Cpu Installation - Asus ESC500 G3 User Manual

2.3.1

CPU installation

1. Locate the CPU socket on the motherboard.
Before installing the CPU, ensure that the socket box is facing toward you and
the load lever is on your right.
2. Press the load lever with your
thumb (A), then move it to the right
(B) until it is released from the
retention tab.
Do not remove the PnP cap yet
from the CPU socket. Doing so
may bend the pins of the socket.
3. Lift the load lever until the load
plate is completely lifted.
4. Position the CPU above the socket,
ensuring that the gold triangle mark
is on the bottom-left corner of the
socket, then fit the CPU notches to
the socket's alignment keys.
The CPU fits in only one
orientation. DO NOT force the
CPU into the socket to prevent
bending the pins on the socket
and damaging the CPU.
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Load plate
Gold
triangle
mark
Alignment
key
Chapter 2: Hardware setup
Load lever
Retention tab
CPU notches
Alignment
key