Install the front top cover

Follow instructions in this section to install the front top cover.

About this task

S033

CAUTION

Hazardous energy present. Voltages with hazardous energy might cause heating when shorted with metal, which might result in spattered metal, burns, or both.

S014

CAUTION

Hazardous voltage, current, and energy levels might be present. Only a qualified service technician is authorized to remove the covers where the label is attached.

Attention

• Read Installation Guidelines and Safety inspection checklist to ensure that you work safely.

• Power off the server and peripheral devices and disconnect the power cords and all external cables. See Power off the server.

• Prevent exposure to static electricity, which might lead to system halt and loss of data, by keeping static-sensitive components in their static-protective packages until installation, and handling these devices with an electrostatic-discharge wrist strap or other grounding systems.

Operating the server with the top cover removed might damage server components. For proper cooling and airflow, install the top cover before you turn on the server.

Note

A new top cover comes without a service label attached. If you need a service label, order it together with the new top cover and attach the service label to the new top cover first.

Procedure

1. Check your server and ensure that:

   • All cables, adapters, and other components are installed and seated correctly and that you have not left loose tools or parts inside the server.

   • All internal cables are connected and routed correctly. See Internal cable routing.

2. Install the top cover to your server.
   Attention

   Handle the top cover carefully. Dropping the top cover with the cover latch open might damage the cover latches.

   Figure 1. Top cover installation
   

   

   
   
   1. Lower the front top cover onto the chassis until both sides of the top cover engage the guides on both sides of the chassis.
   2. Use a screwdriver to install the screws to secure the front top cover.
3. Install the server into the racks. See Install the server to the rack.