Chapter 2: Installation 3. Use your thumb and your index fin- ger to hold the CPU at the top center edge and the bottom center edge of the CPU. Top Center Edge 4. Align CPU Pin1 (the CPU corner marked with a triangle) against the socket corner that is marked with a triangle cutout. Bottom Center Edge 5. Align the CPU key that is the semi-circle cutout below a golden dot against the socket key, the Notch on the same side of the triangle cutout on the socket. Socket Key (Socket Notch) golden dot CPU Key (semi- circle cutout) below the circle. 6. Once aligned, carefully lower the CPU straight down to the socket. (Do not drop the CPU on the socket. Do not move the CPU horizontally or vertically.
Do not rub the CPU against the surface or against any pins of the socket to avoid damage to the CPU or the socket.) CPU Pin1 Corner with a triangle cutout 7. With the CPU inside the socket, inspect the four corners of the CPU to make sure that the CPU is properly installed. Load Lever 8. Use your thumb to gently push the load lever down to the lever lock. CPU in the CPU socket 9. If the CPU is properly installed into the socket, the plastic PnP cap will be automatically released from the load plate when the load lever is pushed in the lever lock. Remove the PnP cap from the motherboard. ! Warning: Please save the plastic PnP cap.
The motherboard must be shipped with the PnP cap properly installed to protect the CPU socket pins. Shipment without the PnP cap properly installed will cause damage to the socket pins. Plastic cap is released from the load plate if CPU properly installed. 2-3 ) i- .