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Expansion cards – Dell POWEREDGE 840 User Manual

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Installing System Components

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4 Connect the DC power cables to the following components:

POWER CONN connector on the backplane board (if applicable)

PWR_CONN and 12V connectors on the system board

Hard drives or SAS backplane.

Diskette drive (if applicable)

Optical drive (if applicable)

Tape backup drive (if applicable)

5 Close the system. See "Closing the System" on page 47.
6 Stand the system upright.
7 Reconnect the system to its electrical outlet and turn the system on, including any attached

peripherals.

Expansion Cards

Your system supports up to five full-length expansion cards, installed in connectors on a riser card. The
expansion slots are configured as follows:

Slot 1 is a x8 lane-width PCI-Express expansion slot.

Slot 2 is a x1 lane-width PCI-Express expansion slot.

Slots 3 and 4 are 3.3-V, 64-bit, 133-MHz PCI-X expansion slots.

Slot 5 is a 5-V, 32-bit, 33-MHz legacy PCI expansion slot.

Figure 3-18 shows the relative locations of the expansion-card slots.

NOTICE:

If you install a RAC card, it must be installed in PCI slot SLOT_5.