Remove the air baffle

Use this information to remove the air baffle.

About this task

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CAUTION

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

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CAUTION

Hazardous moving fan blades nearby. Keep fingers and other body parts away.

Attention

• Read Installation Guidelines to ensure that you work safely.

• Power off the server and disconnect all power cords for this task.

Procedure

1. Prepare your server.
   1. Remove the top cover. See Remove the top cover.
   2. If there is a RAID flash power module installed on the air baffle, disconnect the cable of the RAID flash power module first.
   3. If there is an M.2 drive installed on the air baffler, disconnect M.2 backplane cables from the system board.
   4. If there is a GPU installed on the air baffle, remove the GPU first. See Remove a GPU adapter.
2. Grasp the air baffle and carefully lift it out of the server.
   Note

   The illustrated air baffle is the standard air baffle. The removal procedure is the same for the GPU air baffle. For more information, see Remove a GPU adapter.

   Figure 1. Air baffle removal
   

   

   
   
3. (Optional) Remove the standard air baffler filler from the standard air baffle.
   Figure 2. Air baffle filler removal