Installing A Cooling Fan; Expansion Cards And Expansion-Card Risers; Expansion Card Installation Guidelines - Dell DL4000 Owner's Manual

Installing a cooling fan

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 came with the product.
1. Open the system.
2. Align the plug at the base of the cooling fan with the connector on the system board.
3. Slide the cooling fan into the securing slots until the tabs lock into place.
4. Close the system.

Expansion cards and expansion-card risers

NOTE: A missing or an unsupported expansion-card riser logs an SEL event. It does not prevent
your system from powering on and no BIOS POST message or F1/F2 pause is displayed.

Expansion card installation guidelines

Your system supports PCI Express Generation 3 expansion cards.
NOTE: A missing or an unsupported riser logs an SEL event. It does not prevent your system from
powering on and no BIOS POST message or F1/F2 pause is displayed.
Riser PCIe Slot
1 1
1 2
3 3
NOTE: Both the processors must be installed to use riser 1 slots.
Table 2. Expansion-card installation priority
Card Priority Card Type
1 PERC H810/Qlogic 2562/
Emulex LPE12002
2 PERC H710P
3 Quad-port 1GbE
42
Processor Height
Connection
Processor 2 Low Profile
Processor 2 Low Profile
Processor 1 Low Profile
Length
Half Length
Half Length
Half Length
Slot Priority
1
internal slot
3
Link Slot Width
Width
x8 x16
x16 x16
x16 x16
Max Allowed
1
1
1