IBM 419452u - Servers System X3250 M2 Xeon 3.0ghz Installation Manual page 35

Attention: When you install an adapter, make sure that it is completely and
correctly seated in the expansion slot in the riser card. Incomplete insertion
might cause damage to the riser card, system board, or the adapter when you
turn on the server.
7. Carefully grasp the adapter by its top edge or upper corners and align it with
the expansion slot in the riser card assembly; then, press the adapter firmly
into the expansion slot.
Adapter
bracket
Adapter
Important: Make sure that the U-shaped opening in the metal adapter bracket
engages the tab on the expansion-slot bracket.
8. Follow the cabling instructions, if any, that come with the adapter.
9. Reinstall the riser-card assembly. Make sure that the riser-card assembly is
fully seated in the riser-card connectors on the system board.
Power cable
10. If you have installed an optional PCI-X riser-card assembly in the server,
reconnect the riser-card power cable to the riser-card assembly.
11. If you are installing a ServeRAID-MR10i controller (2.5-inch drive models only),
complete the following steps:
a. Disconnect the existing SAS/SATA controller signal cable from the hard
disk drive backplane and from the controller; then, remove the cable from
the server.
PCI-X slot
Chapter 2. Installing optional devices
Expansion-slot
bracket
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