Specifications
Table Of Contents
- Safety information
- Chapter 1. General information
- Chapter 2. Server setup road map
- Chapter 3. Product overview
- Chapter 4. Turning on and turning off the server
- Chapter 5. Configuring the server
- Chapter 6. Installing, removing, or replacing hardware
- Guidelines
- Removing the server cover
- Removing and reinstalling the front bezel
- Removing and reinstalling the PCI card bracket assembly
- Installing, removing, or replacing hardware
- Installing or removing a memory module
- Installing or removing the Ethernet card
- Installing or removing the RAID card
- Installing or removing the ThinkServer RAID 500 Upgrade Key for Advanced RAID
- Installing or removing the ThinkServer RAID 700 Battery
- Installing or replacing an optical drive
- Installing or removing a non-hot-swap hard disk drive
- Installing or replacing an internal RDX drive
- Installing or replacing a 2.5-inch solid-state drive
- Installing or replacing a hot-swap hard disk drive
- Installing or replacing a hot-swap redundant power supply
- Replacing the power distribution board and cage assembly
- Replacing the power conversion board
- Replacing the hot-swap hard-disk-drive backplane
- Replacing the non-hot-swap power supply assembly
- Replacing the cover presence switch
- Replacing the front panel board assembly
- Replacing the front system fan 1
- Replacing the rear system fan
- Replacing the heat sink and fan assembly
- Replacing the microprocessor
- Replacing the system board battery
- Replacing the system board
- Completing the parts replacement
- Chapter 7. Troubleshooting and diagnostics
- Chapter 8. Getting information, help, and service
- Appendix A. Notices
- Trademarks
- Important notes
- Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) cable and cord notice
- Recycling information
- Particulate contamination
- Important WEEE information
- Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS)
- German Ordinance for Work gloss statement
- Export classification notice
- Electronic emission notices
- Eurasian compliance mark
- Index

Installingorreplacinganopticaldrive
Attention:Donotopenyourserverorattemptanyrepairbeforereadingandunderstanding“Safetyinformation”
onpageiiiand“Guidelines”onpage65.
Thistopicprovidesinstructionsonhowtoinstallorreplaceanopticaldrive.
TheEMIintegrityandcoolingoftheserverareprotectedbyhavingalldrivebayscoveredoroccupied.Your
serverhastwoopticaldrivebays.Ifonlyoneopticaldriveisinstalledinthelowerbay,theupperbayis
coveredbyametalEMIshieldonthechassisandalsoaplasticshieldonthefrontbezel.Whenyouinstalla
secondaryopticaldrive,savetheremovedEMIshieldfromthechassisandplasticshieldfromthefrontbezel
incaseyoulaterremovethedriveandneedtheshieldstocoverthedrivebay.
Attention:AnunoccupieddrivebaywithoutanyotherprotectionmightimpacttheEMIintegrityandcooling
oftheserver,whichmightresultinoverheatingorcomponentdamage.TomaintaintheEMIintegrityand
coolingoftheserver,installanewopticaldriveassoonasyouremovethefailingoneortheprotectiveshields.
CAUTION:
Whenlaserproducts(suchasCD-ROMs,DVDdrives,fiberopticdevices,ortransmitters)are
installed,notethefollowing:
•Donotremovethecovers.Removingthecoversofthelaserproductcouldresultinexposureto
hazardouslaserradiation.Therearenoserviceablepartsinsidethedevice.
•Useofcontrolsoradjustmentsorperformanceofproceduresotherthanthosespecifiedherein
mightresultinhazardousradiationexposure.
DANGER
SomelaserproductscontainanembeddedClass3AorClass3Blaserdiode.Notethefollowing:
Laserradiationwhenopen.Donotstareintothebeam,donotviewdirectlywithoptical
instruments,andavoiddirectexposuretothebeam.
Beforeyoubegin,reviewthefollowingopticaldriveinstallationrules:
•Theserverhastwoopticaldrivebays.Iftheserverhasonlyoneopticaldriveinstalled,ensurethatthe
opticaldriveisinstalledinthelowerbay(opticaldrivebay1).Theupperbayisforasecondaryoptical
driveonly.
•Thefollowingtableprovidesinformationabouttherecommendedpowerconnectorandconnectoronthe
systemboardfortheinstalledopticaldrive.See“Servercomponents”onpage23forthelocationsof
theopticaldrivebaysand“Systemboardcomponents”onpage39forthelocationsoftheconnectors
onthesystemboard.
DrivebayDrivePowerconnector
Connectoronthesystemboard
Opticaldrivebay1(lower
bay)
Anopticaldrive
installed
SATA4connector
Opticaldrivebay2(upper
bay)
Anopticaldrive
installedinsome
models
4-pinpower
connector
SATA3connector
Beforeyoubegin,printalltherelatedinstructionsorensurethatyoucanviewthePDFversiononanother
computerforreference.
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