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Next steps
Complete the procedure listed in After working inside your system.
Expansion cards and expansion-card riser module
NOTE: A missing or an unsupported expansion-card riser module logs an SEL event. It does not
prevent your system from powering on and no BIOS POST message or F1/F2 pause is displayed.
Expansion card installation guidelines
NOTE: Only supported cards from Dell can be installed in the system.
Your system supports Generation 3 cards. The following table provides riser configurations for DSS 7500
systems:
Table 1. Expansion card slots available on the expansion-card riser module
Expansion-
card riser
module
PCIe slot on the
expansion-card
riser module
Processor
connection
Height Length Link
width
Slot
width
PCIE_G3_X8 1 Processor 2 Half Height Half Length x8 x8
PCIE_G3_X16 2 Processor 1 Full Height Half Length x16 x16
PCIE_G3_X8 3 Processor 1 Full Height Half Length x8 x8
PCIE_G3_X8 4 Processor 1 Half Height Half Length x8 x8
NOTE: The PCIE_G3_X8 and PCIE_G3_X16 are the two dierent types of risers supported on DSS
7500 systems. You can install an expansion card on the system board only using expansion-card
riser module.
NOTE: The expansion cards are not hot-swappable.
Sled B
Sled A
21 3 4
Figure 14. Expansion card slot allocation