Prerequisites
Ensure that you read the Safety instructions.
Turn off the system, including any attached peripherals.
Disconnect the system from the electrical outlet and disconnect the peripherals.
Remove the system cover.
Remove the cooling shroud.
NOTE:The memory modules are hot to touch for some time after the system has been powered down. Allow the memory modules to cool before handling them. Handle the memory modules by the card edges and avoid touching the components or metallic contacts on the memory module.
Removing memory modules:
Locate the appropriate memory module socket.
CAUTION: Handle each memory module only by the card edges, ensuring not to touch the middle of the memory module or metallic contacts.
To release the memory module from the socket, simultaneously press the ejectors on both ends of the memory-module socket.
a. memory-module
b. memory-module socket
c. memory module socket ejector (2)
Installing memory modules:
Locate the appropriate memory-module socket.
CAUTION: Handle each memory module only by the card edges, ensuring not to touch the middle of the memory module or metallic contacts.
If installed, remove the cooling fan assembly. For more information, see Removing the cooling-fan assembly.
If a memory module or a memory-module blank is installed in the socket, remove it.
NOTE:Retain the removed memory-module blank(s) for future use.
CAUTION: To prevent damage to the memory module or the memory-module socket during installation, do not bend or flex the memory module; insert both ends of the memory module simultaneously.
Align the edge connector of the memory module with the alignment key of the memory module socket, and insert the memory module in the socket.
NOTE:The memory-module socket has an alignment key that allows you to install the memory module in the socket in only one orientation.
CAUTION:Do not apply pressure at the center of the memory module; apply pressure at both ends of the memory module evenly.
Press the memory module with your thumbs until the socket levers firmly click into place.
a. memory module
b. alignment key
c. memory-module socket ejector (2)
When the memory module is properly seated in the socket, the levers on the memory module socket align with the levers on the other sockets that have memory modules installed.
Repeat steps 4 and 5 of this procedure to install the remaining memory modules.
