Removing The Expansion Card Risers - Dell PowerEdge XE8640 Installation And Service Manual

NOTE: The expansion-card slots are not hot-swappable.
The following table provides guidelines for installing expansion cards to ensure proper cooling and mechanical fit. The expansion
cards with the highest priority should be installed first using the slot priority indicated. All the other expansion cards should be
installed in the card priority and slot priority order.
Table 60. Configuration 1: R1A+R4A
Supplier
Intel
Mellanox
Mellanox
Intel
Broadcom
Broadcom
Broadcom
Intel
Mellanox
Mellanox
Mellanox

Removing the expansion card risers

Prerequisites
1. Follow the safety guidelines listed in the
2. Follow the procedure listed in the
3. Remove the air shroud.
4. Disconnect any cables that are connected to the expansion card or the risers.
Steps
For Riser 1A and Riser 4A, first using a Phillips 2 screwdriver, loosen the blue thumb screws on the riser. Press the blue release
tab and holding the blue touch points, lift the expansion card riser from the riser connector on the system board.
96 Installing and removing system components
Card type Slot priority
NIC:100Gb 1, 3, 2, 4
NIC:100Gb 1, 3, 2, 4
NIC:25Gb 1, 3, 2, 4
NIC:25Gb 1, 3, 2, 4
NIC:100Gb 1, 3, 2, 4
NIC:25Gb 1, 3, 2, 4
NIC:25Gb 1, 3, 2, 4
NIC:25Gb 1, 3, 2, 4
InfiniBand 1, 3, 2, 4
InfiniBand 1, 3, 2, 4
InfiniBand 1, 3, 2, 4
Safety
Before working inside your
Maximum number of
cards
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
instructions.
system.
Slot generation
Gen4
Gen4
Gen4
Gen4
Gen4
Gen3
Gen4
Gen4
Gen5
Gen5
Gen4