- Replacing the heat sink and fan assembly
- Replacing the microprocessor
- Replacing the system board battery
- Replacing the system board
- Completing the parts replacement
- Chapter 7. Troubleshooting and diagnostics
- Chapter 8. Getting information, help, and service
- Appendix A. Notices
- Trademarks
- Important notes
- Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) cable and cord notice
- Recycling information
- Particulate contamination
- Important WEEE information
- Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS)
- German Ordinance for Work gloss statement
- Export classification notice
- Electronic emission notices
- Eurasian compliance mark
- Index

•ThefrontpanelboardassemblyissensitivetoESD.Ensurethatyoureadandunderstand“Handling
static-sensitivedevices”onpage66
firstandcarefullyperformtheoperation.
Toreplacethefrontpanelboardassembly,dothefollowing:
1.Removeallmediafromthedrivesandturnoffallattacheddevicesandtheserver.Then,disconnectall
powercordsfromelectricaloutletsanddisconnectallcablesthatareconnectedtotheserver.
2.Removetheservercover.See“Removingtheservercover”onpage67.
3.Removethefrontbezel.See“Removingandreinstallingthefrontbezel”onpage69.
4.Locatethefrontpanel.See“Frontpanel”onpage16.
5.Removethefrontsystemfans.See“Replacingthefrontsystemfan1”onpage144.
6.DisconnectthesignalcablesofthefrontpanelboardassemblyfromthefrontUSB3.0connector,the
frontpanelconnector,andthethermalsensorconnectoronthesystemboard.See“Systemboard
components”onpage39
.
7.Ifnecessary,removeanypartsordisconnectanycablesthatmightimpedeyouraccesstothesignal
cablesofthefrontpanelboardassembly.Recordthecablerouting,andthenreleasethesignalcables
ofthefrontpanelboardassemblyfromanycableclipsortiesinthechassis.
8.Removethescrew1onthechassisthatsecuresthefrontpanelboardassembly.Then,carefully
removethefrontpanelboardassemblyfromthechassisandpullthesignalcablesofthefrontpanel
boardassemblyoutofthechassis.
Figure99.Removingthefrontpanelboardassembly
9.Touchthestatic-protectivepackagethatcontainsthenewfrontpanelboardassemblytoanyunpainted
surfaceontheoutsideoftheserver.Then,takethenewfrontpanelboardassemblyoutofthepackage.
10.Recordthecableconnection.Then,disconnectthesignalcablesfromtherearoftheoldfrontpanel
boardassemblyandconnectthemtotherearofthenewone.
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