Remove the air baffle

Follow instructions in this section 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 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.

Procedure

1. Make preparation for the task.
   1. If the server is installed in a rack, slide the server out on its rack slide rails to gain access to the top cover, or remove the server from the rack. See Remove the server from rack.
   2. Remove the top cover. See Remove the top cover.
   3. If there is a RAID flash power module installed on the air baffle, disconnect the cable of the RAID flash power module.
   4. If there is an M.2 drive installed on the air baffle, disconnect M.2 backplane cables from the M.2 backplane.
   5. If there is a GPU installed on the air baffle, remove the GPU. See Remove a GPU adapter.
2. Grasp the air baffle and carefully lift it out of the chassis.
   Attention

   For proper cooling and airflow, reinstall the air baffle before you turn on the server. Operating the server with the air baffle removed might damage server components.

   Figure 1. Removing the air baffle
   
   
3. (Optional) Remove the filler from the air baffle if you are replacing a performance heat sink or Direct Water Cooling Module (DWCM) with a 2U standard or advanced heat sink.
   Figure 2. Removing the air baffle filler