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Installing an expansion card
1.
Wear an ESD wrist strap and make sure it makes good skin contact and is reliably grounded.
2.
Use a Phillips screwdriver to remove the mounting screw on the filler panel over the expansion
slot. Use a flat-head screwdriver to prize outwards the filler panel. Then, remove the filler panel.
Keep the filler panel for future use.
Figure 23 Removing the filler panel over an expansion slot
3.
Unpack the expansion card and perform the following steps:
a.
(Optional.) If the expansion card has an ejector lever, rotate out the ejector lever, as shown
by callout 1 in
b.
Gently push the expansion card into the slot along the guide rails until the expansion card
has good contact with the chassis, as shown by callout 2 in
c.
(Optional.) If the expansion card has an ejector lever, rotate in the ejector lever, as shown
by callout 3 in
d.
Use a Phillips screwdriver to tighten the captive screw on the expansion card to secure it in
the slot, as shown in
Figure 24 Installing an expansion card (LSWM4SP8PM)
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