Owners Manual

CAUTION: Many repairs may only be done by a certified service technician. You should only

perform troubleshooting and simple repairs as authorized in your product documentation, or as

directed by the online or telephone service and support team. Damage due to servicing that is

not authorized by Dell is not covered by your warranty. Read and follow the safety instructions

that are shipped with your product.

Steps

1. Align the end of the integrated storage-controller card opposite the connector with the integrated

storage-controller card holder.

2. Lower the connector side of the integrated storage-controller card into the integrated storage-

controller card connector on the system board.

Ensure that the tabs on the system board align with the screw holes on the integrated storage-

controller card.

3. Align the screws on the integrated storage-controller card cable with the screw holes on the

connector.

4. Tighten the screws to secure the integrated storage-controller card cable with the integrated

storage-controller card connector on the system board.

Next steps

1. Replace the expansion-card riser 1.

2. Replace the cooling shroud.

3. Follow the procedure listed in After working inside your system.

Expansion cards and expansion-card risers

NOTE: A missing or an unsupported expansion-card riser 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

Depending on your system configuration:

The following PCI Express generation 3 expansion cards are supported:

Table 11. Supported expansion cards

Riser PCIe slot Processor

connection

Height Length Link width Slot width

1 1 Processor 2 Low Profile Half Length x8 x16

1 2 Processor 2 Low Profile Half Length x8 x16

1 3 Processor 2 Low Profile Half Length x8 x16

2 4 Processor 2 Full Height Full Length x16 x16

2 5 Processor 1 Full Height Full Length x8 x16

3 (default) 6 Processor 1 Full Height Full Length x8 x16

3 (alternate) 6 Processor 1 Full Height Full Length x16 x16

3 (default) 7 Processor 1 Full Height Full Length x8 x16