Dell PowerVault NX3100 - Expansion Cards and Expansion-Card Risers

90 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.
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