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Dell PowerEdge C4130 Owner's Manual

Removing the expansion card riser cage

Prerequisites

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.

  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. Remove the PCIe shroud. See removing the PCIe shroud.

    CAUTION: The expansion card riser cables must be disconnected from the system board or the NVLink board before removing the expansion card riser cage, to prevent pin damage in the PCIe connectors.

  4. If applicable, disconnect the expansion card riser cables from the system board or the NVLink board.

Steps

Holding the touch points, lift the expansion card riser cage from the riser connector on the system board.
Figure 1. Removing the expansion card riser cage
This figure shows removing the expansion card riser .
  1. touch point (4)
  2. expansion card riser cage
  3. riser connector on the system board

Next steps

  1. Install the expansion card riser, if applicable.
  2. Install the expansion card, if applicable.

    CAUTION: The expansion card riser cables must be connected to the system board or the NVLink board only after installing the expansion card riser cage, to prevent pin damage in the PCIe connectors.

  3. Install the expansion card riser cage.

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