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6000ABX User’s Manual
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Hardware Installation
Chapter 3
Static Precautions
Static-sensitive electrical discharge can damage electronic components. To prevent
damage to your system board, it is important to handle it very carefully. The following
measures are generally sufficient to protect your equipment from static discharge.
Precautions
Use a grounded wrist strap designed for static discharge.
Touch a grounded metal object before you remove the board from the anti-static
bag.
Handle the board by its 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 system board and peripherals back into their anti-static bags when not in
use.
For grounding purposes, be sure your computer system’s chassis provides
excellent conductive contact between its power supply, case, the mounting
fasteners, and the system board.
Unpacking
The system board is shipped in anti-static packaging to avoid static damage.
When unpacking the board, be sure the person handling the board is static-protected.
3-1 CPU installation
Please refer to Chapter 1 “Quick Reference and Installation”.
NOTE: When handling the processor package, avoid placing direct
pressure on the label area of the fan.
Heat Sink
Follow the instructions that came with your processor or heat sink to attach a heat
sink to the processor. Make sure that good contact is made between the CPU chip
and the heat sink.
Processor
You are now ready to install the processor. Your motherboard has a 370-pin, PPGA
type socket, which supports 370-pin (not SEPP type) Celeron processors. Lift the
lever on the PPGA socket and install with the notched corner of the processor
oriented with pin 1. Fully seat the processor into the socket and then close the lever.
See Figure on next page for views of the PPGA 370-pin socket before and after
processor installation.
You should install the processor to the motherboard first, then install the
motherboard in the chassis, then the memory and add-on cards, and finally the
cables and drivers. Following the installation procedures in the order they appear in
this chapter should eliminate the most common problems encountered when
installing a system.
