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Expansion cards and expansion-card risers, Expansion card installation guidelines – Dell PowerVault NX3100 User Manual

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Installing System Components

5 Press down and out on the ejectors on each end of the socket until the

memory module pops out of the socket. See Figure 3-12.
Handle each memory module only on either card edge, making sure not to

touch the middle of the memory module.

6 Replace the cooling shroud. See "Installing the Cooling Shroud" on

page 69.

7 Close the system. See "Closing the System" on page 67.
8 Reconnect the system and peripherals to their power sources, and turn

them on.

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.
Depending on the configuration, your system may have either riser 1 or

riser 2:

• Expansion-card riser 1 provides three x4 Gen2 PCIe expansion-card slots

and one x8 Gen2 PCIe expansion-card slot.

• Expansion-card riser 2 provides one x4 Gen2 PCIe expansion-card slot and

one x16 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.