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Expansion cards and expansion-card risers, Expansion card installation guidelines – Dell DR4000 User Manual

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The system should have already changed the value to reflect the newly

installed memory.

13 If the value is incorrect, one or more of the memory modules may not be

installed properly. Repeat step 2 through step 12 of this procedure, to

ensure that the memory modules are firmly seated in their sockets.

14 Run the system memory test in the system diagnostics. See "Running the

Embedded System Diagnostics" on page 140.

Expansion Cards and Expansion-Card Risers

Your system supports up to four PCI Express (PCIe) expansion cards installed

in connectors on an expansion-card riser.
Your system has an expansion-card riser 1 that provides three x4 Gen2 PCIe

expansion-card slots and one x8 Gen2 PCIe expansion-card slot.

CAUTION:

Expansion cards can only be installed in the slots on the

expansion-card riser. Do not attempt to install expansion cards directly into
the riser connector on the system board.

Expansion Card Installation Guidelines

• The expansion-card slots support full-height, half-length cards.
• The expansion-card slots are hot-swappable.
• PCI Express Generation 2 expansion cards are supported in all the slots.
• All the slots are x8 connectors.

CAUTION:

To ensure proper cooling, only one of the two expansion cards

can have a power consumption of greater than 15 W (up to 25 W maximum),
not including the integrated storage controller.

Table 3-2 provides a guide for installing expansion cards to ensure proper

cooling and mechanical fit. The expansion cards with the highest priority

should be installed first using the slot priority indicated. All other

expansion cards should be installed in card priority and slot priority order.

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