Installing And Removing A Vrm (Voltage Regulator Module) - Acer AcerAltos 21000 System Manual

2. Flip up both of the plastic ears of the Pentium II Xeon processor.
This procedure detaches the processor from the socket.
3. Carefully lift up the Pentium II Xeon processor and remove it.
3.1.5 Installing and Removing a VRM (Voltage
Regulator Module)
Each Pentium II Xeon processor requires two VRMs (Voltage
Regulator Modules), one for the processor and another one for the L2
cache. However, two L2 caches share one VRM. If you are installing
two Pentium II Xeon processor, you need three VRMs: two VRMs for
each processor and one VRM for both of the L2 cache to share.
Refer to section 3.1.2 for the location of the VRM sockets.
following table shows the VRM socket allocation:
VRM Socket
VRM Socket 1 (CN4)
VRM Socket 2 (CN11)
VRM Socket 3 (CN18)
VRM Socket 4 (CN20)
VRM Socket 5 (CN23)
VRM Socket 6 (CN29)
3-12
Slot 2 Socket
CPU 1
L2 cache of CPU 1 and 2
CPU 2
CPU 3
L2 cache of CPU 3 and 4
CPU 4
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