Supermicro SC946ED-R2KJBOD - B-3 ESD Safety Guidelines; B-4 General Safety Guidelines

B-3
Appendix B Backplane System Conguration
To avoid personal injury and property damage, carefully follow all the safety steps
listed below when accessing your system or handling the components.
B-3 ESD Safety Guidelines
Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) can damage electronic com ponents. To prevent dam-
age to your system, it is important to handle it very carefully. The following measures
are generally sufcient to protect your equipment from ESD.
•Use a grounded wrist strap designed to prevent static discharge.
•Touch a grounded metal object before removing a component from the antistatic
bag.
•Handle the backplane by its edges only; do not touch its components, peripheral
chips, memory modules or gold contacts.
•When handling chips or modules, avoid touching their pins.
•Put the backplane and peripherals back into their antistatic bags when not in use.
B-4 General Safety Guidelines
•Always disconnect power cables before installing or removing any components
from the computer, including the backplane.
•Disconnect the power cable before installing or removing any cables from the
backplane.
•Make sure that the backplane is securely and properly installed on the mother-
board to prevent damage to the system due to a power shortage.