Service Manual

Installing a PCI/PCIe card

NOTE: Before working inside your Embedded Box PC, read the safety information that shipped with your Embedded Box

PC and follow the steps in Before working inside your Embedded Box PC. After working inside your Embedded Box PC,

follow the steps in After working inside your Embedded Box PC. For more safety best practices, see the Regulatory

Compliance home page at www.dell.com/regulatory_compliance.

CAUTION: PCI/PCIe cards are fragile. Exercise care when handling the cards.

Topics:

• Prerequisites

• Procedure

• Post-requisites

Prerequisites

Follow step 1 to step 6 in “Removing the back cover”.

Procedure

Follow these steps to install a PCI or PCIe card into an empty PCI/PCIe card slot.

1. Remove the screws that secure the PCI/PCIe filler plate to the top cover.

a. chassis

b. PCI/PCIe filler plate

c. M3x5 countersunk screws (2)

2. Remove the screws that secure the PCI/PCIe filler-plate bracket to the chassis.

3. Remove the bracket from the chassis.

4. Remove the filler plate from the chassis.

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