To replace an expansion
unit in a PS704 blade
server, you must first remove the expansion unit.
- Read
the Safety topic and the Installation guidelines.
- Shut down the operating system,
turn off the blade server, and remove the blade server from the BladeCenter® unit. See Removing the blade server from a BladeCenter unit.
- Carefully lay the blade server
on a flat, static-protective surface, with the cover side up.
- Open and remove the blade
server
cover. See Removing the blade server cover.
- Use your thumb
to back out the
expansion blade retention thumb screw ( 4 )
by rotating the screw counterclockwise until the connection between
the expansion unit and the base unit is loose and the expansion unit
is fully separated from the base unit.
Figure 1. Removing the expansion unit
- Pivot the expansion unit
( 1 in Figure 2) up on the cover
pins of the base unit ( 2 ).
Figure 2. Removing the expansion
unit
- Lift the expansion
unit ( 1 in Figure 2) from the blade-server
base unit and lay it on a flat, static-protective surface.
- If you are replacing the expansion unit with a new expansion
unit, see Replacing the expansion unit in a PS704 blade server. If you
are removing the expansion unit as part of another procedure, return
to that procedure now.
- If you are instructed
to return the expansion unit, follow
all packaging instructions, and use any packaging materials for shipping
that are supplied to you.
