Air shroud.......................................................................................................................................................................... 76

Removing the air shroud........................................................................................................................................... 76

Installing the air shroud..............................................................................................................................................77

Drives.................................................................................................................................................................................78

Removing a drive blank............................................................................................................................................. 78

Installing a drive blank................................................................................................................................................79

Removing a drive carrier........................................................................................................................................... 80

Installing a drive carrier.............................................................................................................................................. 81

Removing the drive from the drive carrier..............................................................................................................82

Installing a drive into the drive carrier......................................................................................................................83

Removing a 2.5 inch drive from a 3.5 inch drive adapter......................................................................................84

Installing a 2.5 inch drive into a 3.5 inch drive adapter..........................................................................................85

Removing a 3.5 inch drive adapter from a 3.5 inch drive carrier......................................................................... 86

Installing a 3.5 inch drive adapter into the 3.5 inch drive carrier.......................................................................... 87

Optical drives and tape drives........................................................................................................................................ 88

Removing the optical or tape drive blank............................................................................................................... 88

Installing the optical or tape drive blank..................................................................................................................89

Removing the optical drive cage or tape drive...................................................................................................... 90

Installing the optical drive cage or tape drive..........................................................................................................91

Cabled drives.................................................................................................................................................................... 92

Removing the internal hard drive bay......................................................................................................................92

Installing the internal hard drive bay........................................................................................................................ 93

Removing a cabled drive........................................................................................................................................... 94

Installing a cabled drive............................................................................................................................................. 95

Drive backplane................................................................................................................................................................96

Removing a hard drive backplane............................................................................................................................ 98

Installing a hard drive backplane.............................................................................................................................. 99

Backplane cabling......................................................................................................................................................101

System memory..............................................................................................................................................................104

Removing a memory module.................................................................................................................................. 106

Installing a memory module..................................................................................................................................... 107

Cooling fans.................................................................................................................................................................... 108

Removing the internal cooling fan..........................................................................................................................108

Installing the internal cooling fan............................................................................................................................ 109

Removing the external cooling fan ........................................................................................................................ 110

Installing the external cooling fan.............................................................................................................................111

Optional internal USB memory key............................................................................................................................... 112

Replacing optional internal USB memory key........................................................................................................ 112

Expansion card holder.....................................................................................................................................................113

Removing the expansion card holder......................................................................................................................113

Installing the expansion card holder........................................................................................................................ 114

Expansion cards...............................................................................................................................................................114

Expansion card installation guidelines..................................................................................................................... 114

GPU card installation guidelines.............................................................................................................................. 116

Removing a expansion card..................................................................................................................................... 116

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