Dell 840 manual Expansion Cards

4Connect 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)

5Close the system. See "Closing the System" on page 47.

6Stand the system upright.

7Reconnect 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.

Installing System Components

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