Installing A Card - HP A10500 Series Manual

Figure 17 Attach an ESD-prevent wrist strap (on an A10508)
(1) ESD-preventive wrist strap port (having an ESD sign)

Installing a card

NOTE:
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No blank panel is available on some card slots when your switch is shipped. The figures in this chapter
are for illustration only.
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Before installing a card to the chassis, in order to avoid damaging the backplane, make sure that the
connectors on the card are not broken or blocked.
The cards on the A10500 Switch Series include MPUs, LPUs, and switching fabric modules, which can be
installed in horizontal or vertical slots.
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Horizontal slot—with the PCB board on the card facing up
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Vertical slot—with the PCB board on the card facing left
All the cards of the A10500 Switch Series are hot swappable, and the installation procedures are similar.
The following takes a card installed in a horizontal slot as an example.
To install a card:
Wear an ESD-preventive wrist strap, and make sure it makes good skin contact and is well
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grounded. For more information, see
As shown in callout 1 on
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the blank panel properly for future use.
"Attaching an ESD-preventive wrist
Figure 18, remove the blank panel (if any) from the slot to be used. Keep
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strap."