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Installing a pci express x16 card – Dell OptiPlex GX280 User Manual

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If you are installing or replacing a PCI Express x16 card, see "

Installing a PCI Express x16 Card

," or if you are removing the

card, see "

Removing a PCI Express x16 Card

."

If you are installing or replacing a PCI Express x1 card, see "

Installing a PCI Express x1 Card

," or if you are removing the

card, see "

Removing a PCI Express x1 Card

."

If you are replacing either type of PCI Express card, remove the current driver for the card from the operating system.

Installing a PCI Express x16 Card

1. Follow the procedures in "

Before You Begin

."

2. If you replacing a PCI Express x16 card, remove the installed card:

a. Press the indented tab on the hinged lever with your thumb until you release the tab. Continue holding the lever

and pull the lever up.

1 hinged lever
2 indented tab (side view)

b. Press on the card lever away from the card connector.

c. Pull the card up and out of the card clip.