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Installing Your Gateway 960 or 980 Server into a Rackmount Cabinet - Page 5
Read this guide to learn how to:
I Install a Gateway rackmount server into a rackmount server cabinet. See "Installing your Gateway 960 or Gateway 980 server into a rackmount cabinet. I Convert a Gateway server into a rackmount-configured server. Installing Your Gateway Server into a
Rackmount Cabinet
This guide provides the information you need to install your server into a rackmount ...
Installing Your Gateway 960 or 980 Server into a Rackmount Cabinet - Page 6
... rail
2 rail assemblies
2 rackmount cabinet bracket sets (4 brackets)
10 screws for the inner rails
10 screws and hex head nuts for the Gateway 960 or Gateway 980 servers: I Rackmount rail kit. Install the rackmount rail kit on Gateway 960 or Gateway 980 servers. I Rackmount handle kit. Installing Your Gateway Server into a Rackmount Cabinet
Identifying parts in the accessory kit
There are...
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I Input supply
Check the power rating label on the back of your Gateway server operates within its specified maximum operating temperature range.
Safety-related rackmount installation instructions
Safety-related rackmount installation instructions
When your Gateway server is on the Server Companion CD (SCCD) that shipped with your server. The user's guide is installed in a closed or ...
Installing Your Gateway 960 or 980 Server into a Rackmount Cabinet - Page 8
... Cabinet
Converting your server to a rackmount server
You can convert your Gateway 960 or Gateway 980 server to the server, we recommend that the server is on page 14.
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If your server configuration may vary from Gateway pre-configured for rack installation, go to complete the following tasks in the following instructions, the general installation process will be...
Installing Your Gateway 960 or 980 Server into a Rackmount Cabinet - Page 9
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latch
Cover release latch
Lock
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5 Converting your server to a rackmount server
Removing the front cover, top and side panels, and feet
Tools you need to complete this task:
Phillips screwdriver
Needle-nose pliers
To remove the front cover:
1 Turn off your server, then disconnect the power cord and all other cables
connected...
Installing Your Gateway 960 or 980 Server into a Rackmount Cabinet - Page 13
...you mount it
in the server cabinet.
2 Unplug the data and power cables from the back the drive. 3 Press the release latch on each side of the diskette drive and temporarily pull the drive part of the way out to a rackmount server
Removing and rotating the ...the release latch on each side of the drive and pull the drive out. Converting your server to make more work space. www.gateway.com
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Installing Your Gateway Server into a Rackmount Cabinet
4 Repeat Step 2 and 3 for each drive. 5 Press the release latch on each side of the empty drive bay adapter and
pull the adapter out.
6 Repeat Step 5 for each empty drive bay adapter. 7 Remove the EMI shield.
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11 Make sure that the adapters lock into the bays.
4 Install the EMI shield. Make sure that the drives lock into the bays.
2 Plug the power and data... cables into the back of each drive. 3 Rotate the empty drive bay adapters for the rackmount orientation and slide the drives into
the drive bays.
Converting your server to a rackmount server
To rotate and install...
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2 rackmount handles
8 hex screws
#6-32 × 0.25"
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Installing Your Gateway Server into a Rackmount Cabinet
Rotating and installing the front cover drive faceplate
To rotate and install the front cover drive faceplate:
1 Press the faceplate release tabs inward to ...drive bays you need to complete this task:
Phillips screwdriver Rackmount kit parts you will not use.
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.... Warning
To avoid injury or dropping the server, we recommend that the server is on each side of the server.
2 Attach the rail assemblies to complete the following tasks in the following instructions, the general installation process will be similar.
Installing Your Gateway Server into a Rackmount Cabinet
Installing your server into a rackmount cabinet
Before adding the rails to your...
Installing Your Gateway 960 or 980 Server into a Rackmount Cabinet - Page 27
... of the cabinet until the inner rails lock into the outer rails.
Installing your server into a rackmount cabinet
4 Pull the server partially out of the front of the server, then push
the server back into the cabinet until the middle
rails lock into place.
6 Connect the power cord and device cables as required. www.gateway.com
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Installing Your Gateway 960 or 980 Server into a Rackmount Cabinet - Page 28
... the cabinet until the rackmount handles press
against the cabinet's front vertical mounting rails.
3 Install screws, supplied by the rackmount cabinet manufacturer, into a Rackmount Cabinet
Securing the server in the cabinet
Tools you need to complete this task:
Phillips screwdriver
Parts you need to complete this task: I 4 screws (provided by the rackmount cabinet manufacturer...
Installing Your Gateway 960 or 980 Server into a Rackmount Cabinet - Page 29
... and Driver Recovery window opens.
2 Click Documentation. The server document list opens. 3 Click the title of the document you want to help you use your server: I Documentation on the Server Companion CD (SCCD) I Gateway Web site
Server Companion CD
A comprehensive Gateway user's guide is available on the Server Companion CD (SCCD) that shipped with your server. To access the files manually...
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Installing Your Gateway Server into a Rackmount Cabinet
Gateway Web site
Gateway provides a variety of the eSupport Web site, click Take a Tour. The tour guides you use your system. Gateway's online support is available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week and provides the most current drivers, product specifications, tutorials and personalized information about your server.
Take a guided ...
Installing Your Gateway 960 or 980 Server into a Rackmount Cabinet - Page 31
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