Installing A Gpu - Dell EMC PowerEdge R740 Installation And Service Manual

Figure 79. Removing GPU 2 and 3
4 Disconnect the GPU power cable from the GPU and system board.
5 If you are removing the GPU permanently, install a iller bracket over the empty slot opening, and close the expansion card latch.
NOTE: You must install a iller bracket over an empty expansion card slot to maintain Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) certiication of the system. The brackets also keep dust and dirt out of the system and aid in proper
cooling and airlow inside the system. The iller bracket is necessary to maintain proper thermal conditions.
Next step
Install a GPU.

Installing a GPU

Prerequisites
1 Follow the safety guidelines listed in
2 Remove the air shroud.
3 Remove the heat sink.
4 Remove the cooling fans
5 Unpack the GPU cards and the GPU kit.
6 Install the heat sink from the kit.
7 Install the risers.
8 Install the GPU air shroud on the system.
128 Installing and removing system components
Safety instructions..
and replace them with Install the cooling fans.