Install Your CPU

Install Your CPU

Now it’s time to install your CPU. First you need to lift the locking clip on the side of the CPU socket until it’s
perpendicular to the motherboard. Don’t worry if the socket makes an old sound when you do this.

Before you can install your CPU, you need to lift the retaining lever.
Raise it until it’s prependicular to the motherboard.
Next, remove it from its protective case you should leave the CPU cooler in
the packaging for the time being though being extremely careful not to touch
the pins on the bottam of the CPU. Flip the CPU over and line up the keyed pins on
the bottom of the CPU with the keyed pins on the socket. Most CPUs and sockets also have a small
triangle on one corner. You can use those triangles to line the CPU and socket up
if you have problems telling which is which.

Now line up the CPU with the socket. It should only go in one way. Note that the corner with
the triangle on the CPU lines up with the corner with the triangle on the socket.
Lower the CPU into the socket. IF it doesn’t slide right in, DO NOT FORCE IT.
The socket is called a Zero Insertion Force socket for a reason.
Gently move the CPU until the pins on all the four sides line up with the holes in the socket.
When it does, the CPU will just fall into place.
If it doesn’t drop into place, lift the CPU and make sure that you have the keyed corners of the CPU and socket lined up right.

Carefully lower the CPU into the socket. This should require absolutely no force at all. When you have it lined up properly, it will just drop into place.
Once the CPU is nestled snugly in the socket, you need to lock it into place.
Simply lower the locking lever back down until it snaps back into the socket.

Once the CPU’s silicon substrate is flush with the socket,
>you should lock it into place by moving the locking lever back down.


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