- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Working inside your computer
- Removing and installing components
- Recommended tools
- Screw list
- Major components of Precision 7960 Tower
- Backplanes supported on Precision 7960 Tower
- Left-side cover
- Front bezel
- Front optical-drive and hard-drive bezel
- Front optical-drive and hard-drive inner bezel
- Top cover
- Front I/O-bezel
- Front I/O-board
- Rear bezel
- Air shroud
- Memory fan
- Memory module
- Heat sink
- Processor
- Coin-cell battery
- External storage flexbay (Hard drive)
- Removing the front 2.5-inch hard-drive assembly
- Installing the front 2.5-inch hard-drive assembly
- Removing the front 3.5-inch hard-drive assembly
- Installing the front 3.5-inch hard-drive assembly
- Removing the rear 2.5-inch hard-drive assembly
- Installing the rear 2.5-inch hard-drive assembly
- Removing the rear 3.5-inch hard-drive assembly
- Installing the rear 3.5-inch hard-drive assembly
- Removing the external 2.5-inch hard-drive caddy
- Installing the external 2.5-inch hard-drive caddy
- Removing the external 3.5-inch hard-drive caddy
- Installing the external 3.5-inch hard-drive caddy
- M.2 solid-state drive module
- External storage flexbay (Solid-state drive)
- Slim optical-drive
- PCIe holder
- Front fan
- Rear fans
- Expansion card
- Removing the powered graphics-card
- Installing the powered graphics-card
- Removing the non-powered graphics card
- Installing the non-powered graphics card
- Removing the UltraSpeed Duo card
- Installing the UltraSpeed Duo solid-state drive
- Installing the UltraSpeed Duo card
- Removing the UltraSpeed Quad card
- Installing the UltraSpeed Quad solid-state drive
- Installing the UltraSpeed Quad card
- Removing the Thunderbolt 4 PCIe card
- Installing the Thunderbolt 4 PCIe card
- Removing the wireless card
- Installing the wireless card
- Speaker
- Right-side cover
- Power-supply unit
- Power-distribution board
- Front-NVMe module
- Rear-NVMe module
- Front SATA/SAS module
- Rear SATA/SAS module
- Front SATA hard-drive modules
- System board
- Rail kit
- Drivers and downloads
- BIOS Setup
- Troubleshooting
- Getting help and contacting Dell
Precision 7960 Tower Service Manual
Installing the processor
Prerequisites
If you are replacing a component, remove the existing component before performing the installation procedure.
About this task
The following images provide a visual representation of the processor installation procedure.
Steps
- Pivot the release-lever up and align the pin-1 marks on the processor and processor carrier.
- Gently press one side of processor carrier to insert the processor on the carrier and align the processor and processor carrier through the bottom alignment feature.
- When the processor is fully seated in the processor carrier, pivot the release-lever down and place it under the tab on the processor carrier.
- Align pin-1 indicator of the processor carrier with the corner cutout of heat-sink assembly.
- Using the four keying latches on processor carrier, secure the processor carrier to the heat-sink assembly.
Next steps
- Install the heat-sink assembly.
- Install the left-side cover.
- Follow the procedure in After working inside your computer.
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