Re: rack-mount kit

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Piece of cake, done several of them.

First thing I usually do is reduce weight by labeling and then removing 
all the hard drives. Then remove the two power supplies. That makes the 
system much easier to handle.

Then you will remove all the black covers to start with. You will remove 
the metal bracket on top that has the control panel in it. Next pull out 
the entire tray with the DVD in it (two blue tabs) then pop out the 
blank and snap the control panel into that. You'll need to carefully 
reroute the control panel cable back into the box so you can connect it. 
 Now mount the rails to the sides and to the rack. Have someone help 
you slip it into the rack. Finally install the power supplies and the 
drives.

Note that you WILL have parts left over. :-)

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 5/10/2013 6:39 PM, Elden Fenison wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> We have a rack-mount kit for our IBM Power 520 Express that we'd like to install. It's an IBM part. The system is currently a free-standing vertical tower type.
>
> Anyone here ever do this?
>
> Any advice as to whether we should try doing it ourselves or just pay IBM to do it?
>
> While we've never done this before... we have people who've been inside their fair share of computer systems hardware.
>
> Thanks for the feedback. :)