Expansion Cards And Expansion Card Riser; Expansion Card Installation Guidelines - Dell NX430 Owner's Manual

3. If installed, remove the cooling fan blank.
4. If required, remove the cooling shroud.
Steps
1. Lower the fan into the cooling fan bracket.
2. Connect the power cable to the power cable connector on the system board.
Next steps
1. Install the cooling shroud.
2. Follow the procedure listed in the After working inside your system section.
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Before working inside your system
After working inside your system

Expansion cards and expansion card riser

An expansion card in the computer is a add-on card that can be inserted into an expansion slot on the
computer system board or riser card to add enhanced functionality to the system through the expansion
bus.
NOTE: A System Event Log (SEL) event is logged if an expansion card riser is unsupported or
missing. It does not prevent your system from turning on and no BIOS POST message or F1/F2
pause is displayed.
NOTE: The expansion card riser is optional for systems with four hard drives.

Expansion card installation guidelines

Your system supports PCIe Express Generation 3 cards. The following table provides riser configurations
for NX430 systems:
Table 15. Expansion card slots available on the expansion card riser
PCIe slot on the
expansion card riser
LP SLOT 1
FH SLOT 2
Table 16. Expansion card slots available on the system board
PCIe slot on the system
board
PCIE_G3_X4
NOTE: The expansion cards are not hot-swappable.
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Height
Half Height
Full Height
Height
Half Height
Length Link width
Half Length x4
Half Length x8
Length Link width
Half Length x4
Slot width
x8
x16
Slot width
x8