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Iii. installation, Central processing unit (cpu) – Asus P2L97A User Manual

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ASUS P2L97A User’s Manual

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III. INSTALLATION

3. Central Processing Unit (CPU)

The following items should have been included with your motherboard:

Pentium II Retention
Mechanism

Lock Holes

Captive Nut

Attach Mount Bridges
(Factory Installed)

Heatsink Support Base/Top Bar
(for Passive Heatsink)

Top Bar

Base

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The following items must be purchased separately from ASUS or a third party vendor:

AAVID Heatsink

Elan Vital Heatsink

Pentium II Processor Passive Heatsink

Heatsink bottom Groove
for the Support Top Bar

Larger Fin should
be on the bottom.

The heatsinks shown are only recommendations. Check with your vendor for other
compatible heatsinks if you wish. The procedures shown in this manual are for in-
stalling the AAVID heatsink with fan. The procedures for installing the Elan Vital
heatsink with fan is also similar as that for the AAVID heatsink. The Elan Vital heatsink,
however, comes with a lever to clamp the heatsink into the SEC cartridge. Mount the
heatsink in the orientation shown then flip the lever from “Unlock” to “Lock.”

WARNING!

Be sure that sufficient air circulation is available across the

processor’s heatsink by regularly checking that your CPU fan is working. With-
out sufficient circulation, the processor could overheat and damage both the pro-
cessor and the motherboard. You may install an auxiliary fan, if necessary.

Intel Pentium II Processor in an SEC Cartridge

(233–333MHz 256/512KB L2 Cache)

CPU

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