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Installing the adapter card – Dell PowerVault 715N (Rackmount NAS Appliance) User Manual

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The Broadcom® NetXtreme™ 10/100/1000 network adapter card enables you to connect

your system to a Gigabit Ethernet network. This card incorporates technology that transfers

data at a maximum rate of one gigabit per second.

This document contains the following sections:

Installing the adapter card

Removing the adapter card

Updating drivers

Installing the Adapter Card

The system has the capacity for one, low-profile PCI expansion card (see "Installing an

Expansion Card" in your Installation and Troubleshooting Guide).

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CAUTION: Before you perform this procedure, you must turn off the system and

disconnect it from its power source. For more information, see "Safety First—For

You and Your System" in "Troubleshooting Your System" in your Installation and

Troubleshooting Guide.

1 Turn off the system, including any attached peripherals, and disconnect the system

from the electrical outlet.

2 Remove the cover (see "Removing and Replacing the System Cover" in your

Installation and Troubleshooting Guide).

/K CAUTION: See "Protecting Against Electrostatic Discharge" in the safety

instructions in your System Information Aozumeni.

3 Open the expansion-card latch and remove the filler bracket.

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NOTICE:

Keep this bracket in case you need to remove the expansion card. Instaiiing a fiiier

bracket over an empty expansion siot is necessary to maintain Federai Communications
Commission (FCC) certification of the system. The brackets aiso keep dust and dirt out of the
system and aid in proper cooiing and airfiow inside the system.

- Without removing the riser card, insert the card-edge connector firmly into the

expansion-card connector on the riser card until the card is fully seated

(see Figure 1-1).

5 Close the expansion-card latch (see Figure 1-1).

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