Dell Perc 5i Raid w/256MB Controller XT257 MX961 MN985

dell poweredge 2900 once the machine is powered off power cables removed we want to slide the server out of the rack and remove the top cover the perc 5 battery is at the top of the back on that riser in the first slot the battery just unclips and you take your new battery and just take the new battery and plug it into the wire you just unplug and drop the battery back into the holder on the riser pull all your old hardware out of the server and then install your cover back on the server so your server once it starts booting up you're going to get a warning saying that the battery is missing defective completely discharged that's okay it will charge itself it should go ahead and boot past this part if it does stop it's going to ask you if you want to import the foreign config and you want to choose yes you do not want to choose nvram once you hit yes it will pull the config off of your