Supermicro X7DBX-8 User Manual page 23

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 hori-
zontally or vertically. Do not rub the
CPU against the surface or against
any pins of the socket to avoid dam-
age 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 prop-
erly 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 automatically released from the
load plate when the clip is pushed in
the clip lock. Remove the plastic cap
from the motherboard.
(*Warning: Please save the
!
plastic cap. The motherboard must
be shipped with the plastic cap
properly installed to protect the CPU
socket pins. Shipment without the
plastic cap properly installed will
cause damage to the socket pins.)
North Center Edge
South Center Edge
Socket Key
(Socket Notch)
CPU Key (semi-
circle cutout)
below the circle.
Corner with a
triangle cutout
CPU Pin1
Socket clip
CPU in the CPU socket
Plastic cap
is released
from the
load plate
if the CPU
is properly
installed.
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Chapter 2: Installation
gold dot