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Safety instructions
Before working inside your system
Installing an expansion card
After working inside your system
Removing an expansion card
Prerequisites
1 Follow the safety guidelines listed in the Safety instructions section.
2 Follow the procedure listed in the Before working inside your system section.
3 Disconnect any cables connected to the expansion card or expansion card riser.
4 If installed, remove the expansion card riser.
Steps
1 Hold the expansion card by its edges and remove it from the expansion card riser connector.
2 If you are removing the card permanently, install a ller bracket in the empty expansion card slot and close the expansion card latch.
NOTE: You must install a ller bracket over an empty expansion card slot to maintain Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) certication of the system. The brackets also keep dust and dirt out of the system and aid in proper
cooling and airow inside the system.
Figure 29. Removing an expansion card from the expansion card riser
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expansion card riser 2 expansion card riser connector
3 expansion card latch 4 expansion card
Next steps
1 Install the expansion card.
2 Install the expansion card riser
3 Follow the procedure listed in the After working inside your system section.
Installing and removing system components
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