Dell R510 Expansion Cards and Expansion-Card Risers, Expansion Card Installation Guidelines

5Press down and out on the ejectors on each end of the socket until the memory module pops out of the socket. See Figure 3-19.

Handle each memory module only on either card edge, making sure not to touch the middle of the memory module.

6Replace the cooling shroud. See "Installing the Cooling Shroud" on page 91.

7Close the system. See "Closing the System" on page 89.

8Reconnect 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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